Support Assistant for Vallentuna Children's and Youth Accommodation

About the Role

Do you have the courage to lead and create a Vallentuna where people and ideas thrive? Do you care about individuals with disabilities and are you passionate about supporting those who challenge and require educational competence? Then apply for these positions.

Vallentuna Municipality has the courage to lead. Our ambition is to be at the forefront of innovative solutions, smart working methods, and an efficient organization. As an employee, you play an important role in our development efforts. The municipality as a workplace is characterized by a consensus between politics and operations, where the common interest and responsibility for the best of Vallentuna shine through. Approachability, accessibility, and customer focus are important in our work for good results and increased quality.

Engagement, collaboration, and the equal worth of all individuals should permeate our organization. You who apply should share our common values.

About the Operations:

Vallentuna Children's and Youth Home

Vallentuna Municipality offers housing with special services for children or young people according to Section 9, Paragraph 8 of the LSS (Act on Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments) in its own operation. In this context, care refers to individually tailored assistance in daily living needed to meet a child’s or young person’s physical, mental, and social needs. The care in housing with special services should be continuously adapted to meet each child’s or young person’s needs.

At Vallentuna Children's and Youth Home, we are now scaling up and are ready to welcome another child who requires full-time accommodation with us. We will need to hire staff who have experience, feel confident, and have training in meeting educational challenges and challenging behaviors, and who want to have the most enjoyable job in the world.

Job Responsibilities:

• You will support clients in their everyday lives in as home-like an environment as possible, with opportunities for activities both within and outside the physical facility.
• You need to have a valid driving license (B) and feel confident driving a minivan in both urban and rural settings.
• Assisting clients with activities of daily living (ADL), including personal hygiene, may be part of your duties.
• You will document in a journal system, establish and update implementation plans, and plan activities.
• Additionally, cleaning, laundry, cooking, and shopping will be included in your daily work.
• The most sought-after skills will involve educational capability in everything you do.

Qualifications:

We are looking for someone with education or extensive experience in:

• Low-arousal approaches
• Clear pedagogy
• PBS (Positive Behavioral Support)
• AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication)
• Working with challenging behaviors in all forms
• Proficient knowledge of the Swedish language, both spoken and written
• A valid driving license (B) is a requirement.

Personal Characteristics:

• You work towards results, demonstrate reliability, and take responsibility for planning and following up on your work.
• You strengthen relationships by helping others, collaborating, following rules and processes, and sharing information.
• You develop, improve, seek solutions, and pursue learning and knowledge on your own initiative.
• You are the link, providing service, showing loyalty both externally and internally, and staying informed about the surroundings.
• Shared values are evident in your approach.
• Curiosity about overcoming challenges.
• You are confident in all work-related situations.
• Strong ability to work pedagogically and thoughtfully.

Information:

As an employer, we want to harness the qualities that a balanced gender distribution and cultural diversity bring. Vallentuna Municipality invests in competence development and a sustainable work life. To provide you with the best conditions in your role as an employee, Vallentuna Municipality offers an employee academy where you will receive training and tools.

The employment includes 3 permanent part-time positions, starting as soon as possible. A probationary period may be applied. We practice individual salary setting.

Before any new hire, Vallentuna Municipality conducts background checks and extracts from the criminal record.

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process, we use the tool ReachMee. We ask you to submit your application by clicking on the application link in the advertisement. We do not accept applications/expressions of interest via email. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us as described below. Interviews are conducted continuously. We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

You are warmly welcome to submit your application with a personal letter and CV by the deadline of November 30, 2025.

For more information, please contact:

Madeleine Östling, 08-587 852 71, [email protected]
Pär Johansson, 08-587 857 90, [email protected]

More information and union representatives can be found at: https://www.vallentuna.se/naringsliv-och-arbete/arbeta-hos-oss/lokala-fackliga-foretradare/