About this role
Do you want to make a difference as a support assistant in daily activities?
We offer you a meaningful job where your contribution is important for our participants' development.
Hundraårsgatans Café & Service Group is located in Kortedala and is a daily activity according to LSS (the Act on Support and Service for Certain Disabled Persons). The service is aimed at individuals with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities.
About the organization
At Hundraårsgatan, we operate both café and service activities. In the café, we offer coffee and sandwiches, and together with the participants, we bake bread, buns, and cookies, as well as handle conference orders. The café is part of a meeting place for seniors, but the general public is also warmly welcome.
Our service group performs practical tasks for other operations both in-house and in the surrounding area. This may involve setting up break rooms, delivering goods, watering plants, maintaining premises, or carrying out other service tasks as needed.
We work to ensure that each participant has a day that is meaningful, developmental, and tailored to their individual circumstances and interests.
Your role as a support assistant
As a support assistant, you are responsible for supporting participants in their activities and contributing to ensuring they have a meaningful and safe day in the organization. You work to create conditions for participation, independence, and community, focusing on each participant's individual needs and goals. Your tasks are adapted to the participants' needs and circumstances. You guide and support both individual and group activities, motivate and encourage participation and development, and create structure in daily life. You work practically alongside the participants in the activities offered in the organization.
The work is conducted closely with other support assistants and support pedagogues in an engaged and collaborative team, in cooperation with the unit manager. Together, you plan, implement, and follow up on activities based on the participants' resources, interests, and goals. As the contact person for one or more participants, you are responsible for establishing and following up on implementation plans, creating work plans and routines, and documenting in Treserva.
If necessary, the support assistant may also work in other daily activities within the operational area.
Working hours are scheduled during daytime, Monday to Friday.
About you
You who are applying have either a degree from the Health and Care Program, the Child and Leisure Program with a focus on social and pedagogical work, or a support assistant training. You may also have education in restaurant and service. Alternatively, you have a specialization in the disability field that includes at least 200 higher vocational education credits, 120 university credits, or 60 university credits in combination with at least two years of experience working with individuals with disabilities. The education should include courses in areas such as behavioral science, pedagogy, psychology, social work, or (psychiatric) care, or other training deemed equivalent.
For all educational pathways, a passing grade in Swedish 1 or Swedish as a second language 1 is required. If this is lacking, you may be offered to take a language test via the testing user Educateit.
Experience working with individuals with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities is a requirement, as well as good computer skills and knowledge of social documentation. Knowledge and experience in low-arousal approaches, alternative and augmentative communication, clear pedagogical methods, sign language support, independent living, and IBIC are also required.
Experience in health and care work, as well as experience mentoring others in restaurant, café, and/or service operations, is an advantage.
You who are applying are secure and stable even under pressure, take responsibility for both your own and the group's tasks, and make thoughtful decisions. With a positive and solution-focused approach, you attend to the needs of those we serve and work diligently to achieve good results.
Other
Selection and interviews will begin during the application period.
In this recruitment, you will be asked to answer a number of questions where you describe your knowledge in the field instead of submitting a personal letter.
The City of Gothenburg actively works to promote equal rights and opportunities and to counteract discrimination.
As an employee in the Department of Functional Support, we offer you:
- Secure employment with good employment conditions
- Full-time with the possibility of part-time
- Introduction upon hiring
- Professional development
- Wellness grants, bicycle grants, and other discounts and offers
We only accept applications via our recruitment system in accordance with GDPR.
If you have protected personal information, do NOT apply through the system but contact the responsible recruiting manager for handling your application.
Appointment is subject to the position not being needed in the department or the city's transition work.
To those representing staffing and recruitment companies: For this recruitment, we have chosen recruitment channels and do not wish to receive offers of competency mediation, advertising, or recruitment assistance.
About us
We are all different. We are also all alike and have the same right to a safe home, meaningful employment, and to feel valued. With the right conditions, we can