Vacant job

Job Responsibilities

We are looking for two support assistants for Stora Tolsereds väg BmSS!

This is a group home with special services consisting of six apartments for clients with psychiatric diagnoses such as bipolar disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, emotional personality disorder, or psychosis.

Here, 6 clients aged 50-67 live, who need support and care due to mental disabilities. The group home is designed to create a safe and homely environment where residents can receive assistance with daily activities, cultural activities, and social interaction.

As a support assistant, you will work both independently and alongside colleagues to support tenants in their daily lives and contribute to a safe and independent life. Your mission is also to create security for the clients and give them the opportunity to participate in their daily lives based on their individual circumstances. You are also tasked with encouraging, supporting, and motivating them to develop their independence and social participation. The work includes health and medical care interventions by delegation, collaboration with psychiatry and home care, as well as support in daily chores such as cooking, cleaning, laundry, and personal hygiene. You will also participate in establishing, implementing, and following up on routines and action plans to provide the right support based on individual needs.

There is a support educator at the workplace who guides daily work. The work environment may involve passive smoking and contact with pets (fur animals). Challenging behaviors and solitary work may occur.

You will work on a schedule, and working hours are allocated to daytime and evening hours as well as every other weekend. Some work time may occur in other activities. We plan the schedule time in TimeCare.

We offer a rewarding and varied job with the opportunity to make a difference in people's lives.

Welcome with your application!

Qualifications

We are looking for someone who has a degree from the Health and Care program, support assistant training, or the Child and Leisure program with a focus on social or educational work. The educational requirement is also fulfilled if you have a post-secondary specialization in the disability area that includes at least 200 YH points, 120 university credits, or a combination in between that corresponds to at least four semesters of full-time studies. Alternatively, 60 university credits and at least two years of experience working with support and service for people with disabilities. The education should have relevant credits in behavioral science, pedagogy, psychology, social work, and (psychiatric) care or other education that the employer deems equivalent.

Communication is an important part of the job, which requires that you have passed Swedish 1 or Swedish as a second language 1. If you do not meet the qualification requirements in Swedish 1 or Swedish as a second language 1, you may be offered to take a language test through the test user Educateit.

Experience working with people with mental and neuropsychological variations is a requirement.

If you have experience with knowledge of ESL, MI, and low-arousal approaches, these are considered meritorious. Experience with social documentation and knowledge of IBIC is also seen as meritorious.

You are calm and secure in pressured and difficult situations. You can balance the demands placed on you and can make well-founded decisions despite time pressure.

You can change how you work when things change. You can quickly change your perspective and approach and see opportunities in changes.

You take responsibility for your tasks and the group's tasks. You think of those we are here for and their best interests. You do your best to complete all tasks correctly and follow up on how it turned out.

You are attentive and open to understanding other people's needs, feelings, and opinions.

You are friendly and helpful to others even in a stressful situation. You show respect for everyone you meet at work.

You are meticulous, work focused, and care about details. You ensure that the work is done correctly.

Other

Selection and interviews may 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 area instead of sending 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 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 allowance, bicycle allowance, and other discounts and offers

Before offering employment, we ask you to present an extract from the police criminal record. The ordered extract must be unopened. You must request an extract from the police criminal record yourself. This can be done on the police's website 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)

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

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

Filling the position is subject to the condition that the position does not need to be claimed in the department 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, just like everyone else.

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

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

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