OOF Residential Home with Special Services

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 to live as independently and richly as possible, with security, 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 services for children.

We are now looking for a male support assistant for our residential service for children in eastern Visby. The selection is based on the user's needs and with respect for personal integrity.

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, home-like environment. You will work based on decisions according to LSS and have close cooperation 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.

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 advantageous if you have education and/or experience working in care for individuals with intellectual disabilities, preferably with children or young people. It is also beneficial if you have experience with pedagogical methods, challenging behavior, low-arousal responses, sign 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 comfortable working both independently and 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 job may involve both lifting and playful activities, you need to have good physical condition and enjoy being active – whether outdoors in the fresh air or indoors.

Before an employment offer, an acceptable extract from the police 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 to 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 throughout 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 services 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 responsibility within the same organization. This, along with our island location, creates conditions for good cooperation across our areas of operation.

We are over 7,000 employees. Together we work for a sustainable, inclusive, and thriving society for everyone who visits, lives, and works in Gotland. We are driving the creation of a safe and sustainable development across the entire island.

Gotland is a fantastic place to live, with a rich cultural life, untouched 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. Every week, a new employee presents their workday.

Other

Region Gotland works according to a competence-based recruitment method aimed at recognizing each person's skills and thereby counteracting discrimination. We place great importance on personal suitability in accordance with the competencies described in the advertisement. We strive for a balanced gender distribution and see diversity as a strength, welcoming applicants with different backgrounds and genders.

The position will be filled on the condition that no employee with preferential rights claims it.

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 involve before or during the interview.

Before all employments, you as a candidate need to present an ID document and a personal certificate.

We kindly decline offers of advertising and recruitment assistance.