Vacant job

Opaltorget is a residence with special support services focusing on mental and neuropsychiatric disabilities. We are looking for two support assistants for our residence. We offer the opportunity to develop and shape the operations together with us. Currently, eight support assistants, a method supervisor, and a unit manager work at Opaltorget. You and your colleagues will contribute to creating an stimulating environment and a creative workplace. Are you looking for a varied job where you take significant responsibility? Read on!

About the job

As a support assistant, you place the individual's needs, abilities, and interests at the center, supporting the user in daily life and in their right to self-determination. You work norm-creatively and innovatively, motivated to promote the development of the user's own resources. Together with the users, you work to provide the best possible conditions for an independent life with high quality of life. You work based on individually created implementation plans.

We utilize methods such as Independent Living (ESL), Motivational Interviewing (MI), Low-Affective Handling (LAB), and Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC). The role includes social documentation and collaboration with both internal and external parties who are key figures in the user's life. We aim to create teams where employees' strengths are utilized effectively, contributing to a work environment with an open atmosphere and solution-focused discussions.

The work schedule will include days, evenings, and three out of six weekends. We use Multiaccess for scheduling and work with collaboration hours.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who have a degree from the Care and Nursing program, the Support Assistant program, 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 comprising at least 200 YH credits, 120 university credits, or a combination thereof equivalent to at least four terms of full-time studies. Alternatively, 60 university credits and at least two years of experience in providing support and services to people with disabilities. The education should have relevant points in behavioral science, pedagogy, psychology, social work, and (psychiatric) nursing, or other education deemed equivalent by the employer.

You have previous experience working as a support assistant, as well as experience in psychiatry and neuropsychiatry. It is necessary that you have experience and knowledge of ESL, MI, AAC, and low-affective handling, and are accustomed to working creatively. If you have a driver's license, we see this as a positive factor as we have access to a car for our activities.

You need to be able to use our IT systems and keep documentation. Therefore, you must master the Swedish language in speech and writing, which implies a requirement of passing grades in Swedish 1, Swedish as a Second Language 1, or equivalent. 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 via the test provider Educateit.

You uphold the values of your workplace and are keen to translate these into action based on the following competence areas:

You are friendly and helpful towards other people even in stressful situations. You show respect for everyone you meet at work. You understand the common mission and work to make it as successful as possible. You are calm and confident in pressured and difficult situations. You can balance the demands placed on you and can make well-founded decisions despite time pressure.

We welcome your application!

Other

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

As an employee in the Department for Disability 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

When working in the individual's home:

Before an offer of employment, we ask you to present an extract from the police criminal record. The requested extract must be unopened.

You must request an extract from the police criminal record yourself. This is done on the police website https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/ (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/) either via e-service (Check own information in the criminal record) or with the help of the Form to check own information (Form for request for register 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 data, you should NOT apply via the system but contact the responsible recruiting manager for handling of your application.

Appointment is subject to the position not needing to be taken in the department or the city's restructuring work.

About us

We are all different. We are also alike and have the same right to a secure home, 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 Disability 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, like everyone else.

With 6,200 dedicated employees, we are Sweden's largest disability support department. We work, among other things, in residences with special support, day activities, housing support, personal assistance, and children's and short-term residences.

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

You are Gothenburg.