Support Assistants for Psychiatric Residential Care in Southwest

GÖTEBORGS KOMMUN · Full-time

Göteborgs Stad, Göteborg, Sweden

Opaltorget is a residential facility with specialized services focused on mental health and neuropsychiatric disabilities. We are seeking two support assistants for our residential facility. We offer the opportunity to develop and shape our operations together with us. At Opaltorget, eight support assistants, a methodology supervisor, and a unit manager currently work together. You and your colleagues will contribute to creating a stimulating environment and a creative workplace. Are you looking for varied work where you can take on significant responsibility? Read on! About the Job As a support assistant, you will center the individual's needs, abilities, and interests, supporting residents in their daily lives and in their right to self-determination. You work creatively and innovatively with motivation to promote the development of the resident's own resources. Together with residents, you work to provide the best possible conditions for an independent life with high quality of life. You work based on individually developed implementation plans. We will use the methods An Independent Life (ESL), Motivational Interviewing (MI), low-arousal approach (LAB), and Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AKK). The work includes social documentation and collaboration with both internal and external parties who are key persons in the resident's life. We want to create teams where employees' strengths are utilized appropriately and contribute to a work environment with a relaxed atmosphere and solution-focused discussions. Work will be scheduled for days, evenings, and three out of six weekends. We use Multiaccess for scheduling and work with collaboration time. Qualifications We are looking for someone with a degree from the Care and Service Program, Support Assistant training, or Children and Leisure Program with a focus on social or educational work. The education requirement is also met if you have a post-secondary specialization in the disability field comprising at least 200 yh-points, 120 higher education credits, or a combination thereof equivalent to at least four terms of full-time studies. Alternatively, 60 higher education credits and at least two years of experience working with support and services for people with disabilities. The education should include relevant credits in behavioral science, pedagogy, psychology, social work, and (psychiatric) care or other education that the employer considers equivalent. You have previous experience working as a support assistant and experience in psychiatry and neuropsychiatry. It is necessary that you have experience and knowledge of ESL, MI, AKK, and low-arousal approach and are accustomed to working creatively. If you have a driver's license, we see that as a positive since we have access to a vehicle for our activities. You need to be able to use our IT systems and maintain documentation. You must therefore have proficiency in Swedish both spoken and written, which requires passing grades in Swedish 1, Swedish as a Second Language 1, or equivalent. If you do not meet the qualification requirements in Swedish 1 or Swedish as a Second Language 1, you may be offered a language test through the test administrator Educateit. You embody the values of your workplace and are committed to translating them into action based on the following competency areas: You are friendly and helpful toward others even in stressful situations. You show respect for everyone you meet at work. You understand the shared mission and work to make it as successful as possible. You remain calm and confident in pressured and difficult situations. You can balance the demands placed on you and can make well-founded decisions despite time pressure. We welcome your application! Other Information Gothenburg City actively promotes equal rights and opportunities and works against discrimination. As an employee in the Disability Support Administration, we offer you: - Secure employment with good employment terms - Full-time with the possibility of part-time - Introduction upon hiring - Skills development - Health promotion allowance, bicycle allowance, and other discounts and offers Gothenburg City applies individual and differentiated salary setting. Here you can find more information about, among other things, salary statistics: https://goteborg.se/wps/portal/start/jobba-i-goteborgs-stad/sa-ar-det-att-jobba-hos-oss/formaner-och-lon Before offering employment, we ask you to provide an extract from the police criminal records register. The ordered extract should be unopened. You must request an extract from the police criminal records register yourself. This is done on the police website: https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/arbete-i-hemmet-med-aldre-och-personer-med-funktionsnedsattning-e-tjanst/ We only accept applications through our recruitment system in accordance with GDPR. If you have protected personal information, you should NOT apply through the system but instead contact the responsible recruiting manager to handle your application. Placement is subject to the condition that the position does not need to be used by the administration or the city's restructuring efforts. About Us We are all different. We are also equal and have the same right to a secure home, meaningful activities, and feeling valued. With the right conditions, we can grow, develop, and participate in society on our own terms. Within the Disability Support Administration, we provide support, services, 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 committed employees, we are Sweden's largest disability support administration. We work in, among other areas, residential facilities with specialized services, day activities, residential support, personal assistance, and children's and short-term care. Do you want to contribute to a more inclusive society? Welcome to us! You are Gothenburg