Cirkelgatan is a residential facility for children under Section 9, Paragraph 8 of the LSS (Act Concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments) – housing with special services for children and young people with disabilities. Here, staff is available 24/7 to provide support and care based on each child's individual needs. We offer a safe home environment where children have the opportunity for social connection, development, and meaningful activities, both within and outside the facility. Together, we work to create participation, strengthen children's independence, and give them the best possible daily life.
We are now hiring two support assistants!
Your responsibilities
As a support assistant at Cirkelgatan, you work to ensure each child has a safe, developmentally enriching, and meaningful day. Together as a team, we create the best conditions for children to grow, develop, and participate in their lives – every day.
The role includes, among other things:
Support and participate with children in their daily activities, both at home and outdoors
Escort children to school and, as a contact person, participate in meetings with, for example, schools and social services
Assist with personal hygiene
Handle routine household tasks such as cooking, cleaning, and doing dishes
Maintain close communication with parents and relatives of the children
Document in journals and care plans
Medicine delegation and management of medical conditions such as epilepsy and kidney disease
Collaborate with supervisor and colleagues
Important information
Outward-directed and self-harmful behavior occurs
Work hours are primarily scheduled for nights. Evening, weekend, and daytime hours may occur
Joint planning occurs between our disability care service facilities
About you
To succeed and thrive in working with us, you have a good ability to collaborate and be flexible. Of course, you have a professional approach toward the children, relatives, and other stakeholders around you. You are engaged, share our values, and want to work together with your supervisor and colleagues to develop and work toward set goals. Since the children are quick and active, you need good physical fitness to keep up with their pace. Great importance will be placed on personal suitability.
To communicate with users, relatives, and colleagues, write and access care documentation, and receive medicine delegation, it is important that you have good knowledge of the Swedish language, both spoken and written.
Requirements
Trained nursing assistant, childcare worker, teacher, or other education that the employer deems equivalent
Experience working within LSS, childcare, or elder care
Class B driver's license, as our child facilities have a vehicle
Meritorious
Experience working with children with disabilities
Knowledge of epilepsy
Experience with challenging/outward-directed behaviors
Experience with medicine delegation
Swimming proficiency
We warmly welcome your application!
Other information
To ensure that people called for interviews are the best match for what we are seeking, we use screening questions. The screening questions are based on the requirements and merits specified for the position, and you answer the questions as part of your application. It is therefore important that you answer the screening questions and do not refer to your CV/cover letter. Incomplete or insufficient answers may result in your application not proceeding 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 offer of employment, we ask you to provide an extract from the police records. This is done as a final step in the recruitment process.
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 help Umeå grow with care. Our core values are based on citizen focus, openness, trust, and continuous improvement. Working together with us, you get to work on socially important assignments where you contribute to Umeå continuing to be safe, secure, and fun.
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We will be growing, and perhaps we are looking for just you? Do you want more? We offer good terms, excellent benefits, and good development opportunities for lifelong learning, as well as work that is important to everyone who lives and works here. We look forward to hearing from you.