Do you want to make a difference as a support assistant in daily activities?

We offer you a meaningful job where your contribution is important for our participants' development.

About the organization

Hundraårsgatans Café & Servicegrupp is located in Kortedala and is a daily activity according to LSS (the Act on Support and Service for Certain Disabled Persons). The organization targets individuals with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities.

At Hundraårsgatan, we run both café and service operations. In the café, we offer coffee and sandwiches, and together with the participants, we bake bread, buns, and cookies, as well as handle conference orders. The café is part of a meeting place for seniors, but the general public is also warmly welcome.

Our service group performs practical tasks for other organizations both in the building and in the surrounding area. This can involve setting up break rooms, delivering goods, watering plants, keeping premises tidy, or performing other service tasks based on needs.

We work to ensure that each participant has a day that is meaningful, developing, and tailored to individual conditions and interests.

Your role as a support assistant

As a support assistant, you are responsible for supporting participants in their activities and contributing to ensuring they have a meaningful and safe day in the organization. You work to create conditions for participation, independence, and community with a focus on each participant's individual needs and goals. Your tasks are adapted to the participants' needs and conditions. You guide and support in both individual and group activities, motivate and encourage participation and development, and create structure in everyday life. You work practically alongside the participants in the activities offered in the organization.

The work is done closely with other support assistants and support pedagogues in an engaged and collaborative team, in cooperation with the unit manager. Together, you plan, implement, and follow up on activities based on the participants' resources, interests, and goals. As contact personnel for one or more participants, you are responsible for establishing and following up on implementation plans, creating work plans and routines, and documenting in Treserva.

If necessary, the support assistant also works in other daily activities within the area of operations.

Working hours are scheduled during the day, Monday to Friday.

About you

You who are applying have either a degree from the Health and Care Program, the Child and Leisure Program with a focus on social and pedagogical work, or a support assistant education. You may also have training in restaurant and service. Alternatively, you have a specialization in the disability field that includes at least 200 higher vocational education credits, 120 university credits, or 60 university credits in combination with at least two years of experience working with people with disabilities. The education should include courses in, for example, behavioral science, pedagogy, psychology, social work, or (psychiatric) care, or other education deemed equivalent.

For all educational paths, a passing grade in Swedish 1 or Swedish as a second language 1 is required. If this is missing, you may be offered to take a language test via the test user Educateit.

It is a requirement to have experience working with individuals with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities, as well as good computer skills and knowledge of social documentation. Knowledge and experience of low-arousal responses, alternative and augmentative communication, clarifying pedagogy, sign language support, independent living, and IBIC are also required.

Experience in care and support work, as well as experience in mentoring others in restaurant, café, and/or service operations, is meritorious.

You who are applying are calm and stable even under pressure, take responsibility for both your own and the group's tasks, and make thoughtful decisions. With a positive and solution-focused approach, you address the needs of those we are here for and work diligently to create good results.

Other

Selection and interviews will begin during the application period.

In this recruitment, you will answer a number of questions where you can describe your knowledge in the field instead of submitting a personal letter.

The City of Gothenburg actively works to promote equal rights and opportunities and to counteract discrimination.

As an employee in the department for functional support, we offer you:

• Secure employment with good employment conditions
• Full-time with the possibility of part-time
• Introduction upon hiring
• Professional development
• Wellness grants, bicycle grants, and other discounts and offers

We only accept applications via our recruitment system in accordance with GDPR.

If you have protected personal information, you should NOT apply via the system but contact the responsible recruiting manager for handling your application.

Appointment is made on the condition that the position does not need to be utilized in the administration or the city's restructuring work.

To those representing staffing and recruitment companies: For this recruitment, we have chosen recruitment channels and do not wish to receive offers of competence mediation, advertising, or recruitment assistance.

About us

We are all different. We are all also alike and have the same right to a safe home, meaningful employment, and to feel valuable. With the right conditions, we can grow, develop, and participate in society on our own terms.

Within the department for functional support, we provide support, service, and care to children and adults with disabilities and create opportunities for them to live a good and independent life, like everyone else. By spreading knowledge and collaborating within the City of Gothenburg and with other actors, we increase understanding of individuals' needs and design interventions that make a real difference.

With 6,200 dedicated employees, we are Sweden's largest functional support administration. We work within housing with special services, daily activities, employment, housing support, personal assistance, child and short-term housing, respite care, and support and guidance.

Do you want to help contribute to a more inclusive society? Welcome to us!

You are Gothenburg.