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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 an experienced, empathetic, and driven support assistant. 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 Chapter 9, Section 8 of the LSS Act (Support and Service Act for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments) – a workplace where you make a real difference every day. We are expanding with a new unit and are therefore looking for engaged support assistants who want to help shape our operations together with us. Here, you have the opportunity to contribute to a safe, developmental, and professional environment – both for the children and young people we work with and for your colleagues.

We are recruiting for two units: Ånestadsgatan 156 in Smedby, an established operation, and Vägstumpen 1 in Svärtinge, a new unit starting in autumn 2026. You will belong to one of the units, where you will become an important part of creating a strong and well-functioning work team.

We have a total of seven residential places within our operations. In our operations, children and young people with various disabilities, backgrounds, and individual needs live. The operation has a high staff density, and we have round-the-clock 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

The work in the operation 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 individually tailored interventions and maintain a professional approach.

Together with the rest of the staff group, consisting of support assistants and support pedagogues, you form a team around the individuals living here. As an employee here, you have a significant role in our team to create security and quality of life for our residents in their home.

You are part of the close-to-user work, which involves following our children and young people in their daily lives. The tasks include everything that occurs in a home environment, driven 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 have a high school diploma from the Care and Nursing program, the Child and Youth program with a social focus, or other relevant education that the employer deems equivalent, such as behavioral science or therapeutic pedagogy. Experience and knowledge of working with people 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 it occurs within our target groups. We also require that you have experience with clarifying pedagogy, low-affective handling, and neuropsychiatry.

You have previous experience working with children and young people within LSS, and we view it positively if you have worked with special diagnoses such as PWS and within NPD (Neurodevelopmental Disorders), as well as having knowledge of trauma and crisis management. 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 relative-related issues within the LSS target group. It is important that you can collaborate and work based on decisions made in the operation. 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 that you have a high level of self-awareness where you are conscious of your feelings and actions and how this affects your work situations.

The close user work requires that you have a high degree of independence. You see what needs to be done and take initiative in your daily work, which includes implementing and developing new ideas and methods. You are flexible and can change your approach and adapt when the situation requires it. You are good at prioritizing and finding solutions in different situations. You are accustomed to working with risk assessments and can see both the big picture and the details.

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

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

A B driver's license is required.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Information about the position

• Number of open positions: 7
• Employment type: Permanent full-time position
• Start date: September 1 or as agreed
• Working hours: Day/evening/weekend and sleeping on-call
• Opportunity for remote work: No
• Application deadline: May 15
• 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.