OOF Residential Home with Special Service

Do you want to make a real difference?

Here at our care services, we work to create a meaningful everyday life for children and young people with various disabilities.

We support and encourage our users so that they can live as independently and richly as possible, with safety, joy, and community as guiding stars.

We run several operations for children and young people, including short-term accommodation, short-term supervision, youth accommodation, and residential care with special services for children.

We are currently looking for a support assistant for our residential home with special services for children in eastern Visby.

Your Responsibilities

As an employee, you will become an important part of the children's daily lives. Here you will meet children with neuropsychiatric, intellectual, and physical disabilities in a warm, homely environment. You will work based on decisions according to LSS and have close collaboration with other important people in the children's lives.

A typical workday may involve supporting during meals and morning routines, ensuring that the children get to school, welcoming them home, and providing care, such as hygiene and showering. You will create and participate in activities that inspire, develop, and bring joy, and be a safe role model and a stable presence.

The working hours are varied: days, evenings, sleeping nights, and weekends.

Who Are You?

We primarily seek someone who is a support assistant and has a high school education in health and care, child and leisure, is a trained social pedagogue and/or personal assistant, preferably with a focus on social work. A B driver's license is required for the position.

It is an advantage if you have education and/or experience working in care for individuals with intellectual disabilities, preferably with children or young people. It is also advantageous if you have experience with pedagogical methods, challenging behavior, low-arousal responses, sign language communication, and visual support, as well as knowledge of LSS, SoL, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

We are looking for someone who has a genuine commitment to working with children and young people and who sees each child's unique needs. You feel secure both in working independently and together with colleagues, contributing warmth, care, and stability in everyday life.

To thrive with us, we believe you are flexible, solution-focused, and have plenty of patience. You are confident in yourself and meet the children with a calm and professional demeanor. Your positive and service-oriented attitude means you enjoy finding creative ways to plan and carry out activities that stimulate the children's development based on their needs and wishes.

Since the work may involve both lifting and playful activities, it is required that you have good physical condition and enjoy being active – whether outdoors in fresh air or indoors.

Before an employment offer, an acceptable extract from the police's criminal record must be presented, read more here (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/barn-med-funktionsnedsattning/).

We place great importance on personal suitability according to the competencies described above.

Warm welcome with your application!

About the Social Administration

As part of Region Gotland, we at the social administration work with social interventions such as counseling, support, and treatment. Our areas of operation include social services, home healthcare, elderly care, and care for individuals with disabilities across Gotland. Around the clock, we meet people of all ages and with various needs; children, families, adults, and the elderly. Together, we enable good conditions for care, support, and service throughout life.

About Region Gotland

Region Gotland is not only Gotland's largest employer, but we are also the only region in Sweden that has municipal, health, and medical care responsibilities and regional development responsibilities within the same organization. Together with our island location, this creates conditions for good cooperation across our areas of operation.

We are over 7000 employees. Together we work for a sustainable, inclusive, and thriving community for all who visit, live, and work in Gotland. We are driving to create a safe and sustainable development across the entire island.

Gotland is a fantastic place to live, with a rich cultural life, unspoiled nature, and a creative entrepreneurial spirit. We are over 61,000 people who have chosen to live here year-round, and we would love to have more! If you want information about Gotland as a place to live and work, read more at gotland.com (https://gotland.com/leva-bo/flytta-hit/).

Through the Instagram account @viarregiongotland (https://instagram.com/viarregiongotland), we showcase the breadth of our professions and the significance of our work for society. Each week, a new employee presents their workday.

Other

Region Gotland works according to a competence-based recruitment method aimed at recognizing each person's competence and thus counteracting discrimination. We strive for a balanced gender distribution and see diversity as a strength, welcoming applicants from different backgrounds and genders.

The position is advertised on the condition that it does not need to be claimed by employees with preferential rights and that the position remains vacant.

As the world changes, Region Gotland is increasingly working with quality and safety in the recruitment process. This means that you as a candidate may be subject to certain checks before employment. You will receive information about which checks the position you are applying for may be subject to before or during the interview.

Before all employment, you as a candidate must present ID and a personal certificate.

We kindly decline offers of advertising and recruitment assistance.