Do you want to work with us?

We are now looking for an engaged support educator for our LSS group home.

Our operations are aimed at adults with disabilities who need support in their daily lives to live a safe and meaningful life.

Here we work with individualized support, recovery, participation, and structure in everyday life. We believe that every individual has resources and opportunities – our task is to create conditions for these to come forward.

Your future tasks

As a support educator, you are part of the everyday work at the unit and work closely with the users together with other staff. You have an educational assignment directed both directly at the users and at your colleagues. The assignment involves overall responsibility for maintaining and developing quality and a holistic view in the work with the users.

Your tasks may include:

• Providing support in daily routines such as meals, personal care, social activities, and contact with community agencies.
• Working based on implementation plans and documenting in accordance with applicable routines.
• Creating a safe and predictable environment with structure and responses tailored to the individual's needs.
• Promoting recovery, participation, and independence among the residents.
• Collaborating with colleagues, relatives, and other professionals.

Working hours are scheduled for days, evenings, and weekends depending on the schedule.

Who are you?

We are looking for someone who:

• Is a trained support educator or has another equivalent education in care and nursing.
• Has experience working in psychiatry, social psychiatry, or LSS.
• Has knowledge of how to respond to and support people with mental disabilities.
• Is secure, empathetic, and has a good ability to create trusting relationships. Has good collaboration skills but can also work independently.
• Has good computer skills and can express themselves well in spoken and written Swedish.

A driving license (B) is an advantage.

What can we offer you?

• A meaningful job where you make a difference in people's lives.
• A workplace with engaged colleagues and present leadership.
• Introduction, supervision, and opportunities for professional development.

Other:

Selection and interviews are ongoing, so please send in your application as soon as possible. If you have a scheduled interview, you must bring a certificate from the criminal record register.

Finspång Municipality strives to offer full-time employment. This means that work may be carried out in several units within the municipality.

We drive Finspång forward!

Finspång has a rich and varied cultural offering, unique historical environments, and meeting places. It is a vibrant industrial town with a strong business community close to surrounding cities. Together with the business community, Finspång Municipality has established a common vision that by 2035 we will have 30,000 inhabitants. Finspång is developing through a drive to meet the present and the future. Therefore, the municipality's operations are guided by the UN's global goals. By acting locally to influence globally, we want to contribute to a sustainable future for people and the environment. As an employee of Finspång Municipality, you are our most important resource. You and your colleagues improve the everyday lives of others – every day. Here you have the opportunity to make a difference, provide service to others, and take responsibility for the development of Finspång. Together we build pride and joy at a workplace characterized by openness and collaboration.

We have a benefits portal through the company Benifex; Fördel Finspång, where all our employees can take advantage of benefits, discounts, and other offers of various kinds, such as wellness grants.

To provide the best possible service to our residents, we strive for a staff composition that reflects the diversity of Finspång Municipality. In Finspång Municipality, we apply a smoke-free working time.

When you apply for a job in our recruitment system, your application is registered. This is because we are a public entity. Your application then becomes a public document once we have received it. This means that the application documents can be requested by anyone. Exceptions are applications from individuals with protected identities.

If you are applying for a job and have protected personal information, please call the contact person in the ad who will guide you further for a secure application process. You should not apply digitally via the application link.

Before employment in Finspång Municipality, a valid identification document must be presented.

For positions within elderly care, services for people with disabilities, services for children and youth, and for leading positions, a background check is included as part of the recruitment process.

In preparation for the recruitment work, Finspång Municipality has carefully considered recruitment channels and marketing. Therefore, we kindly ask for no contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, or similar.