Vacant job

Job Responsibilities

At Backa Kyrkogata, we work to provide individually tailored support and services to adults.

Our tenants, aged between 20 and 70, live in their own apartments and represent a diverse group with varying needs.

As a support assistant, you play a central role in promoting tenant participation and creating conditions for them to influence their services and daily lives. You provide support in daily life – from communication and social interaction to leisure activities and practical household tasks. The role also includes some personal care, such as assistance with personal hygiene, meals, and other basic needs, which may involve heavy lifting. By adapting your working methods, you contribute to ensuring that each individual has the opportunity to live an independent and meaningful life.

You work closely with individuals in the tenants' networks, such as guardians, social workers, relatives, and healthcare professionals. The position also includes social documentation and medication management according to current delegation.

By establishing and following implementation plans, you ensure that the tenants are the focus. You contribute to creating a safe home where each person has access to participation, self-determination, and quality of life.

All social documentation is done in the documentation system Treserva. If you have not previously used the systems used within the City of Gothenburg, you will receive training in these.

Housing with special services offers support around the clock. We start from the tenants' needs and need to adapt working hours accordingly. Working hours are scheduled for daytime and evening as well as weekends. We use Time Care Planning for operationally adapted and flexible schedules.

Qualifications

We are looking for someone with 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 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 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 assesses as equivalent.

Communication is an important part of the job, which requires that you have passed Swedish 1 or Swedish as a second language 1. 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 test user Educateit.

It is required that you have previously worked as a support assistant and that you have extensive experience working with various types of disabilities and that you have experience with AAC (alternative and augmentative communication).

It is an advantage if you have experience or knowledge of LAB (low-arousal approach) and clear pedagogical methods.

You take responsibility for both your own and the group's tasks and always work with the individual's best interests in focus. You strive to carry out tasks carefully and follow up on results to ensure good quality.

In your interactions with others, you are friendly, accommodating, and respectful – even when the pace is high. You meet everyone in a positive and professional manner and work to ensure that the tenant receives the support and service they need.

You are stable and secure in challenging situations, can handle demands and time pressure, and make well-founded decisions even when circumstances are challenging.

Other

Selection and interviews will begin during the application period.

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

The City of Gothenburg actively works to promote equal rights and opportunities and to combat discrimination. As an employee in the Department of 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 grants, bicycle grants, and other discounts and offers

When working in an individual's home: 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. This is done on the police 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 via the system but contact the responsible recruiting manager for handling your application.

Appointment is made on 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 competency 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 Department of 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, just 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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