Support Educator at Farsta District Administration

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 someone who wants to think big, new, and differently with us – for the people of Stockholm.

Our part of the city is located between the lakes Drevviken and Magelungen. Here, the Farsta District Administration employs 1,400 dedicated staff who now need a new colleague. With us, you have easy access to both the subway and commuter trains, shops, and restaurants. And close to a swimming spot in the summer and long-distance skating in the winter.

Welcome to us

Are you a support educator and want to join our team of support educators within the area of disability services in Farsta? Then this role might be for you!

We are looking for someone who, just like us, has a big heart for social work and wants to work with presence, engagement, and courage.

With us, you will have a job that is anything but boring – you will be part of a competent and collaborative support educator team, where we put the team before the individual. Here we share, support each other, and have fun along the way.

As part of our development journey within the area of disability services, we are focusing on recruiting support educators, and as a support educator with us, you will be part of our network that advises the area's management group. Within our service operations, we are making investments in welfare technology, and this work is led by the administration's digital development leader.

As an employee at the Farsta District Administration, you will be offered, among other things, an annual wellness allowance of 3000 SEK.

Your role

In summary, the role of a support educator involves responsibility for the educational work with users, focusing on ensuring high quality in both practical support and documentation and methodology. The role also includes active support for colleagues and work with quality development and collaboration.

Overall responsibilities:

• Quality assurance: The support educator is responsible for the quality of the educational work and supports both users and work teams.
• Work team: Works in parallel with support assistants and has 25% of their working time freed from direct user support for tasks related to the role.
• The role: The support educator is part of the daily work and is an ambassador for the educational framework.

User focus:

• Rights and values: The work is based on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the LSS value base (self-determination, influence, participation, and security).
• Individualized support: Ensures that working methods are adapted to the needs of users and that their feedback is collected systematically.
• Support during relocation: Acts as a resource for new users when moving into group housing/service housing or DV.

Social documentation:

• Quality assurance of documentation: Reviews and develops social documentation (implementation plans, risk assessments, work instructions) and ensures that it maintains high quality.

Colleague support:

• Mentoring and supporting colleagues: Supports colleagues in increasing user participation and self-determination, and reflects on working methods and approaches.
• Documentation and introduction: Assists in establishing individual educational solutions and ensures that implementation plans and other documentation are current and correct. Also responsible for the introduction and mentoring of new employees.

Development and quality:

• Monitoring and sharing knowledge: Keeps updated on evidence-based educational methods and shares this knowledge within the work team.
• Quality work: Participates in quality development through observations, deviation management, and by driving quality issues.
• Competence enhancement: Responsible for organizing competence-enhancing activities and training for the work group.
• Digitalization and welfare technology: Leads the work in units and keeps updated in the field of disability.

Collaboration:

• Internal and external collaboration: Collaborates with other support educators, business developers, LSS health, assistance officers, and other internal/external actors to solve current issues and develop the operations.

You will work on a schedule with varying working hours during the day/evening and weekends.

Your qualifications and experience

• Support educator training
• Experience working in group or service housing
• Genuine interest in the target group
• Stimulated by developing and inspiring others
• Responsive and empathetic
• Express yourself well in speech and writing
• Collaborate well
• Driven, patient, and development-oriented

The City of Stockholm works with competence-based recruitment aimed at considering each person's competence and thus counteracting discrimination.

To work with children, youth, the elderly, and persons with disabilities in the City of Stockholm, including work in their homes, you must provide an extract from the criminal record. The extract must not be older than six months from the date of issue.