Support Educator for Solviken Group Home

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The Department of Work and Welfare consists of Individual and Family Care, Support, Service and Housing, and Education, Employment and Prevention. In total, we have approximately 300 employees who work salutogenically and solution-oriented with a knowledge base in methods with a scientific foundation.

Our mission is to help and support individuals with social problems and/or disabilities, to work preventively and promotively to counteract exclusion and social problems, and through studies or employment to find their way into working life towards self-sufficiency. From a children's rights perspective, we help, support, and protect children and young people so that they can live and develop under good and safe conditions.

Location: Solviken Group Home

We are now looking for a support educator for Solviken Group Home, located in Valjeviken with proximity to forest and sea. Solviken consists of five apartments and a common area in the middle of the house. The work group consists of ten support assistants.

1 position(s).

Job Responsibilities

In the role of support educator, you will provide support and service to adults with disabilities. The goal is that together with your colleagues, you will create a safe and meaningful everyday life with quality in care. Furthermore, you should be able to address each person's individual needs and conduct pedagogical work based on this. Your working method should be clarifying and motivating.

As a support educator, you participate in the daily work in exactly the same way as your support assistant colleagues, but you also have a responsibility for the development of the pedagogical work at the group home. In your pedagogical assignment, you should be able to guide and supervise your colleagues in their pedagogical work with the residents. You should be able to support your colleagues in drawing up new implementation plans, improving and developing implementation plans, as well as improving and developing social documentation.

You should be able to implement and follow up evidence-based methods (e.g., low-affective handling, AAC, clarifying pedagogy). You should also be able to collaborate with HSL (healthcare) staff, relatives, legal representatives, and other actors.

You will work close to the users together with your colleagues and have a major responsibility to, in consultation with the unit manager, drive and develop the pedagogical work in the operation.

Delegated health and medical care tasks are included in the work.

Working hours are scheduled for day shifts, evening shifts, and every other weekend.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who have a degree from a support educator education (200 YH credits) or 60 ECTS in pedagogy with a clear focus on the disability area. You also have education in a nursing program with a focus on disabilities, children and leisure, or other education that the employer deems equivalent.

Knowledge of and experience working with the target group within LSS (Act concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments) is a requirement. Meritorious is if you have education in and experience with methods within clarifying pedagogy and alternative communication such as TEAACH, TAKK, conversation mats, social stories, and MI. It is also meritorious if you have previously worked based on low-affective handling and have experience working with people with autism, intellectual disability, neurodevelopmental disorders (NPF), and challenging behavior.

As a person, we wish that you are proactive, responsible, structured, flexible, and have good collaboration skills. You take independent responsibility for your own tasks in both success and failure and plan and organize your time in an effective way. You take responsibility for the common result and do what needs to be done for the organization to achieve its goals. You easily adapt your working method to changed conditions and pay attention to others' opinions and competence, giving others in the group space in a way that benefits the whole.

We are looking for you who are structured, responsible, solution-focused, relationship-building, secure in your professional role, and have a genuine commitment to developing both users and the operation. Great importance is attached to personal suitability.

You have very good proficiency in Swedish, both spoken and written. You have experience with documentation and drawing up and following up implementation plans.

A B-driver's license for a manual transmission car is required.

Employment type: Fixed-term employment.
Duration: 6 months or longer, start date: Start date by agreement. Temporary position for six months. Desired employment rate, of which 50% is scheduled at Solviken Group Home.

According to the law (2026:43) on register control when working in the home for elderly persons or adults with disabilities, you must be able to show an extract from the criminal record register when offered employment.

In this recruitment, we work with ongoing selection. This means that we may call for interviews before the application period has ended.

In Sölvesborg Municipality, our 1,500 employees work according to the keywords warmth, proximity, and engagement. Our values permeate all operations, and we work together to ensure that Sölvesborg is a place where opportunities are created for those who live, work, or visit here.

We offer you a dynamic and responsive workplace where we are positive about new ideas and good atmosphere and well-being are high priorities. As an employer, we care about all our employees and therefore offer many benefits. Read more at www.solvesborg.se/jobb (http://www.solvesborg.se/jobb)

Sölvesborg is located on the coast of Blekinge with good commuting possibilities from both Karlskrona and Malmö.

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