Vacant job

Stockholm – our capital city of millions of dreams, expectations, and ambitions. We work for everyone living here today and in the future. Now we are looking for you who want to think big, new, and different with us – for the people of Stockholm.

Welcome to us

As a support assistant with us, you will have a fun and developmental job where you, together with your team colleagues, have great scope for action. We are looking for you who want to work as a support assistant and who, together with us, want to contribute to continuing to develop the operations.

The unit has high results in both employee and user surveys. We are a well-functioning unit and received an honorary mention in the City's Quality Award 2024.

We offer

• You become part of a health-conscious and development-oriented workplace with pleasant colleagues and opportunities for exciting tasks.
• You receive an annual wellness allowance of 3,000 SEK.
• Opportunity to apply for holiday exchange.
• Read more about Stockholm City's benefits for employees.

Your role

As a support assistant, you provide support to a small group of users. All employees also have a support person role, which means having extra responsibility for some of the users.

The role includes:

• Together with your colleagues, you adapt activities and tasks for users in your team.
• You are a motivating support and guide to strengthen and facilitate the user's active participation in their activities.
• You draw up an implementation plan together with the user and/or representative, follow up on interventions, and are the closest contact for the user's network.
• For some users, you also provide support in the care needed and guide the personal assistants who accompany the users to the daily activities.
• Create good relationships with the people who are important to the user.
• Each week, each team has a meeting where user-related issues are discussed and interventions are evaluated.

The unit works actively with the method of opportunity analysis to strengthen our salutogenic view of the users and is also certified in the Pedagogical Framework since 2021, working further with different focus areas since then.

Your competence and experience

We would like you to have completed a high school program within the Child and Youth program with a focus on social work or pedagogical work, or alternatively the Care and Nursing program with specialization in the program deepening disability. Alternatively, other education that the employer considers equivalent.

You should also have:

• Experience of working in daily activities.
• Knowledge of different disabilities and their consequences, as well as knowledge of support for cognitive difficulties.
• Familiarity with different aids used to strengthen functions in people with disabilities.
• Knowledge of different types of alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) and various communication aids.
• Ability and experience in using clarifying pedagogy.
• Knowledge of the legislation governing the operations and the basic values of the LSS (Act concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments).
• Good knowledge of social documentation and knowing how to plan for and follow up on set goals together with the user and/or representative.
• Very good knowledge of the Swedish language, both in speech and writing.

We will place special emphasis on the following personal abilities and skills in this recruitment:

• As a person, you are secure, calm, and have personal maturity.
• You have a curious and receptive attitude towards how you should find the right keys to motivate the users and have an engagement and ability to motivate your surroundings and are keen to support and help others.
• You thrive with and have a good ability to collaborate with others.
• Furthermore, you are happy to share your own knowledge and experiences and are open to learning from others.
• You also have a good ability to adapt to changed conditions.
• Of course, you have a very good empathetic ability in meeting with other people and a genuine interest in working in daily activities.

Warmly welcome with your application!

Your application

For work with elderly and people with disabilities in their homes within Stockholm City, you are required to present an extract from the criminal record. The extract must not be older than six months and is ordered via the Police Authority's website.

When we make selections and decide who will be called for interviews, we will make the selection based on CV and answers to selection questions. We recruit without a cover letter to be able to focus on the competencies and experiences needed for the position.

Stockholm City works with competence-based recruitment aimed at considering each person's competence and thereby combating discrimination.

Welcome to the Kungsholmen District Administration!

The Kungsholmen District Administration covers the three islands of Kungsholmen, Lilla Essingen, and Stora Essingen.

Together we work to constantly develop our operations and provide good service to everyone living their life on Kungsholmen and the Essinge islands. Here you can read more about the Kungsholmen District Administration and you are also welcome to visit our Facebook page.

The Social Services Department is responsible for care for people with disabilities, individual and family care, economic assistance, and labor market measures, as well as field and leisure activities. In 2025, the responsibility for park play activities will transfer to the department. Employment in certain positions within the Social Services Department may require a criminal record check.