Vacant job

Imagine being part of creating a place where children and young people within the LSS (Act concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments) can grow, feel safe, and be seen for who they are. To contribute from the very beginning to creating a secure, developmental, and meaningful daily life for a young person. Do you want to be part of this journey?

We are now looking for support assistants who want to shape a workplace together where great commitment, genuine interest, and innovative ideas can take place.

With us, you truly have the opportunity to be involved from the start and contribute to creating a secure, developmental, and meaningful daily life for a young person. We are looking for you who are flexible, proactive, and thrive in an active daily life where no day is like the other.

Job Responsibilities

As a support assistant, your main task is to provide individually adapted pedagogical support that strengthens the individual's opportunity for an independent, meaningful, and developmental life. An important part of the task is also to contribute to a calm, secure, and predictable environment.

Communication is a central part of the work, and we use pedagogical methods such as clarifying pedagogy and low-affective handling to create clarity, structure, and security in daily life.

Working with low-affective handling means that you, as an employee, take responsibility for the situation, reflect on what has happened, and together with colleagues and the young person find sustainable solutions forward. We work with an approach characterized by respect, patience, and a strong focus on the individual's needs and conditions.

Involvement is at the center with us. We work so that the young person receives the right support, can influence their daily life, and develop based on their own goals, interests, and abilities. This can involve support regarding leisure activities, social interaction, communication, or cognitive understanding – always with the individual in focus.

You will work awake nights according to schedule, weekdays, and weekends.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who have a support assistant education, the Child and Youth Program with a focus on social work or pedagogical work, or the Care and Nursing Program with specialization within the program deepening functional impairment. Alternatively, other education that the employer deems equivalent, for example, a specialization within the disability area of at least 200 YH credits or higher education in relevant areas.

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 provider Educateit.

It is a requirement that you, as an applicant, have at least two years of experience working with people with neuropsychiatric disabilities. You also need to have at least two years of experience working with LAB (low-affective handling), self-harming behavior, and acting-out behavior. We also see that you have very good knowledge of social documentation and you need to have a driver's license for category B (manual).

As a person, you are stable and feel secure in handling the situations you face in your work. You take responsibility for the operation, both for the young person living in the residence and for all tasks that need to be done around it. At the same time, you are sensitive to the individual's needs and adapt your working method to the situation. You contribute to good cooperation with your colleagues and have a professional and respectful attitude towards everyone you meet in your work.

Other

Instead of sending a personal letter, you will answer a number of questions where you get to describe your knowledge in the area. Selection and interviews take place continuously during the application period.

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

As an employee in the Department for Functional Support, we offer you:

• Secure employment with good working conditions
• Full-time with the possibility of part-time
• Introduction upon new employment
• Competence development
• Wellness allowance, bicycle allowance, and other discounts and offers

Before an employment offer, we ask you to present an extract from the police's criminal record register. You must request an extract yourself from the police website for the criminal record and suspicion register. You order a digital register extract that is sent to your digital mailbox. You do this via the link: Work with children with disabilities | The Police Authority (https://polisen.se/arbete-med-barn-med-funktionsnedsattning/).

You can only submit your application via our recruitment system because all handling of personal data must be done according to GDPR. If you have protected personal data, 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 taken in the department or the city's restructuring work.

To you who represent staffing and recruitment companies: For this recruitment, we have chosen recruitment channels and do not wish offers of competence mediation, advertising, or recruitment assistance.

Warmly welcome with your application!

About Us

We are all different. We are also the same and have the same right to a secure home, a meaningful occupation, 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 department. We work among other things in residences with special service, day activities, housing support, personal support, and children's and short-term residences.

Do you want to contribute to a more inclusive society? Welcome to us!

You are Gothenburg.