Support Pedagogue Sought for LSS Children and Youth in Eslöv Municipality

Eslövs kommun · Full-time

Eslövs kommun, ESLÖV, Sweden

1 position(s). We are seeking a support pedagogue who wants to contribute to pedagogical and high-quality work for children and youth within short-term stays and leisure supervision under LSS (Act Concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments). Your Assignment You will be part of a team of support assistants, support coordinators, pedagogical coordinators, and pedagogical developers, all working to ensure our young people have the opportunity to live as independently as possible. As a support pedagogue within Short-term Stays and Leisure Supervision under LSS, you have a statutory and professional responsibility for support measures under LSS. You provide support and services based on the child's/youth's needs and wishes, as well as in accordance with individual implementation plans. Support measures are based on children's/youth's individual needs to promote abilities, integrity, participation, and self-determination. A typical workday may include providing support and assistance with pedagogical guidance around activities, meals, planning, reminders, social situations, personal care, cleaning, laundry, and other tasks the person you support needs help with. This also includes maintaining unit facilities, meal preparation, and shopping. The work includes actively implementing and developing methodological approaches. You also initiate and establish individual action plans, conduct risk assessments when needed, and ensure that implementation plans and documentation are established, followed up, and maintained. The work involves care work and managing challenging situations. We work solution-focused at the unit. You will work both as part of a team and independently. Since you will mentor colleagues in pedagogical development work, it is important that you feel confident and have a genuine interest in working with people and developing pedagogical methods. Working hours are irregular, including days, evenings, on-call, nights, and weekends. The work is highly varied and looks different from day to day depending on which children/youth are present on any given day. In addition, you are responsible for maintaining close and good cooperation with guardians, relatives, schools, and other professionals within healthcare. Other Tasks: Ensure quality of services based on users' support needs. Provide guidance in methods and strategies within the work team. Your Experience You are an educated support pedagogue or have equivalent pedagogical education, such as post-secondary education of 200 YH or 60 HP within functional impairment/behavioral science. Good knowledge of pedagogical methods, such as clarifying pedagogy. Fluent command of Swedish, both spoken and written. Good computer skills. Experience in establishing and following up on implementation plans and other social documentation. Experience actively working as a support pedagogue within LSS for children and youth, or as a support pedagogue within LSS for adults. Knowledge of low-arousal approaches. Experience working with welfare technology and ensuring quality of work. Knowledge and experience with AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication). Meritorious: Previous experience working with children and youth with functional variations. Is This You? Experience with independent work with your own structure as well as close teamwork with different professions. Knowledge of evidence-based methods, welfare technology, and health-promoting approaches, and the ability to meet each individual based on their abilities. What We Offer With us, you have the opportunity for varied work with a broad target group. You have the opportunity to plan and structure your own work based on your assignment. You actively participate in driving change and development work. About the Workplace At short-term stays and supervision, we work to provide support to children, youth, and young adults with functional variations. The work is varied and highly developmental as you meet a broad spectrum of intellectual disabilities, autism, and ADHD diagnoses at the unit. We offer environmental change and recreation for the individual—and relief for the family member. Support is individually tailored and based on the individual's needs to ensure good living conditions and a good life. It is built on active interest from us and a willingness to listen and understand. Through motivating and practical supporting measures, we help people meet and manage various situations in daily life with the goal that they live as independently as possible based on their abilities. Support is provided both in the unit's facilities and in everyday activities out in the community. Other Tasks: Ensure quality of services based on users' support needs. Ongoing work with low-arousal approaches and clarifying pedagogy. Guidance in methods and strategies within the work team. Other Information In this recruitment, we conduct ongoing selection, meaning we continuously evaluate applications. All applications are considered and no one will be hired before the announcement closes. To ensure quality in the recruitment process and enable good communication with applicants, we ask that you submit your application digitally. If you experience problems with your application, please contact Visma support 0771-693 693. Your application documents are public documents and are handled according to the principle of public access. If you have a protected identity, you may submit your application in writing or deliver it to the Contact Center at Gröna Torg 2. Mark your application with the Recruitment Department and the announcement's reference number. According to the Act on Background Checks, you must be prepared to provide a background check excerpt (no older than six months) from the police's criminal record register. The excerpt is ordered by the job seeker through the Swedish Police Authority's e-service (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/barn-med-funktionsnedsattning/). Employees are sought on the condition that the position does not need to be filled by already employed personnel or persons with priority rights. Salary form: Monthly salary. Employment type: Permanent employment. Duration: Indefinite.