Do you want to work with meaningful support, participation, and self-determination?

We are now looking for dedicated support assistants for our housing with special services, with a psychiatric focus, in northeastern Gothenburg!

About the positions

We are recruiting for two different types of positions within the same ad:

• Position 1 – Permanent placement
  Placement at Älvåsbacken.
• Position 2 – Mobile position
  Mobile placement where you work across Älvåsbacken, Trädgårdsberget, and Persiljegatan.

Both positions involve working with sleeping on-call duty.

The operational area consists of three residences (Älvåsbacken, Trädgårdsberget, and Persiljegatan) with special services according to LSS and SoL, all with a psychiatric focus. Our tenants have their own apartments and need individually tailored support in their daily lives.

The target group is adults with various mental disabilities and support needs, for example related to schizophrenia, anxiety, addiction, compulsion, and/or self-harming behavior.

The operations include 6–11 users per residence and have a strong focus on:

• Safety and stability.
• Social interaction and relationship building.
• Participation and self-determination.

All operations are pet-free.

About you

As a support assistant, you work to provide individually tailored support in daily life based on each person's needs and implementation plan. The role includes, among other things:

• Working based on low-arousal responses (LAB), motivational interviewing (MI), and Independent Living (ESL).
• Being a contact person and collaborating with relatives and other actors.
• Establishing, following up, and documenting implementation plans.
• Documenting in operational systems such as Treserva, Time Care, and Personec.

Working hours are scheduled for days, evenings, every other weekend, and sleeping on-call duty.

Qualifications

We are looking for someone who has a degree from the health and care program, support assistant education, or the child and leisure program with a focus on social or pedagogical work. Alternatively, you have post-secondary specialization in the disability field that includes at least 200 YH credits, 120 university credits, or a combination that corresponds to at least four semesters of full-time studies. Or 60 university credits and at least two years of experience working with support and services 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.

Experience working with people with mental disabilities is required for the position. You also need to have knowledge of motivational interviewing (MI), Independent Living (ESL), and experience working with low-arousal responses (LAB).

It is advantageous if you have experience working in the Treserva system and with the method of the individual's needs in focus (IBIC).

Communication is an important part of the job, which requires you to have good knowledge of the Swedish language in both speech and writing, which means a requirement for approved grades in Swedish 1, Swedish as a second language 1, or equivalent. Those who do not meet the qualification requirement may be offered to take a language test through the test user Educateit.

We are looking for someone who takes responsibility for their own and the group's tasks and always bases their work on the operations' mission and the residents' best interests. You are friendly, helpful, and professional in your interactions, even in stressful situations, and show respect and care for everyone you meet in your work. You actively work to ensure that our tenants receive the support they need and are receptive to others' opinions and perspectives by showing respect, consideration, and care.

Other

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

Selection and interviews will begin during the application period.

The City of Gothenburg actively works to promote equal rights and opportunities and to combat discrimination.

As an employee in the administration for 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

When working in an 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 yourself. This is done on the police's website https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/ (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/) either via e-service (Control of your own information in the criminal record) or with the help of the form to check your own information (Form for requesting a record 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 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 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 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 administration for functional support, we provide support, services, 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, within 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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