Support Educator Needed in Northern City Center

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 City Center 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 preschool, social services, elderly care, and urban development. We welcome you who want to make a difference for the residents of Northern City Center.

Welcome to Us

The Northern City Center area provides support and services for individuals with disabilities according to LSS.

We provide services to adults with disabilities. Our mission is to offer support and services 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 who wants to work at one of Northern City Center's LSS service housing.

We Offer

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

Your Role

In the role of support educator, you will guide and implement pedagogical working methods and be responsible for their development in collaboration with management. You will be 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 will also include searching, sorting, gathering, and disseminating facts, information, and new findings of significance. You will also perform daily tasks at the service housing. The operations are staffed around the clock, so you will work on a schedule that includes morning, evening, every other weekend work, and sleeping on-call 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 conditions. The starting point is that interventions in the home are carried out together with the residents to contribute to development and independence.

Your Competence and Experience

We are looking for someone who has:

• Educated as a support educator from a vocational college, 200 credits
• Good computer skills and experience documenting according to the Social Services Act (SoL) and the Act on Support and Service for Certain Disabled Persons (LSS).
• Experience working with the target group with neuropsychiatric diagnoses and/or intellectual disabilities.
• Experience working in service housing according to LSS

It is an advantage if you have:

• Experience in the profession as a support educator
• Knowledge of low-arousal approaches
• Knowledge of self-harming behavior
• Knowledge of mental health issues and substance abuse.

To succeed in the role of support educator, we see that you are secure and possess a high degree of personal maturity. You are service-oriented, flexible, and attentive to our residents' needs. You are meticulous and willing to share your own knowledge and experiences while being 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 communicate clearly. You understand how to adapt your working methods to the person and situation and have a respectful attitude with good empathetic ability.

To work with the elderly and individuals with disabilities in their homes, you must present an extract from the criminal record. The extract must 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/)

Welcome to apply today. The City of Stockholm works with competency-based recruitment aimed at recognizing each person's skills and thus counteracting discrimination.