Vacant job

About the job

ACT (Assertive Community Treatment) Gothenburg is a collaboration between the Social Services Administration South West and Psychiatry Psychosis at Sahlgrenska University Hospital. Here, you will have the opportunity to work together with colleagues from social services and specialist psychiatry to support individuals with complex psychosocial challenges.

At ACT, you will have the opportunity to work in a coordinating role and drive support and the client's social situation forward together with the client. The municipal effort is carried out on behalf of social services and is documented in Treserva. You will become a key link in helping the individual connect with various actors within the social safety net, such as social services, probation, healthcare, as well as relatives. The work is based at the reception facility on Järntorget 8, but also involves outreach work in the person's immediate environment, whether at home, in temporary accommodation, or on the city's streets and squares. The work is conducted based on the Resource Group-ACT model, and you will be offered support and guidance to work according to this model. Through our diverse professional backgrounds, we offer a holistic view of the user's needs together with specialist psychiatry. We can also offer individualized support to help people enter the labor market (IPS).

You will be part of a committed work team that supports each other through both good and bad times.

Become part of our important work!

About you

The basic requirement for the position is that you are educated as a social worker, or alternatively have a minimum three-year university/college education that the employer deems equivalent. You also need to have experience working with complex social issues, for example with individuals having substance abuse issues combined with psychosocial problems. Having a Category B driver's license is a requirement for the position.

Experience from case management within authority-exercising social services is meritorious. Experience from working with methods such as R-ACT, Motivational Interviewing, Low-Affective Response, and Relapse Prevention is also seen as meritorious.

As a person, you have the ability to change your attitude and working methods when things change; you orient yourself and move forward independently within the framework of your assignment. You show the ability to adapt your approach according to the situation and the person, and you demonstrate the ability to collaborate and cooperate with others, even in stressful situations and when you have different starting points. You show the ability to maintain sufficient structure in your cases, even when unexpected situations arise.

During the interview, we will ask you to give examples of how you have acted in different situations related to the personal competencies we are looking for.

In this recruitment, we will prioritize individuals with skills and abilities that complement the current work group.

Other

In this recruitment process, we will not ask for a cover letter. Instead, during the application process, you will answer a number of questions about your competence in the requested area.

Before an employment offer, we ask you to present an extract from the police criminal record. The requested extract must be unopened. You request the extract yourself from the police criminal record, choosing the one titled "Work in the home with elderly and persons with disabilities." You order the extract here.

To comply with GDPR requirements and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally and not via email or mail. Do you have protected personal data? Then do not apply via the system; instead, contact the recruiting manager for handling of your application.

The City of Gothenburg is one of Sweden's largest employers. Our mission is to create a good everyday life for Gothenburg's residents, visitors, and businesses. As an employee in the city, you have a secure employment with many career paths where you get the opportunity for interesting and meaningful tasks.

As we have already decided on the recruitment channels we wish to use for this recruitment, we kindly but firmly decline to be contacted for further offers of competence mediation, advertising, and recruitment assistance.

About us

The Social Services Administration South West is one of four social services administrations in the City of Gothenburg with around 900 employees. In the South West urban area, approximately 120,000 residents live, and the area stretches from Billdal to Högsbohöjd and to the southern archipelago. The administration's mission is to ensure that children, young people, and adults can live a secure and independent life and that children and young people have a rich leisure time. The administration also works to support people experiencing homelessness into permanent housing. Through collaboration with civil society, local business, and other actors, we aim to increase public health and safety in the area.

In the Social Services Administration South West, we want to capitalize on the commitment of all employees. Here, you can influence both your own job and the lives of others.