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Residential Support Worker

Summer Substitute, Årsta Gård

Are you trained in care and support or currently studying in such a program? Do you want to work with something meaningful and create wonderful summer memories for children, youth, and adults with intellectual disabilities?

Gain valuable experience for your future career with us – in a picturesque oasis “in the city”, with a rich history. We are now strengthening our team with more residential support workers for summer substitutes.

Årsta Gård is located on the outskirts of Årsta in southern Stockholm. The facility offers adapted primary and secondary education for students with intellectual disabilities and has a Waldorf pedagogical focus. There are also accommodations, short-term care, daily activities, and leisure activities – according to LSS.

Here, life flourishes; this is a guiding star at Årsta Gård. Every day we see how the right interventions make a difference, and the work is based on our values: community, safety, and development. Through practical teaching, a clear rhythm, and supportive communication, we provide each student the opportunity to develop based on their individual circumstances.

As a residential support worker, you play an important role for the students living in our children's or short-term accommodations.

Your Responsibilities

• Be part of the team of residential support workers in our children's and short-term accommodations.
• Work varying hours, with an emphasis on evenings, weekends, and nights (sleeping on-call or awake night) with children and youth with intellectual disabilities and significant care needs.
• Handle all tasks that occur in a home.
• Support with physical care.
• Assist and participate in leisure activities.
• Provide a safe and predictable environment by actively using alternative augmentative communication aids.

About You

Requirements:

· We are looking for someone trained in care and support or currently studying in such a program and seeking summer employment.

· At least three years of experience working with our target group, children, youth, and adults with intellectual disabilities.

· You need to be able to present an acceptable extract from the criminal record. Can be ordered here: https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/

Meritorious:

· Experience working with students with intellectual disabilities, low-arousal approaches, as well as visual support and sign-supported communication (TAKK).

· Experience with Waldorf pedagogy and therapeutic educational work.

· Knowledge of documentation systems, where you must master the Swedish language in both spoken and written form.

· Additional training and specialization in Durewall, Studio 3 – low-arousal approach.

Personal Qualities

· You are a secure and warm person with a great deal of patience.

· You find it easy to communicate with others, are creative, and solution-focused.

· You are used to making quick decisions.

Details

Workplace: The Årsta Gård Foundation's children's accommodation and short-term stay.

Employment Type: As needed.

Extent: Varying

Start Date: By agreement, but no later than June 12

Salary: Hourly wage, by agreement according to the current salary structure at the workplace

Application

Send your CV and cover letter to [email protected]

Application deadline: no later than February 28, 2026.

Selection and interviews will be ongoing. The position may be filled before the advertising period expires.

Questions will be answered by:

Karen Forss, Salary & HR Specialist

[email protected] Mobile: 073-3589257