Support Educator for Northern Inner City Group Home LSS

Stockholm – our capital city with millions of dreams, expectations, and ambitions. We work for everyone living here today and in the future. We are now looking for you who want to think big, new, and differently with us – for the people of Stockholm.

The Northern Inner City district consists of the central parts of Stockholm, Norrmalm, and Östermalm. Here we work to provide our 155,000 residents with the best services in areas such as preschool, social services, elderly care, and urban development. We welcome you who want to make a difference for the residents of the Northern Inner City.

Welcome to us

The Northern Inner City area support and service for disabilities provides interventions according to LSS.

We provide services to adults with disabilities. Our mission is to offer support and service based on individual needs and wishes, and we actively work to promote equality and full participation in community life for our tenants. The work is characterized by a pedagogical approach, a structured working method, and a low-arousal and respectful attitude towards tenants and colleagues.

We are now looking for a support educator to work at the Northern Inner City's group home LSS.

We offer

As an employee with us, you will work on exciting and varied assignments. We want you to develop, and we will develop with you. Read more about what it is like to be part of the City of Stockholm. Please also read more about our benefits Benefits for employees - City of Stockholm (https://www.stockholm.se/for-medarbetare/for-medarbetare/). We also offer wellness as a benefit in the City of Stockholm.

Your role

In the role of support educator, you will guide and implement pedagogical methods and be responsible for their development in collaboration with management. You will serve as a sounding board for other employees in the workgroup to develop working methods and guide colleagues in writing implementation plans. You will continuously update yourself on pedagogical and evidence-based knowledge and inform the workgroup about this. Your tasks also include searching, sorting, gathering, and disseminating facts, information, and new findings of significance. You will also participate in the daily tasks at the group homes. The service is staffed around the clock, so you will work on a schedule that includes morning, evening, and every other weekend work. The services have awake night shifts.

In the role of support educator, your primary responsibility is to support tenants in their daily lives in the way that each individual needs. The support is individually tailored to provide residents with a safe home and opportunities to develop based on their circumstances. The starting point is that interventions in the home are carried out together with the residents to contribute to development and independence.

Activities outside the home are part of the work as the support educator sometimes accompanies residents on various leisure activities.

Your qualifications and experience

We are looking for someone who has:

• Education as a support educator from a vocational college, 200 points
• Good computer skills and experience in documenting according to the Social Services Act (SoL) and the Act on Support and Service for Certain Disabled Persons (LSS).
• Experience working with target groups of people with intellectual disabilities

It is an advantage if you have:

• Experience in the profession as a support educator
• Knowledge of low-arousal responses
• Knowledge of self-harming behavior
• Knowledge of mental health issues

To succeed in the role of support educator, we see that you are confident and possess a high degree of personal maturity. You are service-oriented, flexible, and attentive to our residents' needs. You value diversity and understand that different backgrounds, cultures, and group affiliations can affect oneself and others in various ways. You are meticulous and eager to share your own knowledge and experiences, as well as open to learning from others. You are calm and stable as a person, have good self-awareness, and can reflect on your strengths and weaknesses. You are reflective and analytical in your thinking, and with a pedagogical perspective, you are clear in your communication. You understand how to adapt your working methods to the person and situation and have a respectful approach with good empathetic ability. You are development-oriented, good at collaborating, but also capable of taking responsibility and working independently. In this recruitment, we will place great emphasis on your personal qualities.

To work with the elderly and persons with disabilities in their homes at the City of Stockholm, you must provide an extract from the criminal record. The extract should not be older than 6 months from the date of issue. You can order an extract from the Police Authority's website: Check your own information, e-service | Police Authority (https://polisen.se/)

We welcome you to apply today. The City of Stockholm works with competency-based recruitment aimed at recognizing each person's competence and thereby counteracting discrimination.