Group Leader for Employment and Activities in Boden Municipality

At Boden Municipality, you become part of societal development and work on solutions for a sustainable future. You will be met with support, trust, and opportunities for growth – together with dedicated colleagues.

Welcome to the Employment and Education Administration in Boden Municipality!

We hold a unified responsibility for integration, labor market, education, and employment issues affecting our municipality's residents. The administration is also responsible for the Cultural School, food supply, and Student Health Services. As an employee in our administration, you will have competent colleagues who show respect and tolerance, and whose great engagement creates joy and pride in work. Together, we focus on constantly improving operations.

Are you a nursing assistant or childcare worker with a focus on social work?

Do you want to be part of an exciting operation with great freedom to shape daily life together with your colleagues? Do you thrive working daytime hours – Monday to Friday – with evenings and weekends free?

If so, we think you should read on about the role of Group Leader with us at Employment and Activities! For people who have decisions regarding daily activities or employment, we are the place they go during the day, and we are responsible for 11 different workplaces as well as company placements within Boden Municipality.

With that said, we welcome you to our team! After all, don't you also want to have one of the world's most important jobs?

1 position(s).

RESPONSIBILITIES

One of our skilled employees at the Recycling Workshop will be on leave and working elsewhere for a period, so we are looking for a substitute.

We are looking for you who are passionate about working with the target group that has extensive needs for communication support and clarifying pedagogy.

We are seeking an engaged and driven Group Leader for our daily activities for people with extensive disabilities. You have a genuine interest in pedagogical work and want to actively work with methods and tools such as AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication), picture support, and clarifying pedagogy to create security, participation, and development for our participants.

In the operation, we work from the perspective of 100% of their own ability, where the focus is on each individual's development and/or maintenance of their abilities and independence. We are looking for you who see opportunities, have drive, and want to help create a meaningful and developmental daily life for our participants.

We would like you to have personal interests or special competencies that can enrich the operation, for example within drama, music, sports and health, or other creative and health-promoting areas. Here, you will have the opportunity to contribute with structure, engagement, and new ideas in important and meaningful work.

In your role as Group Leader, you will pedagogically plan, supervise, coach, and motivate individuals in their daily tasks. You are responsible for ensuring that the participants' planning is current and strives to strengthen the individual's self-determination and belief in their own ability. Care is included in the tasks based on the participants' different needs. You are part of a work team together with good colleagues and with close support from the unit manager.

We strive for every individual to reach 100% of their own ability and be able to participate in the community's shared life. Our operation offers the individual stimulation, development, meaning, and community according to their wishes. An overarching goal is also to develop the individual's opportunities towards work in the short or long term, which can include both habilitative activities and more production-oriented tasks. We start from the individual's needs and conditions when planning and working so that the individual can take steps in their own development and strengthen the opportunities to influence their own life.

We value a good work environment and work actively to create well-being, cooperation, and joy in work.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for a secure, positive, and proactive person who sees opportunities even in the small things. You thrive in good environments where individual development is at the center. In the role of Group Leader, treatment of individuals is of highest importance, as is the desire to work relationally together with the individuals we work with.

You will meet a broad spectrum of people with different challenges in their daily lives. The disabilities of those who mainly participate in our operation vary from those with Neuropsychiatric disabilities (Autism, ADHD, etc.), intellectual disabilities, mental disabilities/illnesses, etc. You need the ability to quickly adjust your approach and working methods as the individuals' needs can vary greatly. Social documentation and some care are included in the daily work.

We believe that you thrive working TOGETHER in a work team and contribute your experience and competence to the development of the operation.

You have the ability to review, analyze, and assess your own work and thereby contribute to high-quality interventions, as well as assess when other competencies than your own are needed.

Requirements:

• Degree or final grade from the Care and Nursing program, or alternatively a degree or final grade from the Child and Youth program with a focus on social work or equivalent.
• Category B driver's license for manual transmission.

Merits:

• Previous experience working with the target group.

We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

Employment type: Fixed-term employment.
Duration: 6 months or longer.

An extract from the criminal record must be presented before employment.

We value a balanced age and gender distribution as well as diversity in all professional fields.

When you apply for a job with us, we want you to use our e-recruitment system. This ensures that the handling of your application is efficient, fast, and secure.

In connection with the recruitment process, Boden Municipality has taken a stance on recruitment channels. We politely but firmly decline all contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, or similar in this recruitment.

If you are curious to get more information about our operation and our different workplaces, you can click the link here in the advertisement.

Read more about what we offer at www.boden.se/jobbaiboden (http://www.boden.se/jobbaiboden).