Vacant job

About the Job

We are now looking for a support educator for our accommodation with special services located next to Askimsviken.

Here, eight tenants live, and the target group is individuals with intellectual disabilities/autism. The position is a temporary contract that runs from 15/6-2026 to 30/4-2027.

As a support educator, you are a role model in the pedagogical work to meet the needs of the users and work towards a good quality of life. We are looking for someone who is attracted to the task of working with alternative communication and low-arousal responses. Your role also includes mentoring your colleagues and ensuring the quality of social documentation. The tasks involve everything from creating structure in daily life, motivational work, to guiding and supporting the user.

Together with other staff, you are responsible for creating a qualitative accommodation where the tenant is involved in their life and the community. You collaborate based on individual implementation plans to create as independent a life as possible for our tenants. Since leisure interests and communication are important parts of life, this is something we wish to develop for our users. Part of your role will therefore be to inspire them to try new things and dare to explore. You will work closely with the unit manager so that together we can achieve the goals for those we are here for.

Furthermore, you will be responsible for operational meetings and lead recurring follow-ups and evaluations of responses, attitudes, interventions, and working methods. Together with your colleagues, you will discuss and reflect on yourselves in relation to the user, relatives, and the work team. The purpose of this work is improvement, development, and evaluation. An important part of your role as a support educator is also to work with team collaboration around the user, where you are, for example, the convener for meetings with other professionals, such as nurses, physiotherapists, and occupational therapists.

We offer a job with opportunities for personal responsibility, development, and the chance to make a difference. As support in your role, there is an active support educator network in the city area with regular meetings for development in the role of support educator as well as experience and competence exchange.

The working hours are partly allocated to work closely with the users in combination with pedagogical time. We work day and evening shifts as well as sleeping on-call.

We look forward to receiving your application!

About You

We are looking for someone who has post-secondary specialization in the disability field that includes at least 200 YH points, 120 university credits, or 60 university credits with two years of work experience with people with disabilities. The education should have relevant credits in behavioral science, pedagogy, psychology, social work, and (psychiatric) care or other education that the employer deems equivalent.

For the job, good computer skills and knowledge of social documentation are required. You who apply have experience working in a low-arousal manner as well as alternative and augmentative communication. If you also have experience with the IBIC method (individual needs in focus), it is considered an advantage. We would also like you to have worked with individuals with autism. If you have previous experience working as a support educator or in a similar role, this is an advantage. It is also beneficial if you have experience working in Treserva.

To be able to document, you need to master the Swedish language in speech and writing, which means a requirement for approved grades in Swedish 1, Swedish as a second language 1, or equivalent. Those who do not meet the qualification requirements in Swedish 1 or Swedish as a second language 1 may be offered to take a language test through the testing user Educateit.

You take responsibility for your and the group's tasks and are friendly and helpful towards others even in a stressful situation. You work well with others by listening, showing interest, and respect. You have a good understanding of how individuals absorb knowledge and their different conditions.

Other

Selection and interviews will begin during the application period.

In this recruitment, you will be asked to answer a number of questions where you describe your knowledge in the field instead of sending a personal letter.

The City of Gothenburg actively works to promote equal rights and opportunities and to combat discrimination. As an employee in the administration for support services, we offer you:

• Secure employment with good employment conditions
• Full-time with the possibility of part-time
• Introduction upon hiring
• Competence development
• Wellness allowance, bike allowance, and other discounts and offers

When working in the individual's home: Before an offer of 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 is 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 utilized in the administration or the city's restructuring work.

To those representing staffing and recruitment companies: For this recruitment, we have chosen recruitment channels and do not wish to receive offers of competence mediation, advertising, or recruitment assistance.

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 administration for support services, we provide support, service, 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 support services administration. We work, among other things, within accommodations with special services, daily activities, housing support, personal support, and child and short-term accommodations.

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

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