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About the Job

ACT (Assertive Community Treatment) Gothenburg is a collaboration between the South West Social Services 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 to connect with various actors within the social safety net, such as social services, probation, healthcare, but also with relatives. The work is based at the reception environment at 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 into working life (IPS).

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

Join our important work!

About You

The basic requirement for the position is that you are a trained social worker, or alternatively have at least a three-year higher education/university degree that the employer deems equivalent. You also need to have experience working with complex social issues, for example with people with substance abuse issues combined with psychosocial problems. Having a B-class driver's license is a requirement for the position.

Experience from case management within authority-exercising social services is meritorious. We also consider experience from working with the methods R-ACT, Motivational Interviewing, Low-Affective Handling, and Relapse Prevention to be 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 in the way that the situation and person require, and you show the ability to collaborate and cooperate with others, even in pressured 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 also 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 people with knowledge and skills that complement the current work group.

Other Information

Interviews will begin during the advertising period; welcome with your application!

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

Before an offer of employment, 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, choose the one named "Work in the home with elderly and persons with disabilities".

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 letter. 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.

The intended salary range for the position is 34,000 - 45,000 SEK per month. The salary is based on a combined assessment of your education, experience, and competencies you bring into the role. The City of Gothenburg applies individual and differentiated salary setting. Here you can get more information about, among other things, salary statistics: goteborg.se (https://www.goteborg.se/Jobba-i-Goteborgs-Stad/Sa-ar-det-att-jobba-i-Goteborgs-Stad/Lon-ersattningar-och-formaner).

As we have already taken a stand regarding 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 South West Social Services is one of four social services departments 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 department's mission is that children, young people, and adults can live a safe and independent life and that children and young people have a rich leisure time. The department 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 South West Social Services, we want to capitalize on the commitment of all employees. With us, you can influence both your own job and the lives of others.