Kungälv Municipality is looking for a Support Pedagogue

Kungälv Municipality is looking for someone who wants to make a difference! We need professional and motivated staff to deliver welfare services of high quality. Here, engagement and professional service go hand in hand while you help influence people's everyday lives and society at large. A good workplace culture and support for your personal development are important to us. Your contribution matters!

Description

We are looking for a support pedagogue for the short-term supervision (leisure activities) and short-term stay for children and youth at Näckrosen/Villa Tveten within the area of Functional Support.

The position involves working hours during the day, evening, weekends, and sleeping on-call duty on a rotating 4-week schedule. Work shifts vary according to the needs of the operations. Scheduling takes place in the Time Care Planning system, and there is some opportunity to influence your schedule.

As a support pedagogue at Näckrosen/Villa Tveten, you will work with children/youth in focus and be responsible, together with your colleagues in the operations, for implementing measures according to LSS decisions and SoL decisions. You will be part of the operational staff group and a network for all support pedagogues within the area of disability services in Kungälv Municipality.

In your role, you are expected to contribute to ensuring that the operations are development-oriented, innovative, and characterized by good quality and professionalism. Through a pedagogical and inspiring approach, you are expected to motivate, activate, and support children/youth to have a safe and meaningful leisure time.

Responsibilities

In your work as a support pedagogue, you will collaborate with the unit manager and operational leader and take an active role in shaping and developing the operations, focusing on the pedagogical perspective. Your responsibilities include both a child/youth perspective and an active role in guiding and supporting staff in a structured way in their pedagogical development.

The work includes, for example, developing, implementing, and following up work shift descriptions, methods, working methods, and routines - all in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child, established goals, quality requirements, and other routines/guidelines as well as laws and regulations governing the operations. You will also work to guide colleagues at the workplace in establishing implementation plans, support social documentation according to IBIC, and in the Treserva journal system.

You will also perform all tasks in direct work with children/youth, such as personal hygiene, cleaning, nutrition, cooking, shopping, medication, social training, culture, and leisure.

Meetings, regular communication, and collaboration with relatives and various partners around the children/youth are natural parts of the work and something you are expected to handle professionally and proactively. Since the operations are dynamic with conditions that can change unexpectedly and are based on flexibility in children's/youths' attendance, high demands are placed on your ability to initiate, solve, and drive processes/issues in a structured and goal-oriented manner.

Qualifications

Formal requirements:

• We are looking for someone with 60 higher education credits or 200 vocational higher education credits in a relevant field. The education should have a clear focus on the disability field in its entirety. You have theoretical and practical knowledge and experience working with individuals with neuropsychiatric behavioral issues, intellectual disabilities, and mental health problems. You have also worked with adapted response strategies, clarifying pedagogy, as well as alternative and augmentative communication (AAC).
• A driver's license is required.

We are looking for someone who is proactive, self-driven, and has a good ability to lead, coach, and support colleagues. You also need to have a solid sense of responsibility for your work.

You should also be accustomed to handling and responding to children and youth in various emotional states and be able to work in a risk-aware manner.

The work requires you to have a good demeanor, good collaboration skills, and a reflective approach.

You also need to have a good ability to use the Swedish language in speech and writing and have good experience using existing/new digital tools and services.

What does our recruitment process look like?

• Selection and interviews will take place continuously during the application period based on the needs of the operations.
• You must be able to provide at least two managerial references from your most recent employers.
• If you have previously held a position in Kungälv Municipality, internal references will be taken.
• For those who are not citizens of the EU/EES area, a work permit is required; this does not apply to those with permanent residency. The work permit must be presented at the time of the interview. If you are a Swedish citizen, you must be able to present a passport or national ID card.

Since the work involves contact with children, you must be able to present an extract from the police criminal record upon an offer of employment.

Extract from the criminal record (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/)

Warm welcome with your application!

Other

• Applications are only accepted digitally via kungalv.varbi.com
• Grades/certificates will be provided upon request or at a possible interview.
• Appointment will take place on the condition that the position does not need to be claimed by existing staff due to redundancy or other reasons.
• The selection process takes place continuously during the application period.
• We use digital tools, and in your work, you may need to use e-identification.
• Before any employment, we require a valid identity card showing citizenship and a valid work permit to be presented.
• Probationary employment may be applied according to collective agreements.
• Background checks will be conducted for positions where this is required by law.
• If you have protected personal information, DO NOT apply through the system but contact the recruitment manager for handling your application.
• We kindly but firmly decline all direct contact with staffing and recruitment companies as well as sellers of additional job advertisements.
• Kungälv Municipality has contracted agreements.
• Testing may occur in the recruitment process.