Job Responsibilities

We are looking for someone who wants to work at the daily activity center, Nya LAS Artes, in Hisingen.

With us, safety, participation, and joy are at the center, and each day is shaped according to the participants' individual needs, interests, and conditions. The activity is aimed at individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID), who are at an early developmental stage.

Nya Las Artes offers structured and individually tailored activities aimed at creating a meaningful, safe, and developing everyday life for the participants. The center provides a varied daily routine with both indoor and outdoor activities. Participants have the opportunity for walks, cycling on tandem bikes, and outdoor time in the garden. Job tasks may also include recycling and simpler sorting work, as well as baking and handling the unit's laundry.

In addition, sensory stimulating activities and computer work are included. Physical activity is offered in the center's activity hall, for example through the use of a trampoline and swing. Each participant has individual schedules and activities tailored to their needs, abilities, and daily condition.

As a support assistant, you provide support in the participants' daily activities as well as in care situations. The work may involve lifting and there may also be challenging behaviors. You are expected to work in a structured, low-arousal manner and in close collaboration with other support assistants, support pedagogues, and the unit manager. Together, we focus on each participant's resources, interests, and needs to create conditions for participation in meaningful activities.

The operation works with low-arousal approaches (LAB) and alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) to create a safe environment and good conditions for communication and participation.

You are the contact person for one or more participants and are responsible for establishing, following up, and documenting implementation plans with goals for the participant's employment. The assignment also includes developing and updating work plans, routines, and manuals, as well as keeping daily notes in Treserva.

The work shifts are scheduled during the day, Monday to Friday.

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, 120 higher education credits, or a combination thereof that corresponds to at least four semesters of full-time studies.

Alternatively, 60 higher education credits and at least two years of experience working with support and services for individuals with disabilities. The education should have relevant credits in behavioral science, pedagogy, psychology, social work, and (psychiatric) care or other education that the employer assesses as equivalent.

Good knowledge of Swedish in speech and writing is a requirement. Those who do not meet the qualification requirements of passing Swedish 1 or Swedish as a second language 1 may be offered to take a language test through the test user Educateit.

You have at least two years of experience working with challenging behavior and individuals on the autism spectrum.

We consider it an advantage if you have experience with low-arousal approaches and alternative and augmentative communication.

We are looking for a stable and secure person who builds trust in interactions with participants, relatives, and colleagues. You take responsibility for your assignment, work in a structured manner, and follow decisions made. With a change-oriented approach, you contribute to the development of the operation and adapt your working methods based on new conditions. You have a pedagogical approach and the ability to support, motivate, and guide participants based on their individual needs and conditions.

Conditions

Selection and interviews will 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 department 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

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 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 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 claimed 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 department for 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, like everyone else.

With 6,200 dedicated employees, we are Sweden's largest functional support administration. We work, among other things, in 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!

You are Gothenburg.