Vacant job

Stockholm – our capital city filled with millions of dreams, expectations, and ambitions. We work for everyone who lives 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.

Hägersten-Älvsjö is one of 11 district administrations in the City of Stockholm with approximately 3,000 employees. Today, we are one of the city's largest districts with about 130,000 residents. In Hägersten-Älvsjö, you are close to the city, public transport, and nature. We offer a dynamic workplace with opportunities for you to develop in your role.

Welcome to us

The position is located at one of our group homes in Hägersten, which is an LSS (Act for Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments) operation for adults with congenital deafblindness. Our mission is to offer support and services based on the individual's needs and wishes, and we actively work to promote equality and full participation in society for our users. The work is characterized by a pedagogical approach, a structured working method, and a low-affective and respectful manner of dealing with everyone.

Here, support assistants, team leaders, method supervisors, and a unit manager work. Our work is based on LSS and the City of Stockholm's quality program, where the needs and perspectives of Stockholmers are at the center.

We offer you

We offer an exciting and developing job where the challenge lies in supporting our users in the best way possible and developing their quality of life, while basing your work on each individual's needs, wishes, and conditions. You have engaged colleagues, an accessible manager, competence development, and opportunities for participation and further development of the operations to help you.

Read more about what it is like to be part of the City of Stockholm here and about our benefits here.

Your role

As a support assistant with us, you will:

• provide support to users based on their needs and in accordance with the established implementation plan
• maintain social documentation
• develop and create working methods that both create participation and support users' communication
• develop and regularly review routines, implementation plans, and other important documents for users
• introduce new employees and supervise interns as needed.

Your competence and experience

We are looking for you who have:

• a degree from, for example, child and youth care, healthcare and social care, assistant nurse, or other education that we assess as equivalent
• experience working with people with disabilities in a similar role
• experience working with users who communicate using sign language and spoken language
• experience documenting in digital systems
• good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written.

It is meritorious if you have experience with:

• a similar role within the City of Stockholm that shows you understand our values and the pedagogical framework
• work within social support or rehabilitation
• work with users who have visual and/or hearing impairments.

To succeed in the role, you have communication that is clear and adapted to the recipient through, for example, low-affective interaction, clarifying pedagogy, or AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication). You can switch between working independently and collaborating with your colleagues. You are flexible and easily adapt to new circumstances, and you are professional and stable in challenging situations. It is important that you can bathe with users and have good hearing, as the work requires verbal communication with users and colleagues.

Other information

We recruit without a personal letter to strengthen the focus on the competencies and experiences required for this role. When assessing your application, we will only base it on your CV and a number of questions you will answer when applying for the position. We ask that you answer the questions concretely and concisely, and that there is a clear connection between your answers and your CV.

An extract from the criminal record register will be requested before employment.

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