Support Pedagogue for Personal Support Services

Job Duties The Personal Support Services division offers services including companion services, personal assistance, and contact person programs. We work closely together across the entire service area, and we are currently seeking a support pedagogue for a permanent position focused on companion services. As a support pedagogue, you work to support, motivate, and guide both service users and colleagues. You have a central role in the service's quality and development work and are responsible for implementing, monitoring, and developing decided methods and working practices. Your duties include ensuring that work is conducted in accordance with applicable legislation, guidelines, and the service's objectives. You actively work to identify areas for development and contribute to creating working practices that strengthen the quality of the service. You serve as a resource for other staff members in social documentation work and implementation plans. Together with colleagues, you develop action plans for specific service users and collaborate with service users, family members, guardians, and other organizations. As a support pedagogue, you are responsible for developing and implementing an ethical approach in the work group that promotes the service user's self-determination, participation, integrity, and sense of security. Support pedagogues within the service area are part of an overarching network led by a method developer. There, colleagues from different services meet to exchange experiences and develop common working practices. In this role, you work closely with the unit manager, method developer, and service developer to monitor, develop, and ensure quality assurance of work at the unit. Qualifications The position requires post-secondary specialized training in the field of disability services comprising at least 200 vocational credits, 120 university credits, or 60 university credits with two years of work experience with people with disabilities. The education should include relevant credits in behavioral science, pedagogy, psychology, social work, and (psychiatric) care or other training deemed equivalent by the employer. Communication and documentation are important parts of the work, which requires you to have passed Swedish 1 or Swedish as a Second Language 1. If you do not meet these language requirements, you may be offered a language test through the test provider Educateit. It is a requirement that you have experience with social documentation. It is meritorious if you have experience in personal assistance and/or companion services. You adapt easily to changed circumstances and new information, and can quickly adjust your perspective and approach while seeing opportunities in change. You act independently based on what the situation requires without needing support from others and have the ability to make independent decisions within the scope of your assignment. You work effectively under stress, can balance different demands, and remain calm in difficult situations. You distinguish between facts and people and can make well-founded decisions under time pressure. Within your area of responsibility, you can resist pressure from others, set boundaries, and say no when necessary. You are clear in your professional role and act professionally in situations where others question you or make unreasonable demands. Other Information In this recruitment, you will answer a number of questions where you describe your knowledge in the area instead of submitting a cover letter. Selection and interviews begin during the application period. Gothenburg City actively works to promote equal rights and opportunities and to counteract discrimination. As an employee in the disability support administration, we offer you: - Secure employment with good employment terms - Full-time with the possibility of part-time work - Introduction upon hiring - Professional development - Wellness allowance, cycling allowance, and other discounts and offers Before a job offer, we ask you to provide an extract from the police criminal record register. You must request an extract from the police criminal record register yourself. This is done on the police website Belastningsregistret - begära utdrag | Polismyndigheten either via e-service or using the Application Form for Requesting a Register Extract. You will need to show two different register extracts: - Work with children according to LSS https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/barn-med-funktionsnedsattning/ - Work in homes with elderly and people with disabilities https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/arbete-i-hemmet-med-aldre-och-personer-med-funktionsnedsattning-e-tjanst/ We only accept applications through our recruitment system in accordance with GDPR. If you have protected personal information, you should NOT apply through the system but instead contact the responsible recruiting manager for handling your application. Gothenburg City applies individual and differentiated salary setting. You can find more information about salary statistics and more here: https://goteborg.se/wps/portal/start/jobba-i-goteborgs-stad/sa-ar-det-att-jobba-hos-oss/formaner-och-lon Filling the position is subject to the condition that the position does not need to be used in the administration or the city's restructuring work. For representatives of staffing and recruitment companies: For this recruitment, we have selected recruitment channels and do not wish to receive offers of competency brokering, advertising, or recruitment assistance. About Us We are all different. We are also equal and have the same right to a secure home, meaningful employment, and to feel valued. With the right conditions, we can grow, develop, and participate in society on our own terms. Within the disability support administration, we provide support, services, and care to children and adults with disabilities and create opportunities for them to live a good and independent life, like everyone else. With 6,200 dedicated employees, we are Sweden's largest disability support administration. We work in, among other areas, supported housing, day activities, housing support, personal support, and children's and short-term care facilities. Do you want to contribute to a more inclusive society? Welcome to us! You are Gothenburg.

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