Vacant job

About the Job

We are now looking for a new colleague to Fjällblomman!

Our group home is located in Rannebergen in northeastern Gothenburg, where six adults with intellectual disabilities and mental health challenges reside.

For us, structure, clarity, and low-arousal approaches are important parts of our daily work.

Currently, our team consists of six support assistants and one support educator. We provide support based on individually established implementation plans and work pedagogically with common goals and methods. Our goal is to create conditions for each individual to live as meaningful and independent a life as possible.

As a support assistant, you will actively participate in both practical and pedagogical tasks in everyday life. You will provide support, service, and care based on each user's needs, respecting their integrity and autonomy. The work involves both everyday and planned interventions, always focusing on the individual's own goals.

We work with low-arousal approaches and other methods such as AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication), sign language support, and clear pedagogical practices. The role also includes social documentation and actively following up on implementation plans, case management, and collaboration with internal and external parties who are key individuals in the tenant's life.

We offer you a varied and meaningful job where you have the opportunity to influence the content of the work and make a real difference in people's lives!

The working hours are scheduled for daytime and evening shifts, sleeping on-call, and every other weekend.

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 pedagogical work. The educational requirement is also met if you have a post-secondary specialization in the disability field that includes at least 200 YH points or 120 higher education credits. Alternatively, 60 higher education credits and at least two years of experience working with support and service for people with disabilities. The education should have relevant points in behavioral science, pedagogy, psychology, social work, and (psychiatric) care or other education that the employer assesses as equivalent.

Communication is an important part of the work, which requires you to have good knowledge of the Swedish language in both spoken and written form. A passing grade in at least Swedish 1 or Swedish as a second language 1 is a requirement. 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 testing provider Educateit.

Experience working with individuals with intellectual disabilities and mental health challenges is an advantage. It is also advantageous if you have experience and knowledge of one or more of the following methods:

• Low-arousal approach (LAB)
• Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
• Sign language support
• Motivational Interviewing (MI)
• Living an Independent Life (ESL)
• Individual Needs in Center (IBIC)
• Clear pedagogical practices

It is advantageous if you have knowledge of social documentation and experience in establishing implementation plans.

We are looking for someone who is motivated to make a real difference and who wants to contribute to increased independence for those we serve.

As a person, you are friendly and helpful, treating others with respect, even in stressful situations. In your work, you are attentive, cooperative, and responsive to the needs, feelings, and opinions of others. You feel secure in pressured and challenging situations and can remain calm when needed. You have the ability to balance the demands placed on you and can make well-founded and responsible decisions.

Are you our new support assistant that we are looking for? Warm welcome to your application!

Other

The employment may begin with a probationary period.

Selection and interviews may begin during the application period.

In this recruitment, you will be asked to answer a number of questions where you can 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 counteract discrimination. As an employee in the administration for support services, we offer you:

• Secure employment with good employment conditions
• Full-time with the possibility of part-time
• Introduction upon hiring
• Professional development
• Health benefits, bike benefits, 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 can be 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)

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.

Appointment is subject to 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 skills 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 valued. With the right conditions, we can grow, develop, and participate in society on our own terms.

Within the administration for support services, 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 support services 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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