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We are all different. We are also all alike and have the same right to a safe 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 support for people with disabilities, we provide support, service, and care to children and adults with disabilities and create opportunities for them to live a good and independent life, just like everyone else. By spreading knowledge and collaborating within the City of Gothenburg and with other actors, we increase understanding of individuals' needs and design interventions that make a real difference.

With 6,200 dedicated employees, we are Sweden's largest support administration for people with disabilities. We work within housing with special services, daily activities, employment, housing support, personal assistance, children's and short-term housing, respite care, as well as support and guidance.

Would you like to help contribute to a more inclusive society? Welcome to us!

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JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

We are now looking for a support pedagogue for the service housing Hinderbana in the Northeast!

We offer you a varied job with great responsibility with an interesting target group where your contribution makes a difference in people's lives.

Hinderbana is a BmSS with 8 housing places focused on the psychiatric target group. The users need support from staff to create functioning routines and maintain structure in everyday life as well as motivation to promote independence. Challenging behavior occurs in the operation as well as various types of self-harm behavior. Care is provided.

We work with low-affect responses (LAB), AAC (alternative/augmentative communication), and MI (motivational interviewing) and thereby strive to create a meaningful existence and good communication for and with the users.

As a support pedagogue, you have overall responsibility for the pedagogical work within the operation. You will establish working methods and approaches and ensure that these are used and developed effectively. Together with the workgroup, you will establish, implement, and follow up on routines, action plans, and job descriptions. You will ensure that social documentation and implementation plans according to IBIC are established, further developed, and followed according to laws and guidelines. You will be driving the unit's systematic quality work, as well as guiding, quality assuring, and supporting colleagues in social documentation.

Together with other support pedagogues in the city area, you will be part of a support pedagogue network led by method developers. You will have contact with relatives, guardians, case managers, and home care/rehab to ensure the user receives good care, support, and service. You will be responsible for holding operational meetings. An important part of your mission is to encourage and work for good collaboration with all individuals in the person's network. You will have support from method developers in your work.

Working hours are during the day, evening, and every other weekend. We have a flexible base schedule. Working hours are partly allocated in the operation with close work with users in combination with pedagogical time. We use TimeCare Planning for operationally adapted and flexible schedules.

QUALIFICATIONS

For the position of support pedagogue, post-secondary specialization in the area of disability is required, which includes at least 200 YH credits or 60 higher education credits or a combination that corresponds to at least two semesters of full-time studies. The education must have a clear focus on the area of disability in its entirety.

If you do not meet the qualification requirements in Swedish 1 or Swedish as a second language 1, you may be offered to take a language test through the testing user Educateit.

Experience as a support pedagogue and experience in psychiatry and neuropsychiatry is required for the position. You must also have experience and knowledge of IBIC, ESL, MI, low-affect responses (LAB). We consider it an advantage if you have knowledge of AAC - Alternative Augmentative Communication. To thrive in the role and perform well, the following personal qualities are required.

• Pedagogical: You gain energy from contributing to others' learning and create conditions for learning to occur. You have the ability to explain problems and information to different recipients and from different perspectives.
• Collaborative: You have the ability to work together with others to perform tasks and achieve goals. By being interested and creating understanding for others, you contribute to a respectful work climate.
• Stable/Secure: You work effectively under stress, can balance different demands, and maintain calm in difficult situations. You distinguish between the issue and the person and can make well-founded decisions under time pressure.

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 area instead of sending a personal letter.

The City of Gothenburg actively works to promote equal rights and opportunities and to counteract discrimination.

As an employee in the administration for support for people with disabilities, we offer you:

• Secure employment with good employment conditions
• Full-time with the possibility of part-time
• Introduction upon hiring
• Professional development
• Wellness benefits, bike benefits, and other discounts and offers

When working in the individual's home: Before offering employment, we ask you to present an extract from the police's criminal record. The ordered extract must be unopened. You must request an extract from the police's criminal record yourself. This is done on the police's website https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/ (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/) either via e-service (Check your own information in the criminal record) or with the help of the Form to check your own information (Form for requesting a record extract for an individual, extract no. 442.3)

We only accept applications via our recruitment system in accordance with GDPR.

If you have protected personal information, you should NOT apply via the system but contact the responsible recruiting manager for handling your application.

Appointment will occur on the condition that the position does not need to be utilized in the administration or the city's restructuring work.