Support Assistants for Hövdingavägen LSS Group Home

Gävle kommun · Vollzeit

Drottninggatan 22, Gävle, Schweden

Would you like to be part of making Gävle even better with us? In Gävle municipality, we work dedicatedly together to provide our residents with a safe and inspiring environment. We offer you a trustful workplace where you can develop in your work and grow as a person. We welcome your application! 5 position(s). JOB RESPONSIBILITIES As a support assistant, your role includes planning, implementing and following up on work to promote an ethical and humanistic approach toward customers and ensure that you work together toward the same goals. The work includes planning customer-focused activities based on customers' implementation plans as well as establishing and following up on routines, job descriptions and action plans. We place great emphasis on customers' independence, participation and opportunities for communication through various alternative and augmentative communication methods. Support should be provided in a way that strengthens the individual's confidence in their own abilities. The group home is home to two customers with complex needs. Customers may struggle with managing their own emotions and reactions, which in some cases can lead to challenging behavior. The ability to meet customers with empathy, respect and professionalism, regardless of behavior, is of utmost importance. Your guiding principle in your approach toward our customers, colleagues and other partners is Gävle municipality's values, routines and policies. Together with your colleagues and unit manager, you contribute your thoughts, ideas and reflections on how we work to develop our operations to achieve our goals. Your approach and way of working is based on national guidelines and evidence-based methods with the aim of contributing to customers' personal development, strengthening their communicative and social abilities, self-esteem and independence. Guiding your daily work are customers' implementation plans or other action plans, instructions and routines established for each customer. You support customers with daily tasks, ranging from cooking and cleaning to personal care, hygiene, leisure activities and social and government contacts. QUALIFICATIONS To succeed in your role as a support assistant, it is important that you build trust and confidence and inspire the people you meet in your daily work. You listen, show empathy and respect. You have the ability to see what needs to be prioritized, are efficient and use resources to best achieve results. It is self-evident for you to spread calm and stability in the workplace, especially in pressured situations that may arise. You have an unpretentious approach and have the ability to view situations from different perspectives. We are looking for you who have: • an approved education in healthcare and care programs, child and leisure programs with a focus on social work, vocational training as a support assistant and/or at least 1 year of experience working with people with functional variations within LSS • experience with social and medical documentation • a B driver's license and driving experience • good Swedish in both spoken and written form It is an advantage if you have: • experience in medication handling / have or have had medication delegation • education in and/or experience working with clarifying pedagogy • education in and/or experience working with alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) • education in and/or experience working with low-affective interaction • experience using digital tools, computers, smartphones, tablets, etc. • experience working with challenging behavior • CPR training We look forward to welcoming you to our team! The operation is staffed around the clock, day, evening, night and weekends. All staff work every other weekend. As a final candidate in the recruitment process, it is a requirement that you provide an excerpt from the criminal record and suspicion register for work in the home with elderly and people with disabilities. Employment type: Permanent employment. Duration: Start date: 2026-11-01. Working hours: Schedule. We offer you You are important to us! As an employee of Gävle municipality, you have • generous vacation benefits and as a new employee you also have the right to paid vacation already in your first year of employment • reimbursement for wellness and exercise when you have been employed for more than three months • several different insurance options through our collective agreements, for example sick leave insurance and occupational injury insurance are included. Read more about our benefits here: https://www.gavle.se/formaner Our values Quality, treatment and cooperation are the most important success factors for solving our mission in the best way. To do the right things and act wisely in our daily work, it is important that we base ourselves on our jointly stated values. Read more about us as an employer and what it is like to work at Gävle municipality here: https://www.gavle.se/jobbahososs Here you can read more about our organization: https://www.gavle.se/organisation Gävle municipality is part of the Finnish administrative area. If you therefore speak Finnish in addition to our other competence requirements, that can be an advantage. Information to recruitment consultants and advertising sales: We decline all contact regarding advertising and recruitment services.