Support Educator for Short-Term Supervision and Respite Care

We are looking for someone to work as a support educator in our units for short-term supervision and respite care.

Do you want to support our users to a meaningful and active life? Then you might be one of our new employees!

Do you want to be one of us and make a difference every day? We are looking for support educators for our units within short-term supervision/respite care for children and young people under LSS. With us, you will have the opportunity to work pedagogically with planning and follow-up, where you, together with our support assistants and educational coordinators, support our users.

In the units, the users have a great need for support, and challenging situations may occur. We consider it an advantage if you have experience working with challenging behavior of both physical and verbal nature. We work in a dynamic environment, so we are looking for someone who is confident in their professional role and is used to working independently.

About Us

In our units for short-term supervision and respite care, we work to support our users in their daily lives with care, leisure, and cultural activities. The unit caters to children, adolescents, and young adults with autism and other disabilities aged 13 and up.

The operation is open 24/7, which means you will work irregular hours and every other weekend, and night shifts may occur. In a full-time position as a support educator, support assistant, and support aide, you will work 36.33 hours per week.

Short-term supervision is for individuals with disabilities who no longer have the right to after-school care but still need it. Supervision is offered before and after school, as well as during breaks and study days, and is aimed at individuals from 13 years until they graduate from high school. Short-term supervision offers relaxing and active leisure activities that provide both physical and mental stimulation, allowing users to socialize with other youth under adult supervision.

Respite care means that individuals with disabilities have the opportunity for a change of environment while their relatives receive relief. We cater to both children and adults, and our users are offered stays both during the week and on weekends. The stay provides the user with an opportunity for a change of environment, stimulation, and community with others, and can also be good training for those who want to move out of their parents' home.

The schedule is day/evening/weekend with a full-time measure of 36.33 hours/week. Night shifts may occur.

We Offer You

"As a support educator, you have more responsibility for the overall coordination of the operation. I ensure that we have updated knowledge in the workplace and work a lot with clarifying pedagogy." - Glenn. Please read our interview with support educator Glenn, who works at one of our LSS homes in the municipality. Read more here (https://lund.se/arbete-och-lediga-jobb/sa-ar-det-att-arbeta-med-oss/mot-vara-medarbetare/glenn-ar-stodpedagog-pa-lss-boende).

As an employee with us, you are offered a range of benefits focusing 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 see and manage your benefits. Read more here (https://lund.se/arbete-och-lediga-jobb/sa-ar-det-att-arbeta-med-oss/det-har-ger-vi-dig-som-medarbetare).

Job Responsibilities

Together with the educational coordinator and unit manager, you will structure and plan the long-term work of the operation.

• Plan, execute, and follow up on tasks together with the work team.
• Provide users with the individual support they need.
• With the user in focus, stimulate full participation in society.
• Be a support to the work group in user-related work.
• Compile and follow up documentation regarding users.
• Follow up and ensure that the contact person plan is the foundation of daily work.
• Work intentionally with the users' goals in the operation and strive for good goal fulfillment.

You are expected to collaborate with various societal actors and networks that are important based on individual needs, as well as provide support in environmental monitoring, and create conditions for applying evidence-based practice and using a systematic approach.

Qualifications

• Post-secondary specialization in the disability field covering at least 200 YH points or 60 higher education credits or a combination thereof equivalent to at least two semesters of full-time studies.
• Experience working with the target group and LSS.
• Knowledge of low-arousal responses.
• Knowledge and experience of autism.
• Experience with clarifying pedagogy/TEACCH.
• Basic knowledge of digital work tools, i.e., documentation in journals, etc.
• Good knowledge of the Swedish language in speech and writing.

We use side-by-side bikes in our operations, so it is a wish that you can and want to cycle with our youth.

Recruitment Process

In this recruitment, we have removed the personal letter from the application process and replaced it with selection questions. Your answers will therefore be an important part of our selection work.

We are recruiting continuously and will start the recruitment with team interviews during weeks 46 and 47. Final interviews will be held during weeks 48 and 49.

Welcome with your application!

Before employment in positions involving care and support work, you need to provide an acceptable extract from the criminal record:

Check your details in the criminal record (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/kontrollera-dina-uppgifter-i-belastningsregistret/)

For work within LSS, you also need to order:

Order extract for children with disabilities (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/barn-med-funktionsnedsattning/)

Within the care and support administration, approximately 3,400 employees work to ensure that elderly people and individuals with disabilities can live an active, social, and meaningful life on their terms. We are responsible for, among other things, the municipality's elderly homes, home care, support for individuals with disabilities, home nursing, and meeting points for seniors. With us, each individual's needs are at the center, and our operations are characterized by participation, choice, flexibility, and quality with respect for individual integrity and self-determination.

Here you have space to grow. Within Lund Municipality, we put knowledge at the center and create opportunities for development in working life. We offer an inclusive work environment and the chance to influence and make a difference. Do you want to be one of us?