We are looking for a Support Educator

We are looking for a support educator who works based on: commitment, innovation, and the equal value of all, and who wants to contribute to driving a qualitative care work for our service users within LSS.

Your mission

As a support educator, you have a statutory and professional responsibility for the established support services according to LSS (the Act concerning Support and Service). You are part of a team of support workers, support assistants, and care educators.

In your role as a support educator, you perform the same tasks as support workers and support assistants. In addition to this, you are also responsible for ensuring that documentation, guidelines, and educational methods are followed. You provide support and service based on the service user's needs and wishes, as well as based on an individual implementation plan.

The support services are based on the service user's individual needs to promote abilities, integrity, participation, and self-determination. A workday may include providing support and assistance with meals, activities, household chores, shopping, laundry, and other tasks that the person you support needs help with. It also includes the maintenance of the unit's premises.

In addition, you are responsible for maintaining a close and good collaboration with relatives, trustees/guardians, and other professionals in health and medical care.

Working hours are irregular, including day, evening, on-call, night, and weekend shifts.

Other tasks include:

Quality assurance of operations based on the service users' support needs
Guidance in methods and strategies within the work team

Your experience

Trained support educator or equivalent pedagogical education, for example, post-secondary education of 200 credits or 60 HP in the field of disabilities/behavioral sciences.
Experience in establishing and following up on implementation plans and other social documentation.
Experience in implementing educational methods and work practices.
Good knowledge of supportive pedagogy and educational methods.
Proficient in the Swedish language, both verbally and in writing, and have good computer skills.
Previous experience of actively working as a support educator within LSS or other experience deemed equivalent by the employer.

Merits include:

Experience in working with welfare technology and ensuring the quality of work.
Knowledge of low-arousal approaches.
Experience in working with welfare technology and ensuring the quality of work.
Knowledge in pedagogy, psychology, and disabilities.

Is this you?

You are confident in yourself and exude calm and harmony. You are genuinely interested in understanding people, supporting both service users and colleagues in their work based on different conditions and needs. For you, adapting to requirements and pedagogy is a natural part of the job. It is important for you to provide good service and support through professional interaction. Furthermore, you have good collaboration skills and a knack for inspiring others to achieve the organization's goals.

We consider it natural that you work based on the municipality's values: Commitment, Innovation, and the Equal Value of All.

We offer

With us, you have the opportunity to work with a wide target group and make a difference in people's everyday lives. Working with us involves great commitment and care for each other, with a focus on development and quality, both among service users and staff.

About the workplace

In the LSS residence, 17 service users live on five floors. The service users live with disabilities/neuropsychiatric disabilities, mental health issues, and autism. Outwardly aggressive behavior may occur. The staff work with close care as well as simple support in the service users' daily lives.

Other

In this recruitment, we work with ongoing selection, which means that we continuously evaluate applications. All applications are considered, and no one will be hired before the advertisement expires.

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally. If you encounter any issues with the application, please contact Visma support at 0771-693 693.

Your application documents are public records and are handled in accordance with the principle of public access to official records. If you have a protected identity, you apply by submitting your application in writing or by leaving it at the Contact Center at Gröna Torg 2. Mark your application with the Recruitment Department and the advertisement's reference number.

According to the Act (2013:852) on register checks, you must be prepared to provide a record extract (no more than one year old) from the police's criminal record. The extract is ordered by the job seeker themselves from the National Police Board. The form can be obtained at www.polisen.se or at the nearest police station.

Employees are sought under the condition that the position is not required by already employed personnel or individuals with preferential rights.