Support Pedagogue for Children and Youth Residential Care (LSS)
Do you want a meaningful and challenging job where you can make a difference for children and young people every day? We are looking for you – a confident, experienced, and driven support pedagogue. Apply for this position with us and become an important part of our team! Who are we? Welcome to our children and youth residential care facilities under Section 9:8 LSS – an operation where you make a real difference every day. We are now expanding our operations and are therefore seeking committed support pedagogues who want to help shape our activities together with us. We are recruiting for two units: Ånestadsgatan 156 in Smedby, an established facility, and Vägstumpen 1 in Svärtinge, a new unit starting in autumn 2026. You will be assigned to one of these units, where you will play an important role in creating a strong and well-functioning team, guiding the work group in our core mission. You will have a close colleague in your work as a support pedagogue, as we have two primary support pedagogues responsible for each child and young person. Our operations have a total of seven residential places. Children and young people with various disabilities, backgrounds, and individual needs live in our facilities. The operation has high staff density and we have round-the-clock staffing with both awake night shifts and sleeping on-call duty. In our care, children and young people are always at the center, where we work purposefully to promote their independence and create a safe and adapted living environment based on their individual needs and circumstances. Your duties As a support pedagogue with us, you will have a varied role with great responsibility for matters directed toward our children and young people, and an important role in guiding the work group toward established goals. You initiate, work with, and implement various areas and issues that promote the facility's quality and development work together with the unit manager. The work in the facility is based on each individual's implementation plan. Our objective is to work so that each person becomes as independent and secure as possible to develop according to their abilities. You provide individually adapted interventions and maintain a professional approach. Together with the unit manager and the rest of the personnel group, consisting of support assistants and support pedagogues, you form a team around the children and young people living here. As a support pedagogue with us, you have a key role in our team for creating structure and clarity in work regarding safety and quality of life for our residents in their home. You have overall responsibility for social and educational matters concerning our children and young people, where you identify needs in an analytical and clear manner, plan, and implement various types of change work. You are part of close individual work, which means following our children and young people in their daily lives. The duties include everything that occurs in a home environment where the individual's needs guide the work. The work involves contact with many actors both internally and externally. This is important for maintaining holistic work around each individual, as the children and young people live permanently with us. Who are you? We are looking for you who are trained as a support pedagogue or who have other relevant education that the employer considers equivalent. To succeed in this role, we see that you have at least a few years of experience working as a support pedagogue where you have held a supervisory responsibility. Experience and knowledge of working with people who display various types of challenging behavior, such as physical and verbal outbursts and self-injurious behavior, is a requirement. We would like to see that you have experience and knowledge of socially disruptive behavior as it occurs within our target groups. We also see that you need experience with clarifying pedagogy, low-arousal interaction approaches, and neuropsychiatry. You have previous experience working with children and young people within LSS; it is positive if you have experience with PWS and NPF as well as knowledge of trauma and crisis management. It would be desirable if you can use sign language or sign support and/or are familiar with other forms of AAC. You have a high level of structure and a holistic perspective while maintaining a well-grounded approach linked to user and family-related issues within the LSS target group. It is important that you can cooperate and work based on decisions made in the operation. Taking initiative and striving to create good relationships and achieve results are competencies we consider important. Being a good role model for our children and young people as well as your colleagues is self-evident to you. You are receptive and adapt your communication to the person you meet, which also means you have high self-awareness where you are conscious of your feelings and actions and how this affects your work situations. As a person, you are empathetic and confident with a positive attitude and high commitment to the target group. You see possibilities from a professional perspective and want to contribute to developing the operation based on the objectives in place. You who apply have good computer skills and can express yourself well in Swedish, both orally and in writing. A B-category driver's license is a requirement. We look forward to your application! Position Information Number of vacancies: 6 Employment type: Permanent full-time employment Start date: 1 September or by agreement Work hours: Day/evening/weekends Remote work opportunity: To some extent for administrative work based on operational needs Application deadline: 14 June Contact: Unit Manager Emma Rothman, 011-152797, [email protected] Additional information: We have chosen to remove the personal letter and replace it with selection questions relevant to the position. This makes it easier to make an objective assessment of your competencies. You submit your CV as usual. An extract from the criminal record will be requested before employment can take place.
Support Assistant, Istidsgatan 27
Disability Care in Umeå Municipality aims to be a resource that, through proximity and collaboration, unlocks and strengthens people's ability to live independently. Istidsgatan 27 is a service residence within LSS (the Act Concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments). Here, 14 residents with intellectual and physical disabilities of varying ages live in their own apartments and share common spaces. We are now seeking a new colleague for our residence—could you be the one we're looking for? Your responsibilities You will guide and provide support and care to people with intellectual and physical disabilities in their daily lives. You will work long-term and goal-oriented to create a secure home environment and a meaningful everyday life and leisure time for our residents. You will offer individual, social, and practical support to enable and utilize the person's own abilities, thereby creating conditions for independence. Common work tasks include assisting residents with approved services such as meal preparation, cleaning, laundry, personal hygiene/care, medication management, and social activities. The work also includes documentation, record-keeping in Treserva, and working goal-oriented with individual implementation plans to increase goal fulfillment. The workplace may involve smoking, heavy lifting, and threat and violence situations. To create security and stability for those living with us and to make threat and violence situations manageable, it is important to follow routines and to cooperate within the work team. Working hours are scheduled for day/evening/weekends and on-call combinations. Joint planning occurs between our activities within Disability Care. About you As a person, you are calm and confident and have an easy time following routines. You have good collaboration skills and a professional manner toward residents, family members, and other stakeholders. You are engaged and willing to share our values and work toward established goals and continuous improvements. You naturally create and maintain structure and contribute to the development of the operation. We place great emphasis on personal suitability. In order for you to communicate with residents, family members, and colleagues, write and access care documentation, and receive medication delegation, you must have good knowledge of the Swedish language in both spoken and written form. Requirements: A healthcare and nursing program, children and leisure program, social work program, or other education that the employer deems equivalent Experience working in healthcare and care Meritorious: Experience working within disability care Your application To ensure that candidates called for interviews are those who best meet the requirements and qualifications for the position, we use selection questions. The questions are designed based on these requirements and qualifications. It is therefore important that you answer the questions thoroughly and that the competence you indicate is supported by information in your CV. Incomplete or insufficient answers may result in your application not proceeding in the process. We would appreciate it if you would attach a CV and a personal letter. Selection and interviews are conducted on an ongoing basis, so please submit your application today. Before offering employment, we ask you to provide an extract from the police's criminal record register. This is done as a final step in the recruitment process. NOTE! Do you have protected personal information? Please contact recruitment support at 090-16 10 99 or [email protected] and they will help you with a secure application process. We look forward to receiving your application! About Umeå Municipality Umeå Municipality is the region's largest employer with over 13,000 important employees. Our organization is divided into nine administrations, and together we work to make Umeå grow with care. Our value base is built on citizen focus, openness, trust, and continuous improvements. Working with us, you will be part of socially important assignments where you contribute to Umeå continuing to be safe, secure, and fun. Umeå is northern Sweden's largest city with a rich range of experiences and opportunities. We are an association and culture city that offers a richer life even outside of work. Here you can learn what it is like to live and work in Umeå: Move - Umeå Municipality We are growing and perhaps we need you? Want more? We offer fair terms, good benefits, and excellent development opportunities for lifelong learning, as well as work that is important for everyone who lives and works here. We look forward to hearing from you.
Support Assistant at Backenvägen, Disability Care Services
Disability Care Services in Umeå Municipality aims to be a resource that, through proximity and cooperation, unlocks and strengthens people's ability to live independent lives. Backenvägen 186 is a group home under the LSS (Act on Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments) with a focus on social psychiatry. The home accommodates 8 older residents who require support and assistance 24/7 in their daily lives. We are now looking for a new colleague to join our team! Your Responsibilities As a support assistant, you will support individuals with mental and physical disabilities in their daily lives. You will provide individualized, social, and practical support to enable and utilize each person's own abilities, thereby creating the conditions for independence. Common tasks include care and support work, assisting with daily activities, personal hygiene, and medication management. Your work will also include documentation, record-keeping, and work with implementation plans. The role requires planning and the ability to be pedagogical and solution-focused, as unexpected situations can arise. In daily work, you will spend much time motivating and encouraging residents. We use low-affective approaches in our workplace as there can be instances of threats and violence, primarily verbal. - Working hours are scheduled for day/evening shifts and weekends - Heavy lifting occurs; lifting aids must be used - Smoking takes place at the facility, so you should not have allergies to it - Coordination with other disability care services may take place About You You have a strong ability to collaborate and maintain professional conduct toward residents, family members, and other stakeholders. You are engaged and willing to share our values, work toward established goals, and pursue continuous improvements. We place great emphasis on personal suitability. To communicate with residents, family members, and colleagues, write and access care documentation, and receive medication delegation, you must have good Swedish language skills in both speech and writing. Requirements: Trained nursing assistant or other education deemed equivalent by the employer Experience working in care and support, for example in LSS housing or elderly care Meritorious: Experience working with residents in social psychiatry Trained nursing assistant with a focus on psychiatry Experience with low-affective approaches in response to threats and violence situations Other Information To ensure that candidates called for interviews best meet the requirements and qualifications for the position, we use screening questions. The questions are designed based on these requirements and qualifications. It is therefore important that you answer the questions thoroughly and that the competencies you state are supported by information in your CV. Incomplete or inadequate answers may result in your application not proceeding further in the process. NOTE! Do you have protected personal information? Please contact Recruitment Support at 090-16 10 99 or [email protected], and they will help you with a secure application process. Before a job offer, an extract from the police's criminal record register will be requested as a final step in the recruitment process. We look forward to receiving your application! About Umeå Municipality Umeå Municipality is the region's largest employer with over 13,000 important employees. Our organization is divided into nine departments, and together we work to ensure Umeå grows with care. Our values are based on citizen focus, openness, trust, and continuous improvements. Working with us, you will be part of socially important assignments where you contribute to Umeå remaining safe, secure, and enjoyable. Umeå is Northern Sweden's largest city, with a rich range of experiences and opportunities. We are a city of associations and culture that offers a richer life outside of work as well. Here you can experience what it is like to live and work in Umeå: Move - Umeå Municipality We are growing, and we may be looking for just you? Want to be part of something more? We offer good conditions, excellent benefits, and strong development opportunities for lifelong learning, as well as jobs that are important to everyone who lives and works here. We look forward to hearing from you.
Support Assistant/Caregiver for Disability Services
We are now recruiting 1-3 support assistants/caregivers for Disability Services at Lindesberg Municipality. Today there are 15 operations within disability services; group homes, service housing, short-term care, day activities, and several personal assistance groups. Lindesberg Municipality is a smoke-free workplace. 3 position(s). JOB DUTIES In our group and service housing facilities under LSS, adults with functional variations live in their own apartments and have the opportunity for social interaction in common areas. We create conditions for security, personal development, and good living conditions by offering support and services to individuals. The individual's right to participation and self-determination is a cornerstone in working with people with functional variations and permeates all operations. Through close work with the individual, great demands are placed on staff's respect for the person's integrity and autonomy. Job tasks that may occur include support with personal care, routine household tasks, support with leisure activities, and support in daily routines. The staff team consists of support assistants and caregivers. The positions include day/evening/weekend/night shifts and in some operations also on-call duties. QUALIFICATIONS You are engaged, empathetic, and confident in yourself with a great ability to read what is required in different situations. You must have great flexibility in your work approach as your job duties vary from day to day. Creating and following routines and structures for and with the individual is essential in working with people with functional variations, which requires that you are able to set boundaries and be a source of security for the individuals. You are trained in a people-care profession, for example as a nursing assistant or caregiver, or have training that is considered equivalent. Experience working in operations for people with physical and mental disabilities is a merit. A B-category driver's license is required and manual transmission is a merit. Experience with medication delegation. Driver's license/ID document must be presented at interview. To be hired, you must provide a certificate from the criminal record register. Employment form: Permanent employment. Duration: Permanent. Trade union representatives can be reached via the municipality's switchboard, phone 0581-810 00. We only accept applications via Offentliga jobb. We decline contact from recruitment agencies and staffing companies. Lindesberg is characterized by a positive and strong faith in the future. We invest for the future and want to grow. We are looking for engaged employees who want to be part of developing Lindesberg. Collaboration is a guiding principle and we want to strengthen it in every part of our organization. Today, approximately 2,100 employees work on various tasks to provide residents with good service of high quality. Welcome to develop further with us!
Support Assistant
Your Workplace The Disability Services Section is seeking 2 support assistants for two SOL-funded residential facilities. Your New Job As a support assistant, you will provide support to residents based on their individual needs and circumstances. Building relationships is therefore an important part of the work, as it contributes to a safe and stable environment. Since you help residents manage their daily lives and all the challenges that may arise, both inside and outside the home, your role is to create good conditions for as independent a life as possible for the individual. Being calm/empathetic/stress-resilient is important when working with people, as no two days are the same. The profession requires the ability to handle stressful moments and be action-oriented when various situations arise. Empathy is an important quality as it provides the opportunity to see things from the resident's perspective and thus understand the other person. Since residents have different issues, it is important to be able to work pedagogically and be clear in your approach/communication. This is to provide the right support to the resident in question and create structure in their daily life with conditions for predictability. We are looking for someone who is loyal and respects the decisions made within the work group, and who understands the importance of standing behind collective work. You are a person who dares to take initiative and is open to actively participating in the process of developing and improving working methods that benefit the residents. Together with the team, you contribute to creating a work environment where mutual trust and collaboration are central to achieving common goals. Common Work Tasks Support and guidance in the individual's daily life Participate in various activities together with the individual Documentation Your Competence Requirements Trained support assistant or other education/competence that the employer considers equivalent. Able to work inconvenient hours day/evening and sleeping night shifts (on-call nights). Good knowledge of Swedish in both spoken and written form. Meritorious Good computer skills. Experience from similar work. B-driver's license. We Are Looking for You As a person, you are stable, flexible, and have good empathetic abilities. You should be able to build trusting relationships and be responsive to the individual's needs. You are loyal, have pedagogical insight, and are skilled at communicating verbally. To thrive in the role, you need good collaboration skills and be able to adapt to different situations. You are also an attentive and engaged person with great respect for our residents. You have a positive view of people and the ability to build good relationships. We also value that you are positive toward new thinking and see opportunities, as well as having a willingness to contribute to the development and improvement of the operation. How the Recruitment Process Works Interviews may take place on a rolling basis. We ask that you attach a CV and cover letter to your application. Grades/certificates do not need to be submitted. We will ask you to provide these if you are called for an interview. Östersunds Municipality has considered the choice of advertising channels prior to posting and therefore declines contact from recruitment firms and advertising sales representatives. What Do We Offer? Östersunds Municipality offers you benefits such as paid vacation from the first year of employment, vacation exchange, wellness allowance, or wellness hours. Through our benefits portal, you can access independent pension advice and a variety of discounts and offers. You can also receive fast and professional support from various specialists, such as psychologists, lawyers, and economists, through the Personal Support service. You can read more about our benefits on our website: https://www.ostersund.se/naringsliv-och-arbete/jobba-hos-oss/sa-har-jobbar-vi/lon-och-formaner.html About the Care and Social Services Administration Within the Care and Social Services Administration, we apply voluntary employment degree for permanent employees. This means that as an employee, you have the right to work up to full-time within other operations in your sector. This gives you a chance for variation, new experiences, and a broader network. We care about creating a flexible work environment where your wishes and the operation's needs are met. Working from the heart with us at the Care and Social Services Administration means that you contribute to creating simpler, richer, and safer lives for the residents of Östersund. We work with people of all ages and strive to always make a difference in everyday life. It matters. Really.
Night Support Assistants for Children and Youth Residential Facilities (LSS)
Do you want a meaningful and challenging job where you can make a difference for children and young people every day? We are looking for an experienced, empathetic, and driven support assistant. Apply for our night shift and become an important part of our team! Who are we? Welcome to our children and youth residential facilities under 9:8 LSS – an organization where you make a real difference every day. We are expanding our operations and are therefore seeking engaged support assistants who want to help shape our facilities together with us. With us, you will have the opportunity to contribute to a safe, developmental, and professional environment – both for the children and young people we work with and for your colleagues. We are recruiting for two units: Ånestadsgatan 156 in Smedby, an established facility, and Vägstumpen 1 in Svärtinge – a new unit starting in autumn 2026. You will be part of one of the units, where you become an important part of creating a strong and well-functioning team. Our facilities have seven residential places in total. Children and young people with various disabilities, backgrounds, and individual needs live in our facilities. The organization has a high staff-to-resident ratio and we have staffing around the clock with both awake night shifts and on-call sleeping shifts. With us, the children and young people are always at the center, where we work purposefully to promote their independence and create a safe and adapted residential environment based on their individual needs and conditions. Your tasks Work in the facility is based on each individual's implementation plan. Our goal is to work so that each individual becomes as independent and secure as possible to develop according to their abilities. You provide individually adapted interventions and maintain a professional approach. Together with the rest of the personnel group, consisting of support assistants and support pedagogues, you form a team around the individuals living here. As an employee with us, you have a significant role in our team to create security and quality of life for our residents in their home. You are part of the close individual work that involves following our children and young people in their daily lives. The tasks include everything that occurs in a home environment where the individual's needs determine the work. The work involves contact with many stakeholders both internally and externally. This is important to maintain holistic work around each individual since the children and young people live permanently with us. Who are you? We are looking for someone who is a support assistant or has equivalent training focused on disabilities, with experience and competence in working in facilities for people with disabilities or other relevant training deemed equivalent. Experience and knowledge of working with people with various types of challenging behavior such as physical and verbal outbursts and self-harm is a requirement. We particularly appreciate experience and knowledge of socially destructive behavior as it occurs within our target groups. We also see that you need to have experience with visual teaching methods, low-arousal interaction, and neuropsychiatry. We view positively previous experience and work with children and young people within LSS as well as work with special diagnoses such as PWS and within NPF, and knowledge of trauma and crisis management. Desirable qualifications include knowledge of sign language or sign support and/or experience with other forms of AAC. You have a high level of organization and a holistic perspective while maintaining a well-grounded approach related to user and family-related issues within the LSS target group. It is important that you can collaborate and work based on decisions made in the organization. We consider that you take initiative and strive to create good relationships and achieve results to be important competencies. Being a good role model for our children and young people as well as your colleagues is self-evident to you. You are responsive and adapt your communication to the person you meet, which also means you have high self-awareness where you are conscious of your feelings and actions and how this affects your work situations. Night shift work requires that you are comfortable working independently. You see what needs to be done and take initiative in your daily work, which includes being able to implement and develop new ideas and methods. You are flexible and can adjust your approach and adapt yourself when the situation requires it. You find it easy to prioritize and find solutions in different situations. You are experienced in working with risk assessments and can see both the big picture and details. As a person, you are calm and secure with a positive attitude and a commitment to our target group. You see possibilities from a professional perspective and want to contribute to developing the organization based on the goals that exist. You have good computer skills and can express yourself well in Swedish, both verbally and in writing. A B-category driver's license is desirable. We welcome your application! Job information Number of vacant positions: 3 Type of employment: Permanent full-time Start date: September 1st or by agreement Work hours: Awake night shift Remote work opportunity: No Application deadline: June 14th Contact: Unit Manager Emma Rothman, 011-152797, [email protected] Other information: We have chosen to remove the personal letter and replace it with selection questions relevant to the position. This makes it easier to make an objective assessment of your competence. You submit your CV as usual. Register check: Background register checks are conducted as part of the recruitment process.
Part-Time Support Assistants at Unikas LSS Residential Care - Sporredsvägen 24
About Unika Sporredsvägen 24 Sporredsvägen 24 is a residential care facility specialized in supporting individuals with a rare condition called PWS. The operation launched in spring and we are expanding our staff team further by fall. The group home has 6 apartments for adults over 18 years old for both men and women. Sporredsvägen 24 is located in a wonderfully calm and peaceful environment in Kållered, yet only a 10-minute walk from public transportation. About the Role of Support Assistant As a Support Assistant, you will provide individually tailored support to people with functional variations, with the goal of promoting their independence and well-being in daily life. You will assist residents in their daily routines and activities based on their needs and abilities, always using their personal implementation plan as a starting point. We work with a salutogenic and pedagogical approach, where we focus on each individual's unique strengths and resources. The goal is for residents to achieve as much independence as possible and to live a meaningful life with high quality of life. As a Support Assistant, you work using clarifying pedagogy and low-arousal interaction to create security and predictability in residents' everyday lives. At the same time, we have a strong focus on working professionally and efficiently within the facility's resources and budget. Qualifications You are relationship-building, calm, stable, and can maintain a realistic perspective on situations that arise in daily work. You have good collaboration skills and relate to others in a responsive manner, and enjoy cooperating with others. You are an independent, humble, and responsible person who is passionate about care work and can understand individuals' needs. We place great emphasis on personal suitability. Requirements: • Very good ability in Swedish in both speech and writing. • Good computer skills and experience with documentation. • Experience working in healthcare and care services. • Secondary education such as a children's and leisure program, healthcare and care program, or post-secondary education such as support pedagogy, social pedagogy, or university education in a relevant field. • Valid driver's license. Merits if you also have: • Experience in psychiatry, AAC, and low-arousal interaction. • Experience working with complex support needs. Employment Terms Employment Type: Fixed-term employment as needed Degree of Service: Varying Working Hours: Irregular hours distributed Monday-Sunday, day, evening, and overnight on-call shifts. Start Date: By agreement; we view favorably candidates who can start soon. Collective Agreement: We are bound by a collective agreement with Vårdföretagarna/Kommunal, Sector E. What Can We Offer You? Attendo is a reliable employer that can offer you good opportunities to take on more responsibility or move into new roles. We offer our employees training opportunities, collective agreement benefits, wellness programs, and several other benefits and staff discounts through our benefits portal AttendoPlus, in collaboration with Benifex. About the Recruitment Process Before any employment, an excerpt from the criminal record together with valid photo ID must be presented. If you are called for an interview, you will need to provide proof that you have the right to work in Sweden by presenting EU/EES citizenship or a valid work permit. Final application deadline 260824, but selection and interviews are ongoing, so do not delay your application. We conduct random alcohol and drug testing for our employees. About Attendo/Unika Unika is part of Attendo, one of the Nordic region's largest care companies founded in 1985. We operate within LSS. Our values of care, commitment, and competence guide us daily in our work to ensure that everyone experiences well-being, participation, community, and joy in their work. Welcome with your application! Together for a meaningful everyday! For questions about the position, please contact: Christer Björkman [email protected]
Support Assistants at Unikas LSS Housing - Sporredsvägen 24
About Unika Sporredsvägen 24 Sporredsvägen 24 is a group housing facility specializing in support for a unique functional variation called PWS. The facility launched in spring and will be expanding our staff team by fall. The group home has 6 apartments for adults over 18 years old, accommodating both men and women. Sporredsvägen 24 is located in a wonderfully peaceful and calm environment in Kållered, yet only a 10-minute walk from public transportation. About the Role of Support Assistant As a support assistant, you will provide individually tailored support to people with functional variations, with the goal of promoting their independence and well-being in daily life. You will support residents in their daily routines and activities based on their needs and abilities, always using their personal implementation plan as your starting point. We work with a salutogenic and pedagogical approach, drawing on each individual's unique strengths and resources. The goal is for residents to achieve as much independence as possible and live a meaningful life with high quality of life. As a support assistant, you will work using clarifying pedagogy and low-arousal interaction to create security and predictability in residents' everyday lives. At the same time, we have a strong focus on working professionally and efficiently within the facility's resources and budget. Qualifications You are relationship-building, calm, stable, and can maintain a realistic perspective on situations that arise in daily work. You have good collaboration skills and relate to others in a responsive manner, and you enjoy working with others. You are an independent, humble, and responsible person who is passionate about care work and can recognize individual needs. We place great importance on personal suitability. Requirements: Very good proficiency in Swedish, both spoken and written. Good computer skills and experience with documentation. Experience working in health and care. Upper secondary education such as child and recreation program, health and care program, or post-secondary education such as support pedagogue, social pedagogue, or higher education in a relevant field. Driver's license. Meritorious if you also have: Experience in psychiatry, AAC, and low-arousal interaction. Worked with complex support needs. Employment Terms Employment Type: Permanent position starting with a 6-month probationary period. Position: 75-80% Scheduling: Irregular schedule Monday-Sunday, day, evening, and night shifts. Start Date: By mutual agreement; we view it positively if you can start soon. Collective Agreement: We are bound by the collective agreement with Vårdföretagarna/Kommunal, Sector E. What Can We Offer You? Attendo is a reliable employer that can offer you excellent opportunities to take on more responsibility or move into new roles. We offer training opportunities, collective agreement benefits, wellness benefits, and several other benefits and employee discounts through our benefits portal AttendoPlus, in collaboration with Benifex. About the Recruitment Process Before any employment, an extract from the criminal record registry along with valid photo identification must be presented. If you are called for an interview, you will need to demonstrate that you have the right to work in Sweden by presenting EU/EES citizenship or a valid work permit. Application deadline August 24, 2026, but selection and interviews are ongoing, so don't delay your application. We use random alcohol and drug testing for our employees. About Attendo/Unika Unika is part of Attendo, one of the Nordic region's largest care companies, founded in 1985. We operate within LSS. Our values of care, commitment, and expertise guide us daily in our work so that everyone experiences well-being, participation, community, and work satisfaction. Welcome with your application! Together for a meaningful everyday life! For questions about the position, please contact: Christer Björkman, [email protected]
Haninge LSS Housing Seeking Temporary Staff
Do you have ideas for the future and are you driven by challenges? In Haninge, you'll develop alongside committed colleagues who want to make a difference today. Right now, one of the most ambitious transformation initiatives in our municipality's history is underway. We're building a new city, approximately 20 minutes from central Stockholm. Join us on this journey. Do you want to be part of our development journey to become an accessible, visible, and knowledge-based social service with a preventative approach? At our social administration, you'll contribute to future-proofing social services. We work based on our target groups' needs within individual and family care and disability services, so that residents of Haninge can live independent lives. We focus on results and what creates value for those we serve. Welcome to us! We are seeking temporary staff for Group and Service Housing LSS We work on behalf of the procurement unit. We provide support to people with neuropsychiatric variations, autism spectrum conditions, and intellectual disabilities who live in supported housing in Haninge municipality. Your task as a support assistant is based on LSS, where the guiding principles for how services are delivered are self-determination, influence, accessibility, participation, continuity, and a holistic approach. The goal is for the person to receive the support they need to live as independently as possible with good quality of life. Your Task The work is varied and involves offering individually tailored support, which may include assisting users in various activities, personal care, cooking, scheduling, and support in social situations. As a support assistant, you have good self-awareness and knowledge of maintaining a professional approach and building good relationships with individuals. What We're Looking For You who are applying are expected to be able to work as needed and meet these formal requirements: - Adequate education or ongoing education, such as nursing assistant or other pedagogical education that we consider equivalent - Experience working with people who have been granted LSS services - Knowledge of clarifying pedagogy and low-affective approaches - Good Swedish language skills, both spoken and written, as we have documentation responsibilities - Ability to work irregular hours, which includes work on weekdays and holidays - mornings, afternoons, and evenings, as well as on-call sleeping shifts or awake night shifts It is important to us that you are a stable person with an empathetic approach. You are flexible, take initiative in your work, and take personal responsibility for your work situation. We place great emphasis on personal suitability and it is essential that you can collaborate with the rest of the team, guardians/administrators, relatives, and other partners. What We Can Offer You Developing work that engages and challenges, alongside knowledgeable colleagues and other partners. Please visit our website to learn more about our operations: www.haninge.se Other Information Employment can only take place after a satisfactory police background check has been obtained. To ensure quality in the recruitment process and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask that you apply via the application link. Contact: Sofia Björklund - Group Leader, tel: 08-606 49 78 Welcome with your application! In this recruitment, we have already made our choices regarding advertising channels and partners. We kindly but firmly decline any assistance with recruitment from external parties. Employment can only take place after a satisfactory police background check has been obtained. During the summer period weeks 27-32, response times may be longer than usual. Thank you for your patience. Haninge Municipality views diversity as a strength and welcomes all applicants. Our competency-based recruitment methodology aims to focus on the individual's qualifications and thereby also counteract discrimination. Information about employment terms and benefits can be found on our website. You can read more about what it means to be employed by Haninge Municipality. If you want to know more about us, you are warmly welcome to visit haninge.se/karriär
Support Assistants, Eastern Region, Disability Care
Disability Care Services in Umeå Municipality strives to be a resource that, through proximity and collaboration, unlocks and strengthens people's ability to live independent lives. Our operations are beautifully located in the newly built Tomtebogård area near Nydalasjön. An area that offers opportunities for activities year-round such as outdoor gym, summer café, swimming area, ski trails, mini golf, fishing, and much more. We are now seeking several support assistants to join our team, working together to provide our service users with a safe home environment and a meaningful life. With us, you will have many colleagues around you, so it's an advantage if you thrive in a larger group. For us, it's important that we have fun together, support each other, and look forward to both the workday and the challenges and opportunities it may offer. Your Work Tasks In your work, you will guide and support people with physical, mental, and intellectual disabilities in their daily lives. You will work to help the individual participate in a functioning everyday life and have meaningful leisure time and/or activities. The work includes hygiene and care tasks, heavy lifting and transfers, as well as common household chores such as cleaning, laundry, and cooking. Your work will require excellent attention to detail. You will support service users in various activities such as exercise, swimming, cinema visits, and playing games. In your role, you will daily plan, implement, document, follow up, and evaluate interventions both independently and in collaboration with others. This places high demands on your administrative skills and your ability to plan and organize work. You also need to feel comfortable working with computers, as it is a natural part of the work tasks. You are also expected to be involved in creating and establishing structure and routines in the operations and then actively work to prevent the risk of challenging behavior, while remaining flexible, thinking on your feet, and handling unexpected situations. Work hours are scheduled for day/evening shifts and every other weekend. Coordination meetings with other operations occur. - Heavy lifting occurs; transfer aids must be used. - A cat occasionally visits the workplace, so you should not have allergies. About You You have a strong ability to collaborate, and it is of utmost importance that you have a professional approach toward service users and other people in our users' networks. You are pedagogical, engaged, and willing to share our values and work toward established goals as well as work with continuous improvements. You are driven by a desire to see development and change and work accordingly. Your work style is characterized by flexibility, consistency, and security. You should have great patience and be able to work toward long-term goals without losing focus. In order to communicate with service users and their networks, write and access care documentation, and receive medication delegation, you must have good knowledge of the Swedish language, both spoken and written. You need to be able to communicate clearly and directly with service users while standing firm on decisions that have been made. Sometimes the pace can be high, so it is important that you can remain calm, manage stress well, and think quickly when needed. In this position, it is of utmost importance that you are solution-oriented and do not get stuck in situations. You should also have a positive view of challenges and enjoy working with them. Great weight will be placed on personal suitability. Requirements: Care and health program, children and leisure program, social worker program, or other education deemed equivalent by the employer Experience working in care and health services, such as in LSS housing or social psychiatry Meritorious: Experience in pedagogical work Experience working with people with autism Experience working with people with self-harming behavior Experience with low-intensity support when managing challenging behavior Other Two permanent positions, full-time, starting as soon as possible by agreement. Two temporary positions, full-time, starting as soon as possible until January 31, 2026. To ensure that candidates called for interview are those who best meet the requirements and qualifications for the position, we use screening questions. The questions are designed based on these requirements and qualifications. It is therefore important that you answer the questions thoroughly and that the competence you state is supported by information in your CV. Incomplete or insufficient answers may result in your application not moving forward in the process. NOTE! Do you have protected personal information? Please contact Recruitment Support at 090-16 10 99 or at [email protected], and they will help you with a secure application process. Before an employment offer, we ask you to provide an excerpt from the police criminal record. This is done as a final step in the recruitment process. Welcome with your application! Follow Umeå Municipality on LinkedIn! About Umeå Municipality Umeå Municipality is the region's largest employer with over 13,000 important employees. Our organization is divided into nine departments, and together we work to ensure that Umeå grows with care. Our values are based on citizen focus, openness, trust, and continuous improvements. Working with us, you will be involved in socially important assignments where you contribute to Umeå remaining safe, secure, and enjoyable. Umeå is Northern Sweden's largest city with a rich array of experiences and opportunities. We are an association and cultural city that offers a richer life outside of work as well. Here you can learn what it is like to live and work in Umeå: Move - Umeå Municipality We are growing and perhaps we're looking for just you? Do you want more? We offer fair terms, good benefits, and excellent development opportunities for lifelong learning, as well as work that is important for all those who live and work here. We look forward to hearing from you.
Monthly Temporary Position as Personal Assistant
Do you want meaningful work where you make a difference in people's everyday lives? We are now looking for monthly temporary staff within personal support services in the Department for Functional Support. With us, you will meet children, youth, and adults with various support needs and life situations who may display challenging behavior. Your task is to create safety, inclusion, and conditions for a meaningful everyday life based on each individual's needs and abilities. Work tasks vary between different cases but include personal care, educational support, assistance with communication and social interaction, activities, documentation, and common household tasks. In some operations, work with medical devices or extensive care may occur. Your work tasks include medication management according to delegation. You work where the assistance user is, which means you are in the assistance user's home or at activities outside the home. Work hours are scheduled during day, evening, weekends, weekdays, awake nights, or sleeping on-call shifts. When you work with us as a monthly temporary employee, you will receive a monthly contract with 100% employment during the employment period. You will work according to a fixed schedule planned based on the operation's needs. Within Personal Support, we work with co-planning, which means work can occur in other cases. As a temporary hourly employee, you make yourself available in our booking system when you wish to work. When needs arise in the operation, our staffing planners book you for shifts and you are contacted based on your availability. Qualifications To work as a temporary employee within functional support, you must be at least 18 years old in accordance with regulations on the working environment for minors (AFS 2023:2 6 kap. 56, 8 §§). It is a requirement that you can demonstrate a grade in Swedish 1 or Swedish as a Second Language 1. If not, you may be offered a language test via EducateIt. It is advantageous if you have: education or ongoing education in, for example, support assistant, nursing assistant, care and welfare, pedagogy, or behavioral science experience working within functional support, care and welfare, or personal assistance experience working with people with challenging behaviors knowledge of low-arousal approach (LAB) and alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) experience with medical devices, patient transfer, or extensive care a B-class driver's license We are looking for someone who puts the individual in focus and treats people with respect, good conduct, and commitment. You take responsibility for your work tasks and collaborate well with others. You also need to be confident in yourself and have the ability to stay calm even in stressful situations. Does this sound like a job for you? We warmly welcome your application! Other Information Selection and interviews take place continuously during the application period. Instead of a cover letter, you will answer a number of questions about your experience and qualifications. We offer orientation, professional development, wellness allowance, and cycling allowance. Within the Department for Functional Support, we work with the 3T concept – Temporary to Permanent, where temporary work can be a path to a future permanent position. Before a job offer is made, you must provide an excerpt from the police criminal record register. Which excerpt is required depends on the type of operation you will work in. When working in the individual's home: An unopened excerpt from the police criminal record register is required before a job offer is made. You must request this excerpt yourself using the police's e-service. You do this via the link: https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/arbete-i-hemmet-med-aldre-och-personer-med-funktionsnedsattning-e-tjanst/ When working in our child care operations: You must request an excerpt from the police website for the criminal record register and suspicion register. You order a digital register excerpt that is sent to your digital mailbox. You do this via the link: https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/barn-med-funktionsnedsattning/ City of Gothenburg applies individual and differentiated salary setting. Here you can get more information about, among other things, salary statistics. Salary, compensation, and benefits: https://goteborg.se/wps/portal/start/jobba-i-goteborgs-stad/sa-ar-det-att-jobba-hos-oss/formaner-och-lon We only accept applications through our recruitment system in accordance with GDPR. If you have protected personal information, do NOT apply through the system but contact the responsible recruiter to handle your application. Positions are filled provided the position is not needed for use within the department or the city's restructuring efforts. To staffing and recruitment companies: For this recruitment, we have chosen recruitment channels and do not wish to receive offers of competence placement, advertising, or recruitment assistance. About Us We are all different. We are also equal and have the same right to a safe home, meaningful activity, and to feel valued. With the right conditions, we can grow, develop, and participate in society on our own terms. Within the Department for Functional Support, we provide support, service, and care to children and adults with disabilities and create opportunities for them to live a good and independent life, like everyone else. With 6,200 committed employees, we are Sweden's largest functional support department. We work in, among other areas, residential facilities with special services, daytime activities, residential support, personal support, and child and short-term residential facilities. Do you want to help create a more inclusive society? Welcome to us! You are Gothenburg
Support Assistant, Ostvägen Short-Term Residence
The Disability Care Services in Umeå Municipality aims to be a resource that releases and strengthens people's ability to live an independent life through proximity and collaboration. Short-term stays are one of the services under the LSS (Act on Support and Services for Persons with Certain Disabilities) designed to provide children/youth with a change of environment and recreation as well as to relieve families. The activity aims to support individuals with disabilities and strengthen their ability to live an independent life. This is accomplished by offering a change of environment and opportunities for leisure activities, recreation, and social community in a safe and home-like setting. Ostvägen is a short-term residence for children with intellectual disabilities. The target group encompasses a broad spectrum of neuropsychiatric, mental, and physical disabilities. The residence is located in a rental building with capacity for four children per day in the age range 6-14 years. During their stay, children have their own bedroom and access to shared spaces. The surrounding area features playgrounds and green spaces. Your Work Tasks As a team member at Ostvägen Short-Term Residence, you are part of a work group committed to creating a safe, meaningful, and developmental stay for children and young people. Together with your colleagues, you support individuals' ability to live as independently as possible and contribute to a safe and stimulating environment. You plan and conduct activities such as walks, play, crafts, and games to promote social participation and create meaningful leisure time. Your work also includes routine household tasks such as cooking, cleaning, and personal care/intimate hygiene. An important part of the work is collaborating and communicating with parents and ensuring that each child receives the support they need. The work also includes documentation, record keeping, development of implementation plans, and medication management. Working hours are scheduled during days, evenings, weekends, and on-call combinations. Coordinated planning may occur between our operations. What You Get From Us With us, you get much more than just a job! When you create safe relationships, you receive great trust in return. When you show patience, you get to witness small steps become major breakthroughs. When you offer structure, you see anxiety replaced by calm and confidence. When you work with your heart, you gain a work environment where your contribution truly matters. About You As a person, you are calm, confident, and engaged with your heart in the right place. You have good collaboration skills and a professional demeanor toward users, relatives, and other stakeholders. You share our values and strive to develop operations through continuous improvements. You are aware that building relationships takes time, which you do through creative and playful interaction. Furthermore, work within our children and young adult services requires good physical condition, and heavy lifting may occur. Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability. Requirements Education in care and support, children and leisure, social work program, preschool teacher education, teacher education, or other equivalent education that the employer deems equivalent. Experience working with the target group of people with disabilities within LSS, school, or other work that the employer deems equivalent. To communicate with users, relatives, and colleagues, write, and access care documentation, you must have very good Swedish language skills in both spoken and written form. Merits Experience working with children and young people with disabilities. Experience working with clarifying pedagogy. Experience working with low-affective communication. Experience working with Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC). Other Information To ensure that the people called for interviews are those who best match what we are seeking, we use screening questions. The screening questions are based on the requirements for the position, and you answer the questions in connection with your application. It is therefore important that you answer the screening questions and do not refer to your CV/cover letter. Before an offer of employment, we ask you to provide an extract from the police's criminal record register. This is done as a final step in the recruitment process. We warmly welcome your application! About Umeå Municipality Umeå Municipality is the region's largest employer with over 13,000 important employees. Our organization is divided into nine departments, and together we work to ensure that Umeå grows with consideration. Our value base is based on citizen focus, openness, trust, and continuous improvements. Working with us, you get to participate in socially important tasks where you contribute to Umeå continuing to be safe, secure, and enjoyable. Umeå is Northern Sweden's largest city with a rich range of experiences and opportunities. We are an association and culture city that offers a richer life even outside of work. Here you can learn what it is like to live and reside in Umeå: Move - Umeå Municipality We are growing and therefore we may be looking for just you? Do you also want more? We offer good terms, excellent benefits, and good development opportunities for lifelong learning, as well as important work for all who live and work here. We look forward to hearing from you.
We Are Seeking Support Assistants for Our LSS Housing in Tungelsta
Do you have ideas for the future and are you driven by challenges? In Haninge, you'll develop alongside committed colleagues who want to make a difference today. Right now, one of the most ambitious transformation initiatives in our municipality's history is underway. We're building a new city, approximately 20 minutes from central Stockholm. Join us on our journey. Do you want to be part of our development journey to become an accessible, visible, and knowledge-based social services organization with a preventive approach? In our social services department, you'll contribute to securing the future of social services. We work based on our target groups' needs within individual and family care and disability care, so that residents of Haninge can live independent lives. We focus on results and what creates value for those we serve. Welcome to us! Support Assistants Needed for LSS Service Housing We work on assignment from the purchasing unit. We provide support to people who have neuropsychiatric variations, autism spectrum conditions, and intellectual disabilities who live in housing with special services in Haninge municipality. Your role as a support assistant is based on LSS, where the guiding principles for how support should be provided are self-determination, influence, accessibility, participation, continuity, and holistic perspective. The goal is for the person to receive the support they need to live as independently as possible with good quality of life. Your Assignment You are expected to be able to work as needed and meet these formal requirements: Adequate education or ongoing education, such as nursing assistant or other pedagogical education that we deem equivalent. Experience working with people who have been granted LSS services. Knowledge of clarifying pedagogy and low-affect interaction approaches. Good knowledge of the Swedish language, both spoken and written, as we have documentation responsibilities. Ability to work irregular hours, which includes work on weekdays and holidays—morning, day, and evening shifts as well as on-call nights (sleeping on-call or awake nights). It is important to us that you are a stable person with an empathetic approach. You are flexible, take your own initiative at work, and take personal responsibility for your work situation. We place great importance on personal suitability, and it is essential that you can collaborate with others in the team, guardians/administrators, family members, and other partners. What We Can Offer You Developing work that engages and challenges you, together with knowledgeable colleagues and other partners. Feel free to visit our website to learn more about our operations: www.haninge.se Other Information Employment can only be initiated after an acceptable police certificate has been obtained. To ensure quality in the recruitment process and enable good communication with applicants, we ask that you apply through the application link. Contact: Rebecca Fredriksson - Operations Manager [email protected] Felicia Palmgren - Operations Manager [email protected] We look forward to your application! In this recruitment, we have already made our selections regarding advertising channels and partners. We politely but firmly decline any assistance with recruitment from external parties. Employment can only be initiated after an acceptable police certificate has been obtained. During the summer period weeks 27 to 32, response times may be longer than usual. Thank you for your patience. Haninge Municipality views diversity as a strength and welcomes all applicants. Our competency-based recruitment methodology aims to focus on individual competence and thereby also prevent discrimination. Information about employment terms and benefits can be found on our website. There you can read more about what it means to be employed by Haninge Municipality. If you want to know more about us, you are warmly welcome to visit haninge.se/career
Support Assistants for Children and Youth Residential Facilities (LSS)
Do you want a meaningful and challenging job where you can make a difference for children and young people every day? We're looking for an experienced, empathetic, and driven support assistant. Apply for this position with us and become an important part of our team! Who are we? Welcome to our children and youth residential facilities under section 9:8 of the LSS – an organization where you make a real difference every day. We are now expanding our operations and are therefore seeking engaged support assistants who want to help shape our services together with us. With us, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to a safe, developmental, and professional environment – both for the children and young people we work with and for your colleagues. We are recruiting for two units: Ånestadsgatan 156 in Smedby, an established facility, and Vägstumpen 1 in Svärtinge, a new unit starting in fall 2026. You will be part of one of these units, where you'll become an important part of creating a strong and well-functioning team. Our facilities have a total of seven residential places. Children and young people with various disabilities, different backgrounds, and individual needs live in our facilities. The operations maintain a high staff-to-resident ratio and we have 24-hour staffing with both awake night shifts and sleeping on-call duty. In our organization, the children and young people are always at the center, where we work purposefully to promote their independence and create a safe and adapted living environment based on their individual needs and circumstances. Your responsibilities Work in the facility is based on each individual's implementation plan. Our goal is to work towards making each person as independent and secure as possible so they can develop according to their abilities. You provide individually adapted support and maintain a professional approach. Together with the rest of the staff team, consisting of support assistants and support educators, you form a team around the individuals living here. As an employee with us, you have a significant role in our team in creating security and quality of life for our residents in their home. You are part of the close user-centered work, which involves following our children and young people in their daily lives. The tasks include everything that occurs in a home environment where the individual's needs guide the work. The work involves contact with many actors both internally and externally. This is important for maintaining holistic work around each individual, as the children and young people live permanently with us. Who are you? We're looking for someone with a high school diploma from a care and nursing program, children and recreation program with a social focus, or other relevant education that the employer deems equivalent, such as behavioral science or treatment pedagogy. Experience and knowledge of working with people exhibiting various types of challenging behaviors, such as physical and verbal aggression and self-injurious behavior, is a requirement. We'd prefer that you have experience and knowledge of socially disruptive behaviors, as these occur within our target groups. We also see that you need to have experience with visual teaching methods, low-affect approaches, and neuropsychiatry. You have previous experience working with children and young people within LSS, and we view it positively if you've worked with special diagnoses such as PWS and within NPF, as well as having knowledge of trauma and crisis management. It's desirable if you can sign language or use signs as support and/or are familiar with other forms of AAC. You maintain a high level of structure and a holistic perspective while having a well-grounded approach related to user and family-related issues within the LSS target group. It's important that you can collaborate and work based on decisions made in the organization. We consider it important that you take initiative and strive to build good relationships and achieve results. Being a good role model for our children and young people as well as your colleagues is self-evident to you. You are responsive and adapt your communication to the person you meet, which also means you have high self-awareness where you're conscious of your feelings and actions and how these affect your work situations. Close user-centered work requires that you have a high degree of independence. You see what needs to be done and take initiative in your daily work, which includes being able to implement and develop new ideas and methods. You are flexible and can change your approach and adapt when the situation requires it. You find it easy to prioritize and find solutions in different situations. You're accustomed to working with risk assessments and can see both the big picture and details. As a person, you are calm and confident with a positive attitude and genuine commitment to the target group. You see opportunities from a professional perspective and want to contribute to developing the organization based on its goals. You have good computer skills and can express yourself well in Swedish, both verbally and in writing. A driver's license is a requirement. We look forward to your application! Job Information Number of open positions: 7 Employment type: Full-time permanent position Start date: September 1 or by agreement Work schedule: Day/evening/weekend shifts and sleeping on-call duty Remote work available: No Application deadline: June 14 Contact: Unit Manager Emma Rothman, 011-152797, [email protected] Additional information: We have chosen to remove the personal letter requirement and replace it with selection questions relevant to the position. This makes it easier to make an objective assessment of your qualifications. You submit your CV as usual. A criminal record check will be requested before employment can be finalized.