Do you want to contribute to a meaningful everyday life for people who have experienced homelessness in Lund? We are now recruiting part-time and summer substitute staff for our operations!
About the role and your responsibilities
Being a support worker at Residential Support for Adults means that you work together with a colleague during the night, and your task is to create security during nighttime so that clients can sleep well. Your ability to remain calm and clear-headed in challenging situations is of great importance for this position.
Together with other staff members, you work to create participation and a meaningful everyday life for the individual.
Your nighttime responsibilities also include carrying out planned interventions for each client, documentation in accordance with applicable legal requirements, supervision, cleaning work, and self-checks.
The work involves scheduled night shifts with a 5-2 schedule. This means awake duty work with alternating weekends, and one week you work 5 days (Monday and Tuesday plus Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and the next week Wednesday and Thursday). The position is 80% full-time.
Being clear and setting boundaries with an empathetic approach
We are looking for you who
Are passionate about social work and especially about people with comorbidities who have also lived in homelessness for a long time. You should have some form of post-secondary education, have worked with this target group, and have experience working awake night shifts.
Meritorious qualifications include training in MI, Solution-Focused Approach, experience within harmful use and addiction, or NPF diagnoses.
To succeed in this work, you need to be good at building relationships, be low-affect, and have the ability to make quick decisions. You need to be able to take your own initiative and easily adapt to changed circumstances. Good problem-solving ability and capacity to lead yourself and others are also qualities that the employer considers important. The work also requires good empathetic ability.
What we offer you
As an employee with us, you are offered a range of benefits with a focus on balance, security, and health. Lund Municipality is a large organization with many exciting operations and opportunities for employee development. As an employee, you also have access to our benefits portal where you can easily view your benefits and manage them.
What we provide you as an employee
About us
With us, you get varied, independent, and exciting work. You receive thorough training in the role, good opportunities for professional development, and continuous support from your colleagues and manager. Our unit is characterized by a positive spirit, and we are committed to finding the best support for our users.
We are a work team with strong solution-focus, flexibility, and we all are passionate about the target group and their vulnerability but also their rights.
About the recruitment process
The advertisement applies to two permanent positions. First interviews are held digitally and on an ongoing basis from week 39 onwards. Start date by agreement.
We do not use personal letters but base our selection on screening questions.
Do you want to be part of us? Apply!
Other information
Your application materials are public documents and are handled according to the principle of public access. If you have a decision on protected personal data, we ask you to contact the person listed in the advertisement for an alternative submission route.
We are part of the Employment and Social Services Department, where approximately 600 employees provide support to Lund residents who need social services. Together, we ensure that children and young people have the best possible upbringing. We consider the situation of the entire family and that no one should come to harm. It is about providing support to adults with harmful use and addiction or mental disabilities, to those who need financial assistance, guardianship, trusteeship, or support to be able to study or work, as well as to refugees.
Here you have room to grow. Within Lund Municipality, we place knowledge at the center and create opportunities to develop in working life. We offer an inclusive work environment and the chance to make an impact and make a difference. Do you want to be one of us?