Support Assistant at BmSS Stortoppsgatan

GÖTEBORGS KOMMUN · Full-time

Göteborgs Stad, Göteborg, Sweden

About the Operation We are now recruiting a support assistant for Stortoppsgatan's service housing located at Gråberget. The unit has 8 residents. The target group is primarily young adults with varying intellectual disabilities and diagnoses within neuropsychiatric disabilities (NPF) as well as psychiatric conditions. Our daily efforts are based on the needs and wishes that each individual considers important in order to be as independent as possible. Job Responsibilities We are looking for someone who wants to work in an operation where we together develop working methods, approach, and strategies to create the best possible support for the people living with us. The residents who live here have individual needs, interests, and circumstances. We are looking for someone who takes initiative and gets things done, always with the residents' needs in focus. In your work, you motivate residents in their daily lives, both at home and outside the home. This can involve encouraging social activities and supporting contacts outside the residence. You also provide support with everyday tasks such as personal hygiene, laundry, cleaning, exercise, and cooking. You collaborate with family members, guardians, social workers, and healthcare professionals and work as part of a team where approach, method development, and a low-intensity relational style are a natural part of everyday work. In your work, you also use methods such as ESL (A Self-Reliant Life) and MI (Motivational Interviewing). The work also includes social documentation and medication management according to delegation. We work on building trusting relationships based on mutual respect, where the staff's approach is the most important tool in the work. Working in someone else's home places demands on the person who is employed. This means that staff must have a good work environment and do good work while respecting the user's integrity. Challenging behavior may sometimes occur, but there are developed action plans for how to handle these situations. Working hours are day shifts, evening shifts, on-call sleeping shifts, and every other weekend. Solo work on the unit occurs. Qualifications We are looking for someone who has a diploma from the Care and Nursing Program, Support Assistant training, or Children and Recreation Program with a focus on social or educational work. The education requirement is also met if you have post-secondary specialization within the disability field comprising at least 200 yh-credits, 120 university credits, or a combination that corresponds to at least four full-time semesters of study. Alternatively, 60 university credits and at least two years of experience working with support and services for people with disabilities. The education must have relevant credits in behavioral science, pedagogy, psychology, social work, and (psychiatric) care or other education that the employer deems equivalent. Communication is an important part of the work, which requires that you have passed Swedish 1 or Swedish as a Second Language 1. You must have documented experience working within LSS and social documentation. You must also have experience working with challenging behavior. You are calm and secure in stressful and difficult situations. You take responsibility for your work tasks and can make independent decisions and have the ability to plan and prioritize your work based on the residents' needs. You are attentive and open to understanding other people's needs, feelings, and opinions. Meritorious Qualifications It is meritorious if you have experience with the target groups neuropsychiatric disabilities and psychiatric conditions. It is also meritorious if you have experience with Low-Intensity Relational approach, A Self-Reliant Life, and Motivational Interviewing. Other Information Attach study certificates or diplomas to your application under other files. When you apply, you will describe your knowledge and experience by answering a number of questions. In the event of a job offer, you must provide an unopened extract from the Police's criminal record register. You are responsible for ordering the extract via the Police website: https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/arbete-i-hemmet-med-aldre-och-personer-med-funktionsnedsattning-e-tjanst/ Göteborgs Stad actively works to promote equal rights and opportunities and to prevent discrimination. As an employee in the Administration for Functional Support, we offer, among other things: Secure employment with good employment terms Full-time as the norm with the option of part-time Orientation for new employees Skills development Wellness allowance, cycling allowance, and other benefits and offerings Göteborgs Stad applies individual and differentiated salary setting. More information about salary, compensation, and benefits can be found on Göteborgs Stad's website: https://goteborg.se/wps/portal/start/jobba-i-goteborgs-stad/sa-ar-det-att-jobba-hos-oss/formaner-och-lon You can only submit your application through our recruitment system, as personal data is processed in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). If you have protected personal data, do NOT apply through the system; instead, contact the responsible recruiting manager. Filling is subject to the position not being needed for use in the administration's or Göteborgs Stad's restructuring work. To those representing staffing and recruitment companies: Ahead of this recruitment, we have decided which recruitment channels we use and therefore decline offers of advertising and recruitment services. About Us We are all different. We are also equal and have the same right to a secure home, meaningful employment, and to feel valuable. With the right conditions, we can grow, develop, and participate in society on our own terms. Within the Administration for Functional Support, we provide support, services, and care to children and adults with disabilities and create the opportunity for them to live a good and independent life, like everyone else. With 6,200 committed employees, we are Sweden's largest functional support administration. We work, among other things, in residences with special services, daily activities, residential support, personal support, and children's and short-term residences. Do you want to help contribute to a more inclusive society? Welcome to us! 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