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Do you want a meaningful and challenging job where you can make a difference for children and young people every day? We are looking for you who are a secure, experienced, and driven support pedagogue. Apply for the position with us and become an important part of our team!

Who are we?

Welcome to our children's and youth residences under Section 9:8 of the LSS Act (Law on Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments) – a workplace where you make a real difference every day.

We are now expanding with a new facility and are therefore looking for engaged support pedagogues who want to help shape our operations together with us.

We are recruiting for two units: Ånestadsgatan 156 in Smedby, an established facility, and Vägstumpen 1 in Svärtinge, a new unit starting in autumn 2026. You will belong to one of the units, where you play a key role in creating a strong and well-functioning work team, guiding the staff group in our core mission. You will have a close colleague as a support pedagogue, as we have two lead support pedagogues for each child and young person.

We have a total of seven residential places across our facilities. Children and young people with various disabilities, backgrounds, and individual needs live in our operations. The facility has a high staff density, and we have 24-hour staffing with both awake nights and sleeping on-call shifts. Here, the children and young people are always at the center, where we work purposefully to promote their independence and create a safe and adapted living environment based on their individual needs and conditions.

Your responsibilities

As a support pedagogue with us, you will have a varied assignment with significant responsibility regarding our children and young people, as well as an important role in guiding the work team towards set goals. You initiate, work with, and implement various areas and issues that promote the facility's quality and development work together with the unit manager. The work in the facility is based on the individual's implementation plan. Our goal is to work so that each individual becomes as independent and secure as possible to develop according to their abilities. You provide individualized interventions and maintain a professional approach.

You form a team around the children and young people living here, together with the unit manager and the rest of the staff group, which consists of support assistants and support pedagogues. As a support pedagogue with us, you have a key role in our team to create structure and clarity for the work regarding safety and quality of life for our residents in their home. You have overall responsibility for social and pedagogical issues concerning our children and young people, where you analytically and clearly identify needs, plan, and carry out various types of change work.

You are part of the individual-oriented work, which involves following our children and young people in their daily lives. The tasks include everything that occurs in a home environment, guided by the individual's needs. The work involves contact with many actors both internally and externally. This is important to maintain the holistic work around each individual, as the children and young people live with us permanently.

Who are you?

We are looking for you who are trained as a support pedagogue or have other relevant education that the employer considers equivalent. To succeed in this position, we see that you have at least a few years of experience working as a support pedagogue where you have had a supervisory responsibility.

Experience and knowledge of working with individuals with various types of challenging behavior, such as physical and verbal aggression and self-harming behavior, are required. We would like you to have experience and knowledge of socially destructive behavior, as this occurs within our target groups. We also require experience with clarifying pedagogy, low-affective interaction, and neuropsychiatry. You should have previous experience working with children and young people within the LSS framework. Experience with PWS (Prader-Willi Syndrome) and NPD (Neurodevelopmental Disorders), as well as knowledge of trauma and crisis management, is a positive asset.

It is desirable that you can sign language or use signs as support and/or are familiar with other forms of AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication).

You have a high level of structure and a holistic perspective, while also having a well-rooted approach related to user- and next-of-kin-related issues within the LSS target group. It is important that you can collaborate and work based on decisions made in the facility. Taking initiative and striving to create good relationships and achieve results are considered important competencies.

Being a good role model for our children and young people as well as your colleagues is a matter of course for you. You are receptive and adapt your communication to the person you meet, which also means you have high self-awareness, being conscious of your emotions and actions and how this affects your work situations.

As a person, you are empathetic and secure, with a positive basic attitude and high commitment to the target group. You see opportunities from a professional approach and want to contribute to developing the facility based on the existing goals.

You who apply have good computer skills and can express yourself well in Swedish, both verbally and in writing.

A B-class driver's license is required.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Information about the position

Number of open positions: 6

Employment type: Permanent full-time position

Start date: September 1st or as agreed

Working hours: Day/evening/weekend

Remote work possibilities: To some extent for administrative work based on the facility's needs

Application deadline: June 14

Contact: Unit Manager Emma Rothman, 011-152797, [email protected]

Other information: We have chosen to remove the personal letter and replace it with selection questions relevant to the position. This makes it easier to make an objective assessment of your competence. You submit your CV as usual. An extract from the criminal record will be requested before employment can take place.