Vacant job

About the job

Do you want to make a difference as a support assistant for people living in housing with special support services? We are looking for a new colleague who wants to provide support in daily life, both inside and outside the home.

Tunnlandsgatan housing offers 10 places for adults aged 18–65 with acquired brain injuries and mental health issues. The work includes lifting techniques, personal care, activities, cooking, cleaning, and collaboration with healthcare. You will also encourage leisure activities and create conditions for a fulfilling free time based on the tenants' interests. The goal is for residents to receive individualized support to live as independently as possible, promoting health, rehabilitation, and leisure engagement.

At Tunnlandsgatan, we work based on the individual needs of our users, focusing on care, rehabilitation, and motivational work. The target group consists of people with acquired brain injuries, as well as those with mental health issues and neurodevelopmental disorders (ND). This requires staff to be attentive and able to adapt their communication.

The role also involves collaboration with legal guardians, social secretaries, relatives, and healthcare personnel, as well as social documentation and medication management according to delegation. By following implementation plans, we ensure that the tenants' needs remain the focus. We also share various ombudsman roles and serve as contact persons.

We value a rehabilitative and motivating approach, as well as the ability to collaborate in interdisciplinary teams. To succeed in this role, you need empathy, respect, and a genuine interest in seeing the person behind the disability, understanding your mission to support and motivate the tenant based on their abilities and conditions.

Working hours are scheduled during days, evenings, and weekends. We use Time Care Planning for flexible and operationally adapted schedules.

About you

We are looking for you who have a degree from the Care and Nursing Program, Support Assistant Education, or the Child and Youth Program with a focus on social or pedagogical work. The educational requirement is also met if you have a post-secondary specialization within 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 working with support and services for people with disabilities. The education should have relevant credits in behavioral science, pedagogy, psychology, social work, and (psychiatric) care, or other education deemed equivalent by the employer. If you are trained as a nurse assistant, this is an advantage.

Requirements for the position include documented previous experience in the care and nursing sector. You have experience with neurodevelopmental disabilities, care, work with the target group of acquired brain injury and/or mental health issues.

Communication is an important part of the job, requiring you to have passed Swedish 1 or Swedish as a Second Language 1. 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.

If you have experience with any of the following methods, it is to your advantage:

• AKK (Alternative and Augmentative Communication)
• LAB (Low-Affect Handling)
• MI (Motivational Interviewing)
• Clarifying Pedagogy
• ESL (An Independent Life)
• IBIC (The Individual's Needs at the Center)

You are friendly and helpful towards others, even in stressful situations. You are attentive and open to understanding other people's needs, feelings, and opinions. You are receptive to what others say or express and show respect, consideration, and care in your interactions. You adapt the way you convey your message to the recipient and encourage dialogue, participation, and engagement. You are calm and confident in pressured and difficult situations.

Other

Gothenburg City works actively to promote equal rights and opportunities and to counteract discrimination.

As an employee in the Disability Support Administration, 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

For work 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/ either via e-service (Control of 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.

Appointment is subject to the position not being needed for administration or city restructuring purposes. To you who represent staffing and recruitment agencies: For this recruitment, we have chosen recruitment channels and do not welcome offers of competence mediation, advertising, or recruitment assistance.

We look forward to receiving your application!

About us

We are all different. We are also alike and have the same right to a safe home, meaningful engagement, and to feel valuable. With the right conditions, we can grow, develop, and participate in society on our own terms.

Within the Disability Support Administration, we provide support, services, and care to children and adults with disabilities, creating 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 administration. We work in areas such as housing with special support, day activities, supported housing, personal assistance, and children's and short-term housing.

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

You are Gothenburg.