About this role
Jönköping Municipality is a large employer with hundreds of different professional roles. We grow alongside the municipality's development, with more residents, more housing, and greater offerings. We are always seeking new talent - employees with diverse backgrounds and experiences, united by the common drive to create a better municipality to visit, live, work, and reside in.
Are you looking for a new challenge with great opportunities for development? We are now seeking a Support Assistant who wants to drive and influence the organization's progress!
Come and create a meaningful everyday life for others – your care truly makes a difference!
Your New Job
You will work closely with citizens daily to support and promote independent living. Work tasks include social support, personal care, medication administration, activities, and household work - always focusing on citizen participation. You may encounter lifting tasks and challenging behaviors, with staff working through a pedagogical and low-arousal approach. The focus is on individualizing your interaction and communication based on individual needs. Other tasks may occur and vary over time.
As a Support Assistant, you will actively engage in social documentation, implementation plans, and contact person responsibilities. You will also have representative roles and areas of responsibility related to quality, economy, or family support - with the aim of contributing to organizational development. You will collaborate with relatives, legal representatives, colleagues, managers, and other professionals such as healthcare and authorities. Together, you will identify and create conditions for individual development and motivation.
Your Competence
- We prefer candidates with a Support Assistant education: requiring a completed high school program in Child and Leisure with a social/pedagogical focus or Care and Nursing with specialization in disability/psychiatric areas. Alternatively, other education deemed equivalent by the employer.
- Experience in healthcare and social care is required. Additional merit if you have worked with physically disabled individuals and have a pedagogical approach.
- Desirable experience with representative roles, low-arousal interaction, mental health, and lifting techniques.
- Good Swedish language skills in speaking, writing, and reading comprehension are required for documentation, information gathering, and communication, along with good computer skills.
As a person, you are proactive, flexible, and structured - you thrive in change and maintain calm even when the pace increases. You enjoy taking responsibility in various representative roles and actively contribute to organizational development with colleagues and unit managers. It's important that you collaborate easily and build good relationships with people around you. With a service-oriented approach, you always prioritize citizens' needs.
Most importantly, we seek someone with a great interest in developing both the organization and themselves professionally. We place significant emphasis on personal suitability!
We Offer You
You'll receive a varied and developing job with the opportunity to make a real difference in others' lives. We offer great opportunities for development within your professional role, and you'll be able to drive and influence organizational progress through various responsibilities. As an employee of Jönköping Municipality, you'll naturally receive a secure employment and can take advantage of general benefits such as wellness contributions.
Read more about our offerings here: [link]
Welcome to Us
Brunnsgatan Service Residence is an LSS housing facility centrally located in Jönköping, with close proximity to public transportation and parking. Six citizens with various physical disabilities reside here, and the staff group consists of 12 competent employees. The organization's mission is to implement individual decisions based on social service and disability laws. Staff works with a salutogenic approach, aiming to help individuals experience their lives as meaningful, manageable, and comprehensible. We work to strengthen individual participation and influence, focusing on individual needs and goals.
Good to Know
This recruitment is for a permanent full-time position, with immediate start. Working hours are distributed between day and evening, on weekdays and weekends. Jönköping Municipality always offers 100% employment and works with co-planning where work at other facilities may occur.
Recruitment is conducted with ongoing selection, with interviews planned starting week 48. Job offers at alternative facilities may also be possible. Your application should include a CV, attached diploma, and preferably current employment certificates.
Want to Know More?
For questions or more information about the organization, contact Unit Manager Jeanetta Michael!
Union representatives: [link]
Together, we make Jönköping Municipality better – for everyone. Come and work with us. Welcome to apply for the Support Assistant position at Brunnsgatan Service Residence!
Jönköping Municipality strives to offer an attractive workplace free from discrimination and providing equal opportunities for all.
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