Care Assistant with Focus on Dual Diagnosis – Make Gävle Even Better!

Do you want to help make Gävle even better with us? At Gävle Municipality, we work together with dedication to offer our residents a safe and inspiring environment. We offer you a workplace built on trust, where you can develop professionally and grow as a person. We welcome your application!

1 position(s).

RESPONSIBILITIES

The role of Care Assistant with a focus on dual diagnosis involves meeting clients who have been granted Housing Support but, in addition to their mental health issues, also have substance abuse problems.

You work in a motivational and pedagogical manner to help individuals with a combination of mental illness and substance abuse issues. The goal is to break isolation, find new contexts, create a functioning and secure daily life in their own home, and facilitate contact with healthcare and authorities. You work to strengthen the client's own resources, reduce the harmful effects of addiction, and improve quality of life.

Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Supporting and motivating the client to perform household tasks such as cleaning, laundry, and shopping. This is done together with the client to build independence.
• Continuous follow-up of the client's weekly schedule, such as attending appointments with Psychiatry, Social Services, Probation, Change Leaders, etc., and being present as support during these meetings if needed.
• Motivating the maintenance of contact with networks and family. In cases of homelessness, you meet the client in whatever forms are possible and work more outreach-oriented.
• Using conversation methods such as MI (Motivational Interviewing) and low-affective handling to help the client manage their situation and make choices that help them move forward.
• Working with CRA (Community Reinforcement Approach) and strengthening factors that promote drug-free living in the person's immediate environment.
• Supporting contacts with healthcare, psychiatry, and addiction care.
• Helping the user get out to work or meaningful leisure activities such as self-help meetings, meeting points e.g., Svea Café to break isolation.

QUALIFICATIONS

The work is based on an individually created implementation plan that you create together with the user. Continuous record-keeping and reporting according to current legislation (Social Services Act, SoL) to monitor and evaluate interventions. You participate in SIP (Coordinated Individual Plan) and collaborate with assistance handlers, nurses, therapists, and other key actors around the user. You work to strengthen collaboration with the Outpatient Unit for Adults when needed. You work to promote collaboration with external actors and create necessary networks around the client based on needs and wishes.

Formal Competencies:

• Approved education from the Care and Nursing Program with a focus on psychiatry, or approved education from the Care and Nursing Program with work experience from psychiatry, social pedagogue, treatment pedagogue, or treatment assistant.
• Valid driver's license (Category B)
• You have at least 2 years of work experience in dual diagnosis, mental illness, and addiction.
• You master the Swedish language in both speech and writing.
• Good experience of internal and external collaboration.

We are looking for you who have the ability to work with other people; to listen, show empathy, and respect. You are unpretentious and recognize and reward others' contributions. You have an unpretentious approach in your collaboration with others. You see logic and connections in complex information and have the ability to see long-term solutions. You take initiative, are courageous, and have the ability to distinguish between matters and persons. You take initiative in social contexts and have the ability to create trusting relationships.

Employment Type: Permanent.
Duration: Permanent.
Working Hours: Shift schedule.

We Offer You

You are important to us! As an employee at Gävle Municipality, you have:

• Generous holiday terms, and as a new employee, you are entitled to paid leave already during your first year of employment.
• Compensation for fitness and exercise when you have been employed for more than three months.
• Various insurances through our collective agreements, for example, including sickness insurance and occupational accident insurance.

Read more about our benefits here: https://www.gavle.se/jobba-hos-oss/upptack-vara-formaner-for-trygghet-och-balans/ (https://www.gavle.se/jobba-hos-oss/upptack-vara-formaner-for-trygghet-och-balans/)

Our Values

Quality, treatment, and collaboration are the most important success factors for solving our mission in the best way. To do the right things and act wisely in our daily lives, it is important that we base ourselves on our jointly stated values.

Read more about us as an employer and what it is like to work at Gävle Municipality here: https://www.gavle.se/jobba-hos-oss/ (https://www.gavle.se/jobba-hos-oss/)

Here you can read more about our organization: https://www.gavle.se/kommun-och-politik/kommunens-organisation/ (https://www.gavle.se/kommun-och-politik/kommunens-organisation/)

Gävle Municipality belongs to the Finnish administrative area. Therefore, if you speak Finnish in addition to our other competency requirements, it can be an asset.