Support Assistant for Daily Activities

Mölndals kommun · Full-time

Mölndal, Sweden

In Mölndal Municipality, we are proud to offer Sweden's most important jobs where we together create the best possible everyday life for our citizens. With knowledge, courage, and creativity, we develop our operations and contribute to making Mölndal an even better place to live and work. Welcome to make a difference in people's everyday lives every day! The Care and Services Department with its approximately 1500 employees is one of the departments in Mölndal Municipality and encompasses elderly care, functional support, and health and medical care. Katrineberg's daily activities focus on activity and experience as well as production and serve people with intellectual disabilities, acquired brain injuries, autism, and physical disabilities. Many of our activities take place indoors and we continuously work to develop new activities. Those of us who work here are a professional, courageous, and improvement-oriented group. We are now seeking new experienced and confident colleagues who want to be part of creating the best possible everyday life for our service users. 1 position(s). JOB RESPONSIBILITIES In the role of support assistant, you support the service users in their daily activities. Much of the work takes place indoors, but we also have activities that involve walks and other sensory stimulating activities. With the support of a support educator, you and your colleagues create meaningful and pedagogically planned activities. You support and guide the service users in their work and create conditions for meaningful occupation. We would like you to be curious about developing new activities with us, and it is positive if you enjoy gardening since it is an appreciated part of the service users' everyday life. The work often involves you working one-on-one with a service user, but always as part of a work team where we support each other. As a support assistant, you are a contact person for participants, draw up implementation plans, maintain contact with participants' networks, and have an ombudsman assignment. You work with social documentation in the Treserva documentation system and continuously follow up and revise the implementation plans. Working hours are scheduled during daytime and comprise 40 hours per week. We work with activity-adapted and flexible schedules. The schedule is continuously adjusted according to the needs of the operations. The positions may be coordinated with other units and services within Functional Support. We value your ideas and commitment and together we create conditions for development and an independent life for our service users. Does this sound like something for you? Apply today and become part of our fantastic team! QUALIFICATIONS We are looking for an engaged and experienced employee for daily activities with special expertise in autism and cerebral palsy. Requirements for the position: • Experience working with people with autism, cerebral palsy, and/or acquired brain injuries. • A secure, attentive, and professional low-key approach • Good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written. • Good documentation skills. • Flexible and solution-focused, with the ability and willingness to work at different workplaces within daily activities. It is an advantage if you have a driver's license (category B) as well as experience working with Timecare and Treserva. As a support assistant, you show respect and consideration for those you meet in your professional role. You have an open and positive attitude as you make the service user's needs the basis for your actions. You have an interest, willingness, and ability to help others and you strive to present solutions. In your work, it is important that you act independently based on what the situation requires without needing support from others. It is also important that you have the ability to work together with others to carry out tasks and reach goals. You understand the shared mission, act based on it, and contribute to the whole. Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability. In this recruitment process, we work with continuous selection and you may be contacted before the final application deadline. We look forward to your application! Employment type: Permanent employment. Duration: Start date according to agreement. Within the Care and Services Department, active work is underway to be able to offer employees their desired employment level with the aim of reducing involuntary part-time employment. In cases where the advertisement concerns a part-time position, our ambition is to eventually provide the opportunity for increased employment level. In recruitment, we consider the diversity perspective to achieve better representation of our operations. Do you need help applying for the position? Contact customer service at 0771-693 693. Before a possible employment, an acceptable extract from the police criminal record must be presented if the position includes user or patient-facing work. We will also check citizenship. If you are not a citizen of Sweden, EU, EEA, or Switzerland, you must be able to present a valid residence/work permit or be able to demonstrate that you are exempt from the requirement to have a work permit. Background checks may be conducted before employment. Certain positions require digital identification (e.g. BankID) to perform work tasks. The identification is only used to confirm your identity in the systems. We want to inform you that your application is a public document according to the principle of public access. If you have protected personal information, you should NOT apply through the system but contact the responsible recruiting manager for handling of your application. Contact details can be found in the advertisement. 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