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Job Responsibilities

Are you looking for a meaningful, developing, and varied job? Do you want to make a difference in everyday life as a personal assistant? We are looking for someone with experience working with neuropsychiatric disabilities, preferably in connection with cerebral palsy, who wants to contribute with their expertise.

As a personal assistant, you will provide support in daily life to a user with extensive needs. The work is varied and is based on close collaboration with colleagues, relatives, and employers. You play an important role in creating structure, security, and a functioning everyday life based on the user's needs and current condition. The work takes place both at home and, in the future, in daily activities. The user enjoys going on excursions and also traveling to other cities and staying in hotels. Other interests of the user include taking the train, listening to music, writing stories daily, and shopping, among other things.

Your tasks include support with personal care, such as toilet visits, showering, and dressing/undressing. You will also handle transfers using various aids such as turners and power wheelchairs, which requires technical familiarity. The tasks also include tube feeding via a feeding pump and AAC (Alternative and Augmentative Communication). The work is based on a low-arousal approach, and you need to be able to initiate activities and help create routines that provide a meaningful and stimulating environment.

You will be part of an engaged team consisting of personal assistants, support pedagogues/on-call management, and unit managers. The role also includes documentation in the operational system Treserva, as well as participation in developing routines and working methods.

Working hours are varied. A probationary period of up to six months may apply.

Qualifications

Since communication and documentation are important parts of the job, good knowledge of Swedish is required, equivalent to a passing grade in Swedish 1 or Swedish as a second language 1.

We are looking for someone with prior experience working with neuropsychiatric disabilities.

It is advantageous if you have worked with extensive care interventions, such as support with intimate hygiene, and have experience with tube feeding. Furthermore, we view positively if you have experience working with individuals with significant care needs and feel comfortable using various transfer aids.

If you have experience with documentation in Treserva or similar systems, it is advantageous, as well as if you have training in care and nursing or another equivalent education. Experience working with individuals with neuropsychiatric disabilities in combination with cerebral palsy and/or challenging behavior is seen as a significant plus.

Finally, it is advantageous if you have worked with AAC, preferably with a focus on Bliss, and have knowledge of low-arousal approaches.

As a person, you are responsible, flexible, and have a strong focus on the user. You collaborate well with others, contribute to a good working environment, and have the ability to adapt to changing conditions. You are attentive, show care and respect in your interactions with others, and have a good overall perspective in your work. We place great importance on personal suitability.

Other

Selection and interviews will begin during the application period.

In this recruitment, you will be asked to answer a number of questions where you describe your knowledge in the field instead of sending a personal letter.

The City of Gothenburg actively works to promote equal rights and opportunities and to combat discrimination. As an employee in the Department of 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

When working in the individual's home: Before an employment offer, we ask you to present an extract from the police's criminal record. The ordered extract must be unopened. You must request an extract from the police's criminal record. This is done on the police's website https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/ (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/) either via e-service (Check your own information in the criminal record) or with the help of the form to check your own information (Form for requesting an extract for an individual, extract no. 442.3)

When working with children under 18 years: Before an employment offer, we ask you to present an extract from the police's criminal record. You must request an extract from the police's criminal record. You order a digital extract that is sent to your digital mailbox. You do this via the link: Children with disabilities, e-service Police Authority (polisen.se) https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/barn-med-funktionsnedsattning/ (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/barn-med-funktionsnedsattning/) Alternatively, you can order a criminal record via e-service or with the help of a form available on the police's website https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/ (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/) (Form for requesting an extract for personnel performing certain services for children with disabilities, extract no. 442.9) The ordered extract must be unopened.

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 subject to the condition that the position does not need to be claimed 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 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 of 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.

With 6,200 dedicated employees, we are Sweden's largest functional support administration. We work, among other things, in housing with special services, daily activities, housing support, personal support, and child and short-term housing.

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

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