Summer Substitute Housing Support Worker for Social Psychiatry

Stockholm – our capital city with millions of dreams, expectations, and ambitions. We work for everyone living here today and in the future. Now we are looking for you who want to think big, new, and differently with us – for the people of Stockholm.

Do you want to make a difference in the everyday lives of Stockholmers and work in an exciting and growing district? With us, you will develop and grow with the task. We are working to find new innovative ways of working for a healthy and meaningful aging. To support this, we have an innovation center with leading welfare technology in care and support. Together, we work to be a district in a safe city to grow up, live, and age in.

Are you a person striving for development?

Are you a person who strives for development and has a structured and pedagogical approach? Do you have good collaboration skills and enjoy being part of a team? Are you good at working independently and taking responsibility? Then you might be the right person for us!

We are now looking for summer substitute housing support workers for our three residences with special support, focusing on social psychiatry.

Welcome to us

With us, you will have an exciting and developing job where the challenge is to best support the users and improve their quality of life while considering each individual's needs, wishes, and conditions. You will have friendly colleagues, an accessible manager, and a great opportunity for participation and further development of the operations.

The support and services of the operations should provide conditions for economic and social security, equal living conditions, and active participation in community life for our users. Support and services are tailored to the individual's needs, and the staff supports by highlighting their skills and compensating for difficulties. The interventions are based on the individual's self-determination and are derived from orders and implementation plans.

Your role

Within social psychiatry, you will meet people with mental disabilities and possible comorbidities living in group homes. The assignment involves supporting and strengthening the person's own drive, carrying out activities, and taking responsibility for their situation. The person should receive support to become as independent as possible based on their own abilities, which means trying to strengthen but also maintain abilities. The assignment is about highlighting the individual's own interests and thereby creating influence and participation.

Staff at the residence support users with daily living through individualized everyday support. This involves varying tasks focusing on motivational work, support and help with physical and mental health issues, and assistance with practical matters such as hygiene, cleaning, cooking, and other household chores. Staff should also support users in their leisure and social lives. As a housing support worker, you will promote users' participation, independence, abilities, and skills in all respects. Documentation takes place in the journal system ParaSol.

Working hours are scheduled according to needs, which may vary between day, evening, and night on both weekdays and weekends.

Your skills and experience

We are looking for someone who has:

• Completed the care and nursing program with advanced courses in Psychiatry 2 and Community-based Psychiatry
• Good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written, as documentation is an important part of the work

It is also an advantage if you have:

• Work experience in social psychiatry
• Knowledge of low-arousal approaches and clarifying pedagogy

We are looking for someone who is secure, stable, and has good self-awareness. You can work in a low-arousal manner and handle challenging situations. You are humble and clear and see the equal value of all people. You enjoy collaborating, creating structure, planning, and taking responsibility and have the ability to create a safe, calm, and positive atmosphere both in the staff group and with our users.

You take great responsibility in your work and differentiate between the personal and the professional. You behave in a way that is adapted to the situation. You can conduct reflective conversations with colleagues and other partners to create a common approach based on each person's situation.

You have the ability to adapt in your work, prioritize based on current conditions, and see opportunities.

Other

This advertisement concerns summer substitutes during the summer of 2026.

Working hours are scheduled according to needs, which may vary between day, evening, and night, both weekdays and weekends.

Selection and interviews are ongoing.

The positions may be filled by internal recruitment.

For work providing direct support to users within our units, a criminal record extract is required before employment can be established. The City of Stockholm works with competency-based recruitment aimed at recognizing each person's competence and thereby counteracting discrimination.

Enskede Årsta Vantör is one of 11 district administrations in the City of Stockholm. As part of the City of Stockholm, the administration provides preschool and leisure, care for the elderly and people with disabilities, social services, preventive and safety-promoting work, urban development, and park maintenance to our 105,000 Stockholmers living in the district. We face exciting challenges as the Enskede Årsta Vantör district grows and entirely new neighborhoods are built. Approximately 18,000 new apartments are planned by 2030.

To work with the elderly and people with disabilities in their homes in the City of Stockholm, you must present an extract from the criminal record. The extract must not be older than 6 months from the date of issuance.