Support Educator at the Care Administration

Are you innovative and have a holistic perspective in your professional practice? Are you a team player with high flexibility and a sense of responsibility? Do you want to make a difference for our customers and work on development with forward-thinking colleagues? Then you are the one we are looking for, so warmly welcome your application!

Your Role with Us

Our work is characterized by the vision "We lift together" and with the values "Participation, Joy, Openness, and Citizen Value" as a natural part of our daily work. As a support educator, you will guide and implement pedagogical methods in customer-facing work. This includes developing educational materials for staff and you will be responsible for the pedagogical work developing in close collaboration with the unit manager. From a customer perspective, you will work with values and quality that promote the customer's participation, self-determination, and integrity.

You will participate in customer-facing work and support the workgroup towards a developing working method. Your work includes continuously updating yourself on pedagogical, evidence-based knowledge and informing and guiding the workgroup about this. Furthermore, you will work with various types of alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) that should be implemented in the individual work with the customer.

Who Are We Looking For?

We are looking for someone with post-secondary specialization in the disability area that includes at least 200 vocational training points or 60 university credits. The education should have a clear focus on the disability area in its entirety. We want you to have good knowledge and experience of both intellectual and neuropsychiatric disabilities. Training and experience in structured pedagogy/TEACCH and low-arousal responses are prerequisites for the job, as well as experience working with individuals on the autism spectrum. If you have training and experience in various communication methods/models aimed at the target group such as AAC, Conversation Mat, and Snoezelen, it is a merit.

As communication and documentation are part of your tasks, you need to handle the Swedish language in both speech and writing. We want you to have basic computer skills, and if you also have experience with social documentation, it is a merit. A B driver's license is a requirement.

As a person, you are socially competent and have good collaboration skills. You are resilient, flexible, find solutions in everyday life, and have a professional approach to everyone you meet in your work. Furthermore, you have the ability to plan and structure work from a holistic perspective. The job requires you to make independent decisions while also having the ability to respect decisions made and carry out the work on behalf of others. You work both independently and together with colleagues.

This is Us

The Care Administration's activities are aimed at the elderly and individuals who need support services, as well as those in need of home healthcare. The operations are functionally divided into four areas: support in ordinary housing, support in care and nursing homes, health and medical care, and support services. The administration also includes the authority unit, national gymnasium, and assistive technology center in Eastern Skåne.

We Offer

We offer regular networking meetings with colleagues in other areas within the entire Support Services. A development plan exists for individual employees as well as for the operational area.

We are over 7000 employees in Kristianstad municipality who make a difference in people's everyday lives, every day. With us, you will find employees who are passionate about welfare and want to develop ideas into reality. Kristianstad municipality offers several different career paths so that you can develop throughout your working life. Read more about our benefits and us as an employer here (https://www.kristianstad.se/jobbochforetagande/jobbochpraktik/kommunensomarbetsgivare.670.html).

Good to Know

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