Vacant job

Job Description

We are now looking for a new support assistant for our service housing facility in the City Centre at Kabelgatan 2. We opened in September 2022 and consist of 8 apartments where the target group is primarily people with psychiatric diagnoses.

The tenants in the service housing have various psychiatric diagnoses, substance abuse issues, co-morbidity, or high-functioning autism. Your task is to work together with your colleagues to create a service residence where we promote self-determination, participation, and where tenants are inspired and motivated to use, challenge, and develop their abilities. We work with individualized pedagogical solutions to give each tenant good conditions for success and thereby development. The residence is a 24/7 operation where we base our work on the tenants' needs and may need to revise working hours accordingly.

We work according to evidence-based methods such as ESL (An Independent Life), MI (Motivational Interviewing), LAB (Low-Affective Approach), and clear pedagogy. As a support assistant, the role includes being a contact person, which means you have extended responsibility for one or more tenants. This includes, among other things, developing individually adapted working methods, social documentation, and collaborating within the professional network surrounding the tenant. As support for you in this work, there is a support pedagogue at the unit.

You will contribute to and be part of a good work environment, which creates a favorable climate for the development of both tenants and colleagues. Together, we do important and meaningful work that makes a difference in people's lives. The duties also include medication management according to delegation and common household chores such as cooking, laundry, and cleaning.

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 working with support and services for people with disabilities. The education should have relevant credits in behavioral science, pedagogy, psychology, social work, and (psychiatric) nursing or other education that the employer deems equivalent.

Communication and documentation are an important part of the work, which requires that you 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.

It is meritorious if you have experience working in psychiatry and also with people within substance abuse and co-morbidity. If you also have knowledge of working with methods such as MI (Motivational Interviewing), ESL (An Independent Life), and LAB (Low-Affective Approach), this is meritorious.

You can quickly change your perspective and attitude and see possibilities in changes. 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 approach. You are pleasant and helpful to other people even in stressful situations. You show respect for everyone you meet at work. You work to ensure the user gets what they need. You can see your work as part of a larger context and understand how it affects and is affected by other parts of the organization.

Other

Selection and interviews will begin during the application period.

In this recruitment, you will answer a number of questions where you describe your knowledge in the area instead of sending a cover letter.

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

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

• Secure employment with good employment 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 is made, 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 your own details in the criminal record) or with the help of a Form to check own details (Form for request for extract from register for individual, extract no. 442.3).

We only accept applications via our recruitment system in accordance with GDPR.

If you have protected personal data, you MUST 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.

The City of Gothenburg applies individual and differentiated salary setting. Here you can get more information about, among other things, salary statistics.

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

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 Disability Support Department, 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 engaged employees, we are Sweden's largest disability support department. We work, among other things, in housing with special service, day activities, housing support, 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.