Child Pedagogue for Residential Care Home in Landskrona

Landskrona is advancing in many ways. New areas with sea-view housing are emerging, and more and more companies are choosing to establish themselves here. The location in the heart of the Öresund region, with proximity to bathing, city life, nature, and culture, is attracting more people to move in, establish businesses, and visit.

In Landskrona Municipality, with just over 3,300 employees, we work according to our core values BRA, where B stands for Treatment (Bemötande), R for Results (Resultat), and A for Responsibility (Ansvar). Our core values should permeate all our operations, and we aim to be a workplace where you feel joy in your work and pride. Here, there is room for you with courage and initiative, and you will have the opportunity to develop.

Do you want to influence the development in one of Scania's most exciting cities? We welcome your application!

Are you ready to make a difference? Become part of the Individual and Family Administration!

At the Individual and Family Administration, we are committed to supporting children, young people, adults, and families through social work within various areas of social services. With a focus on high quality and individualized interventions, we always strive to help people live their lives independently.

Why choose us?

• Exciting development phase: We are in a dynamic phase where we are modernizing and adapting our working methods to reach more residents in new and innovative ways.
• Engaging work environment: Here, you have the opportunity to work in an inspiring environment where we value collaboration and development.
• Signs of Safety: We work according to the successful Signs of Safety method, which means we focus on building strong and sustainable solutions together with those we support.

Welcome to a workplace where you can truly make a difference!

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Job Responsibilities

Do you want to be the secure adult who makes a difference when young people need it most? We are looking for an engaged child pedagogue for our residential care home (HVB).

HVB Väster is a residential care home with three places for girls aged 13–17. We offer 24-hour care with housing and daily nursing. The target group is girls with norm-breaking behavior, NPD diagnoses (Neurodevelopmental Disorders), or behaviors resembling NPD symptoms. Each young person has a contact person who holds structured conversations, but the entire work group shares responsibility for care and daily work.

The responsibilities include, among other things:

• Providing support and guidance in daily routines and ADL (Activities of Daily Living) training.
• Creating structure, security, and predictability, as well as supporting social interaction and activities.
• Working according to agreed methods together with colleagues.
• Collaborating with the young person's network, e.g., family, social services, school, and healthcare.
• Contributing to the young people's change work through a low-arousal and relational approach.
• Contributing to the development of routines and working methods in the operation.

We offer you meaningful work where you contribute daily to the security and development of young people. You will become part of an engaged work group with broad competence and a strong focus on collaboration. Here, you will have the opportunity to develop in your professional role and help build an operation that makes a real difference.

Qualifications

We are looking for someone who is secure, stable, and has a genuine commitment to young people. You have the ability to meet young people in difficult situations with warmth, patience, and clarity. You are relationship-building and easily create trust, while also being able to set boundaries in a respectful way. Creating secure relationships with the young people and contributing to a stable environment is a central part of the role. We expect you to have good self-awareness and personal maturity.

In the role, you will handle complex situations, such as aggressive behavior, self-harm, and harmful use and addiction. Therefore, we expect you to be low-arousal in your treatment and able to handle this in a solution-focused and independent manner. You see development work as an opportunity and enjoy working together with others to create structure and quality in the operation. Great importance is placed on personal suitability.

Requirements:

• Post-secondary education in pedagogy, social work, or another behavioral science orientation.
• Experience working with children and young people in residential care (HVB) or similar operations.
• Good ability to express yourself in Swedish, both verbally and in writing.
• Category B driver's license for manual transmission.

Merits:

• Experience working with children in vulnerable life situations.
• Experience working with children with NPD issues.
• Training in low-arousal treatment.
• Training in Motivational Interviewing (MI).

Probationary employment may be applied. For employment with us, you will need to show extracts from the criminal record and suspicion register.

In this recruitment, we ask you to attach your CV and answer a number of selection questions. The purpose of the selection questions is to create a more efficient and fair recruitment process, where all candidates are assessed based on the same competence-based criteria.

Welcome with your application!

• Salary: Monthly salary.
• Employment type: Permanent employment.
• Duration: Permanent.
• Working hours: Schedule. The work is scheduled during daytime, evening, and every other weekend.

Employer information: https://www.landskrona.se/jobbailandskronastad (https://www.landskrona.se/jobbailandskronastad)

To ensure quality in the recruitment process in Landskrona Municipality, we use the recruitment tool Visma Recruit. Therefore, we ask you to submit your application via Visma Recruit by clicking the application link in the ad. An application to Landskrona Municipality is a public document, and your personal data is handled according to GDPR.

As we have already decided on the recruitment channels we wish to use for this recruitment, we decline to be contacted for further offers of competence mediation as well as advertising and recruitment assistance.

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