Vimmerby is a small municipality in Småland that has much to offer; in addition to its rich cultural heritage from Astrid Lindgren, the municipality is also characterized by a diverse business community, strong local engagement, active associations, beautiful nature, and a peaceful environment.
Through our core values of Responsibility, courage, and imagination, we work to provide the best possible service and care to Vimmerby municipality's approximately 15,800 residents, businesses, and all who visit the municipality. These core values permeate the municipality's approach and working methods and are something everyone carries with them in their daily work.
1 position(s).
DUTIES
We are now seeking a support assistant for the Daily Activities unit Ekbacken.
Ekbacken is a daily activity facility where people with disabilities work on various tasks both outdoors and indoors. Ekbacken also has its own carpentry workshop. Daily activities should provide meaningful occupation, structure in everyday life, social community, and increased participation in community life for the users who participate.
The work tasks include support and mentoring of people with disabilities. This means you support users in carrying out work tasks such as carpentry, piece work, snow shoveling, grass cutting, machinery work, and similar tasks. Your role will be to lead work and assign tasks according to users' abilities and needs, as well as carry out work tasks together with the users. In this role, you will be supportive of users both individually and as a group. The work can involve heavy lifting and working both indoors and in outdoor environments.
Working hours are daytime, Monday - Friday
QUALIFICATIONS
We are looking for someone who has
• Education from a care and health program or other education deemed equivalent by the employer.
• B-category driver's license combined with experience driving cars with trailers.
• Work experience leading work teams and distributing work tasks
• Experience with machinery, carpentry, and gardening work, etc.
• Experience working with people with disabilities is considered an advantage
As a person, you have a positive attitude and a service-oriented approach. The work requires that you are calm, attentive, and flexible, and have the ability to adapt your working style based on the needs of the users. It is important that you are responsible and can work independently, while also having good collaboration skills. You must also have good knowledge of the Swedish language, both spoken and written.
This position is subject to background check.
You as an applicant must present a valid passport, national ID card, or personal certificate, as well as an extract from the police criminal record register before employment. Processing time is approximately two weeks, so please order the extract in good time via the link below:
https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/
In the selection process, we will place great emphasis on personal qualities and interest in the position. We value the qualities that diversity and gender balance bring to operations and therefore welcome applicants with different backgrounds and life experiences.
Employment form: Permanent employment.
Duration: Start date: 2026-10-01 or by agreement.
Vimmerby municipality uses competence-based recruitment to ensure a fair and inclusive process where each candidate's competence is in focus. We welcome applicants with different backgrounds and experiences and place great emphasis on personal suitability based on the competencies described in the job posting.
The position will be filled provided that no incumbent employee with preferential rights makes a claim to it.
To maintain quality and safety in our recruitment processes, certain background checks may be relevant before employment. We will inform you of which checks apply to this particular position in connection with the interview.
Before employment, you as a candidate must be able to present a valid ID document and personal certificate.
In connection with the recruitment work, we have made decisions regarding advertising channels and marketing. We therefore decline further contact from media/advertising sales, recruitment sites, and similar.
Welcome with your application!Vimmerby is a small municipality in Småland that has much to offer; in addition to its rich cultural heritage from Astrid Lindgren, the municipality is also characterized by a diverse business community, strong local engagement, active associations, beautiful nature, and a peaceful environment.
Through our core values of Responsibility, courage, and imagination, we work to provide the best possible service and care to Vimmerby municipality's approximately 15,800 residents, businesses, and all who visit the municipality. These core values permeate the municipality's approach and working…