Through our core values of courage, tolerance, and creativity, we work in Uppvidinge Municipality to provide good service and develop socially important functions for our residents, visitors, and businesses. Uppvidinge Municipality is the municipality's largest employer with approximately 800 employees. With us, we want our employees to feel highly involved, and there should be room for flexibility and development.
We offer meaningful work where together we have the opportunity to truly make a difference for the municipality's residents. Welcome with your application and welcome to a municipality with a flourishing business community, a rich community life, and proximity to nature!
10 position(s).
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Working within the LSS field (Act on Support for Persons with Certain Disabilities), you will work in one of our activities such as group homes, day activities, short-term housing for children, or personal assistance. Working within these activities is an important mission that by law ensures the right to guarantee that persons with extensive and permanent disabilities receive good living conditions. Individuals should receive the help they need in daily life and have the opportunity to influence what support and services they receive. The goal is for the individual to have the opportunity to live like others.
As a support assistant within our various LSS activities, the work consists of supporting an individual who has disabilities. This includes everything from assisting with meals, performing care work, helping with personal hygiene, medication management, participating in activities, to motivating the individual to become more independent in their daily activities. The foundation of the job is to support the individual in developing or maintaining their own abilities.
It is important that you have a calm approach, a pedagogical attitude, and have a solution-focused mindset with the individual's best interests in focus. In addition to these qualities, we also see that you are attentive, responsible, can set boundaries, and are secure in yourself. You need to be able to work both in a group and alone, where you need to be able to communicate and cooperate with other staff and with the individuals' relatives. You need to be able to work in a structured manner and be able to handle documentation in our various systems.
Our various activities are located in Lenhovda and Åseda.
QUALIFICATIONS
You who are applying should be interested in working with people, be flexible and responsible.
Education and/or experience within the respective work area and a driver's license are merits. A driver's license is needed in certain cases to be able to get to the workplace and to drive during work.
Since documentation is part of your job duties, it is important that you master the Swedish language in speech and writing.
Salary form: Hourly wage.
Employment type: Fixed-term employment.
Duration: Start date: 2026-09-07. Start date by agreement.
Working hours: Working hours are day, evening, night shifts, as well as some on-call duty.
If you become relevant for employment, the employer will request an extract from the criminal record register. The Municipal Executive Board has made a decision that all new employees must provide a criminal record extract before employment. The extract to be provided is the extract for work within the school system.
To ensure quality in the recruitment process in Uppvidinge Municipality and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally and not via e-mail or paper format.
In preparation for the recruitment work, Uppvidinge Municipality has taken a position on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore firmly decline contact from media sales representatives, recruitment sites, and similar.