Support Assistant at the Care and Welfare Administration in Mölndal

In the city of Mölndal, we take pride in having Sweden's most important jobs where we together create the best possible everyday life for our citizens. With knowledge, courage, and creativity, we develop our operations and contribute to making Mölndal an even better place to live and work. Welcome to make a difference in people's daily lives every day!

The Care and Welfare Administration, with approximately 1500 employees, is one of the administrations in the city of Mölndal and encompasses elderly care, support for disabilities, and health care.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

In your role as a support assistant, you will work to ensure that each user achieves as independent a life as possible. You will support users through various interventions such as breaking social isolation, approaching the job market, or starting studies. You will also help users structure their daily lives, manage household chores, and communicate with authorities and other agencies, while collaborating and cooperating with other actors.

The work involves working independently and alone with users, either in their homes or in public environments where there is a need for support. An important part of the job is to document and keep journal notes to ensure and quality assure the support provided to users.

The work may involve working in homes where there are pets.

Working hours consist of a workweek of 37 hours and include morning/day, evening, and weekend work.

QUALIFICATIONS

Requirements for the position:

• Trained support assistant or other education that the employer assesses as equivalent.
• Very good knowledge of Swedish in both spoken and written form.

Desirable for the position:

• Experience working with individuals with mental disabilities such as anxiety disorders, depression, bipolar disorder, psychotic disorders. Also neuropsychiatric disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, intellectual disabilities, self-harming behavior.
• Good experience with social documentation, such as implementation plans and journal notes.
• Broad digital competence, accustomed to using computers and mobile phones, apps.
• Clarifying pedagogy, alternative communication, training in ESL (An Independent Life) MI (Motivational Interviewing), and Basic level in collaboration/Care and support coordination.
• Driving license B is an advantage.

As a support assistant, you show respect and consideration for those you meet in your professional role. You base your actions on everyone's equal value and have the user's needs as the starting point for your actions. You act independently based on what the situation requires and have the ability to make independent decisions within the framework of your assignment. At the same time, it is important that you have the ability to work together with others, by being interested and creating understanding for others, you promote a respectful work climate. You understand the common mission, act based on it, and contribute to the whole.

Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability.

In this recruitment process, we are working with ongoing selection, and you may be contacted before the application deadline.

Welcome with your application today!

OTHER

Within the Care and Welfare Administration, there is an active effort to offer employees the desired degree of employment in order to reduce involuntary part-time employment. In cases where advertising concerns a part-time position, our ambition is to eventually provide the opportunity for increased employment.

In recruitment, we consider the diversity perspective to better reflect our operations.

If you need help applying for the position, please contact customer service at 0771-693 693.

Before any employment, an acceptable extract from the police's criminal record must be presented. We will also check citizenship. If you are not a citizen of Sweden, the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, you must be able to present a valid residence/work permit or prove that you are exempt from the requirement to have a work permit.

We would like to inform you that your application is a public document according to the principle of public access.

We kindly but firmly decline direct contact with staffing and recruitment companies as well as sellers of additional job advertisements. The city of Mölndal has contracted agreements.