We are looking for a support educator for our service housing in Kortedala!

Do you want a job where you really make a difference every day? Then you might be our next support educator!

In our service housing in Kortedala, 12 tenants live in their own apartments.

Here we work to create security, independence, and quality of life – with the individual at the center and the heart in the right place.

About the role

As a support educator, you have a key role with overall responsibility for the pedagogical work. You design, develop, and follow up on working methods and interventions based on each individual's needs, goals, and conditions, ensuring quality and equality in the methods.

The operation is a service housing according to SoL and LSS for adults aged 30–65 who are mainly self-sufficient. The work is primarily characterized by motivational and support measures, with some care as needed.

Together with the workgroup:

• you establish, implement, and follow up on routines, action plans, and implementation plans.
• you are responsible for ensuring that job descriptions and work distribution are current.
• you develop and quality assure the social documentation according to applicable laws and guidelines.

You are a support and a guide for your colleagues, a close sounding board for the unit manager, and you work with methods such as MI (Motivational Interviewing), LAB (Low Arousal Approach), ESL (An Independent Life), and clarifying pedagogy.

You collaborate with relatives, guardians, and other important actors and are part of the district's pedagogical network for experience exchange and joint development.

You work closely with the tenants and provide individually tailored support in everyday life. With a coaching and motivating approach, you create, together with your colleagues, conditions for structure, participation, and self-determination based on each person's ability.

The housing offers support around the clock. Working hours are scheduled for days, evenings, and every other weekend, with scheduling in Time Care Planning, which provides operationally adapted and flexible schedules.

Together we do meaningful work that makes a real difference in people's lives. Independence and participation for our tenants permeate the entire operation.

Qualifications

We are looking for someone with training as a support or social educator, or a post-secondary specialization in the field of disabilities that includes at least 200 YH credits, 120 university credits, or 60 university credits and at least two years of experience working with support and service for people with disabilities. The training should have relevant credits in behavioral science, pedagogy, psychology, social work, and (psychiatric) care.

Communication is an important part of the work, which requires proficiency in the Swedish language both orally and in writing. This means a passing grade in Swedish 1 or Swedish as a second language 1. Those who do not meet the qualification requirements in Swedish 1 or Swedish as a second language 1 may be offered to take a language test through the test user EducateIt.

For the position, you need previous experience working as a support educator. You also have documented experience working with people with mental disabilities and good knowledge of and experience with low-arousal approaches.

It is an advantage if you have experience with MI (Motivational Interviewing), ESL (An Independent Life), and clarifying pedagogy. Experience in leading and mentoring colleagues is also seen as a benefit.

As a person, you have good pedagogical skills and an understanding that people absorb knowledge in different ways, and you adapt your communication to the recipient's conditions. You express yourself clearly in both speech and writing and ensure that your message gets through. You are change-oriented, see opportunities for development, and motivate others by constructively and pedagogically driving new ideas and working methods. You are pleasant, helpful, and respectful in your interactions, even in stressful situations.

Do you recognize yourself? Then we hope you want to be part of our team!

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 field 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 services, we offer you:

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

When working in individuals' homes:

Before an employment offer, 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. This is done on the police's website https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/ (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/) either via e-service (Control of own data in the criminal record) or with the help of the form to check own data (Form for requesting an 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 data, you should NOT apply via the system but contact the responsible recruiting manager for handling your application.

Filling the position is subject to the condition that the position does not need to be claimed in the administration or the city's restructuring work.

To those representing staffing and recruitment companies: For this recruitment, we have chosen recruitment channels and do not wish to receive offers of competence mediation, advertising, or recruitment assistance.

About us

We are all different. We are also 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 services, we provide support, service, and care to children and adults with disabilities and create opportunities for them to live a good and independent life, like everyone else.

With 6,200 dedicated employees, we are Sweden's largest support services administration. We work, among other things, within housing with special services, daily activities, housing support, personal support, and child and short-term housing.

Do you want to help contribute to a more inclusive society? Welcome to us!

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