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Job Description

We are currently recruiting a support assistant for a permanent position and a support assistant for a fixed-term contract until 2026-12-31 with a possibility of extension at Åkerviolens residential home for people with special needs (BmSS).

Åkerviolens is a residential home with six tenants, catering to individuals with intellectual disabilities and autism.

Our tenants have varying and sometimes extensive care needs. In our daily work, we use methods such as low-affective interaction, clarifying pedagogy, sign support, and alternative and augmentative communication (AAC).

As a support assistant, you will support tenants based on individual needs to ensure a good and independent life. The starting point is that tenants should be involved and able to influence decisions and interventions according to their abilities. You will be a support in everyday life, ranging from communication, leisure activities, and household chores to medication management according to delegation. The work also involves collaboration with guardians, social workers, and relatives.

The role includes creating and following implementation plans based on the tenants' needs, as well as motivating tenants in their daily lives. This may involve encouraging contacts outside the home and creating conditions for a fulfilling leisure time. As a support assistant, you also contribute to creating a positive and relaxed atmosphere where there is room for joy and a pleasant mood, making everyday life more meaningful for the tenants.

All social documentation is done in Treserva. Digital tools are used by both staff and tenants, so we are looking for someone who is curious and willing to think new thoughts.

The operation is a 24/7 service based on the tenants' needs. Working hours are scheduled for days, evenings, sleeping on-call, and weekends. We use Time Care Planning for operation-adapted and influenceable schedules.

Qualifications

• We are looking for you who have a degree from the Care and Nursing program, the Support Assistant program, or the Child and Youth program with a focus on social and pedagogical work. The educational requirement is also met if you have a specialization in the disability area comprising at least 200 YH credits, 120 university credits, or 60 university credits with two years of work experience with people with disabilities. The courses should be within behavioral science, pedagogy, psychology, social work, and (psychiatric) nursing or other education that the employer considers equivalent.
• You need to have passed Swedish 1 or Swedish as a Second Language 1.
• It is a requirement that you have experience working with threats, violence, and challenging behavior.

Meritorious:

• We consider it meritorious if you have experience with the target group of intellectual disabilities and autism.
• We are looking for someone who is flexible and calm, can adapt quickly to changes, is positive and stress-resistant, and maintains a good calm even in challenging situations. We also see that you have an open and positive attitude, using the user's needs as the starting point for your actions, and showing respect and consideration for those you meet in your professional role.
• We would appreciate if you have knowledge and experience in the following methods: LAB (low-affective interaction), AAC (Alternative and Augmentative Communication), Clarifying Pedagogy, Sign Support, and IBIC (Individual Needs in Focus), study three, and training in the Durewall method.

Conditions

Selection and interviews begin during the application period.

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

Attach degree certificates and transcripts under "Other files".

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

As an employee in the Department for Support for Disabilities, 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

Include certificates for completed education in other files.

When working in the individual's home:

Before an employment offer, 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 either via e-service (Control of own information in the criminal record) or with the help of "Form to check own information" (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 your application.

Appointment is made on the condition that the position does not need to be taken in the department or the city's restructuring work.

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

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

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About Us

We are all different. We are also the same and have the same right to a secure home, a 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 Support for Disabilities, 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 dedicated employees, we are Sweden's largest department for support for disabilities. We work, among other things, in residential homes with special services, day activities, housing support, personal support, and children's and short-term residences.

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

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