Uddevalla – a place for a lifetime

Welcome to become a part of our growing municipality - and to work with us to provide our residents with even better service.

We offer an attractive workplace that gives you great opportunities to develop in your professional role. Our goal is for everyone to thrive and grow - throughout their entire working life. We also want to develop as an employer and actively work to make the best use of your knowledge and engagement. We appreciate and encourage co-creation from everyone.

Uddevalla municipality is a beautiful place by the sea in the heart of Bohuslän. We believe in an open and positive interaction between the municipality, education, business, and culture.

We hope you will enjoy being with us!

We are looking for two dedicated employees for the Adult Support Department, social psychiatry

We are looking for someone who is responsible, structured, and flexible.

You are engaged in your work, have a good attitude, and enjoy building relationships and collaborating. You are positive and like to spread energy and joy! You also find it fun to be creative and come up with new ideas!

Are you a dedicated and positive individual with a warm demeanor, who meets the requirements? Submit your application today!

Description

Järvstigen's service housing and housing support is a residence with special services for people with significant difficulties in managing their daily lives due to mental disabilities. The support includes supportive and compensatory measures in the individual's home but may also include social interventions to, for example, break isolation. The measures aim for the individual to be able to live as independently as possible with the goal of managing their own housing.

Every day we work to ensure that our users have a safe and meaningful everyday life where a good and warm approach is second nature! For us, quality of life for our users means having influence over their daily lives and their own homes; being seen and respected is fundamental for security and well-being.

Working hours

The working hours are (subject to change) between 07:00-22:00 distributed over day and evening shifts, full-day shifts, sleeping on-call, and weekends. A requirement for employment is that you can work all mentioned shifts.

Job responsibilities

Your job responsibilities consist of supporting individuals in their daily lives according to the intentions of social services, which means preserving, changing, and developing people's own resources.

Your responsibilities include:

• Providing individually tailored support based on users' needs.
• Performing both supportive and compensatory interventions.
• Maintaining social documentation according to applicable legislation.
• Performing interventions on the delegation of nurses and rehabilitation staff.
• Performing and being responsible for shared operational tasks.
• Working independently.

It is also important that you contribute to a good working climate for colleagues and a good home environment for the tenants.

Qualifications

• Care and nursing program and the course “care and nursing specialization” in the (social) psychiatry field, as well as one of the following elective courses; social pedagogy, social work 1, or social work 2.
• or
• Child and youth program with a focus on pedagogical and social work, as well as one of the elective courses social work 2, special pedagogy 1, special pedagogy 2, psychology 1, or psychology 2b. Additional requirements include passing grades in Swedish 1 (100 points) and social studies (50 points) at the high school level, according to the care and nursing college's requirement level.
• alternatively
• Other education that the employer finds equivalent.

You also need to have experience working in social psychiatry and hold a valid B driver's license (manual).

Desirable qualities

• Knowledge of psychiatric diagnoses, comorbidity, and substance abuse.

Other

Applicants who are deemed to be of interest for the position will be asked to undergo a language assessment test. The request for a language test does not imply an offer of employment, only that you have progressed as a candidate in the selection process.

Recruitment begins during the application period. Selection and interviews are conducted continuously. When called for an interview, you will be asked to bring an extract from the criminal record of the type control of your own data in an unopened envelope.

We place great emphasis on personal suitability!

Probationary employment may be relevant.

Employment is subject to the necessary decisions being made.

When you apply for a job with us, your application will be saved. This is because we are a public entity. Your application becomes a public document when we have received it. This means that application documents and information about who has applied for a position can be requested by anyone.

If you have a protected identity, you should not submit your application digitally but contact the person listed as the contact person in the advertisement.

For positions where a license/valid proof from the National Board of Health and Welfare for a protected professional title is required, this must be submitted before employment.

Language assessment is carried out for certain professional groups before employment can be relevant.

Criminal record checks are conducted for all positions within the social services.

For positions within HVB operations, the HVB home extract is requested.

For positions aimed at children with disabilities, extracts for children with disabilities and control of own data are requested.

For other positions within social services, the extract Control of own data is requested.

If the extract is not digital, it must be brought in an unopened envelope during the check.

Criminal record - request extract www.polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret (https://www.polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret)