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About the Workplace

Our BMSS in Olofstorp is a newly built and modern facility designed with the needs of the target group in mind, focusing heavily on safety, structure, and comfort for both residents and staff.

The facility is part of a larger housing project that has recently been expanded and consists of two fully equipped apartments with separate entrances, as well as a shared staff area that creates good conditions for collaboration, reflection, and a peaceful work environment. The work is characterized by low-arousal responses and individualized methods where predictability, stability, and continuity are central components. Through a clear holistic perspective, housing, support, activities, and social contexts are integrated into daily life, while environmental changes are minimized to reduce stress and create safety.

The target group consists of individuals with extensive support needs, often with autism and challenging behaviors. The housing combines a private, fully equipped residence with close access to staff support and the opportunity to participate in daily activities directly adjacent to the home, contributing to structure, context, and increased quality of life.

Job Responsibilities

We are now looking for two support pedagogues for our facilities on Knutsväg in Olofstorp. One position is located in the newly built Housing with Special Services (BMSS), where you will have the opportunity to be involved from the start and actively contribute to shaping methods and structure in a completely new operation. The other position is located in our existing unit, where you will become part of an established team with well-functioning routines and extensive experience with the target group. Together with an already employed support pedagogue, you will form a team of three support pedagogues who work closely together with equivalent assignments and a common approach. Through collaboration and a shared structure, you will ensure quality, continuity, and a uniform pedagogical approach in both operations.

As a support pedagogue, you play a central role in the operation and work closely with the residents on both supportive and pedagogical tasks. You actively contribute to developing, quality-assuring, and following up on methods, including working with implementation plans, planning and conducting activities, and documenting according to applicable legislation. The assignment also includes mentoring and supporting colleagues in pedagogical methods, as well as collaborating with relatives, habilitation, and other internal and external actors. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with other educators and method developers and, together with the unit manager, be involved in shaping and further developing the pedagogical work of the operation.

Qualifications

For the position of support pedagogue, a post-secondary specialization in the field of disabilities is required, comprising at least 200 YH credits, 120 higher education credits, or a combination thereof equivalent to at least four semesters of full-time studies. Alternatively, at least 60 higher education credits combined with at least two years of experience working with support and services for individuals with disabilities is required. The education should include relevant credits in areas such as behavioral science, pedagogy, psychology, social work, and psychiatric care, or other training deemed equivalent by the employer. If you do not meet the qualification requirements in Swedish 1 or Swedish as a second language 1, you may be offered to take a language test via the test provider Educateit.

The position requires experience working with individuals with intellectual disabilities and good knowledge of low-arousal responses, alternative and augmentative communication, applicable regulations regarding coercive and restrictive measures, social documentation, as well as autism and challenging behaviors. You have experience with a structured approach where clarity, continuity, and evidence-based methods are a natural part of everyday life, and you are accustomed to working with digital documentation, for example in Treserva.

As a person, you have a respectful and professional demeanor and always start from the equal value of all individuals. The role requires you to balance different demands and make well-founded decisions. You are positive with a genuine commitment to individuals with disabilities and the development of the operation. It is advantageous if you have experience leading meetings, coaching workgroups, and actively contributing to the development of common working methods.

Other

The City of Gothenburg actively works to promote equal rights and opportunities and to combat discrimination. As an employee in the Department of Functional Support, 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 the individual's home: Before offering employment, 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 can be done on the police's website https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/ (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/) either via e-service (Check your own information in the criminal record) or with the help of the form to check your own information (Form for requesting a criminal record 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 information, you should NOT apply via the system but contact the responsible recruiting manager for handling your application. Appointment is subject to the condition that the position does not need to be claimed in the department or the city's restructuring work.

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 Department of Functional Support, we provide support, services, 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 functional support administration. We work, among other things, in housing with special services, daily activities, housing support, personal support, and child and short-term housing.

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

You are Gothenburg.