Support Educator - Help Build the Future of LSS Housing for Children in Southwest Sweden!

Description:

Imagine being part of creating a place where children and young people in LSS grow, feel safe, and are seen for who they are. We are now opening a highly specialized autism and communication residence where environment, approach, communication, and structure are tailored to each child's needs. The focus will be on quality and development, and the operations are based on evidence-based autism knowledge, AAC, low-arousal approaches, and a high degree of individualization. Description We are now looking for a weekend-responsible support educator with an interest in quality and development who, together with colleagues, wants to help shape an operation where commitment, genuine interest, and innovative ideas are given space. The assignment involves providing pedagogical support to colleagues, ensuring that decided work methods and implementation plans are followed, contributing to legally sound documentation, identifying areas for improvement, and reporting observations to the operation's coordinating support educator. You ensure that the operation is conducted in accordance with LSS, the Social Board's regulations, and the operation's quality objectives. With us, you have the opportunity to be there from the start and create a safe, developmental, and meaningful everyday life for a young person. We are looking for someone who is flexible, takes initiative, and thrives in an active daily routine with clear structure for both young people and the work team. Responsibilities In the operation, we have a coordinating support educator who leads the pedagogical work together with four other support educators. As a support educator, you are organized under the unit manager. You participate in method meetings, during weekends you implement and follow up on quality work, ensure method fidelity, follow up on routines, coach and mentor colleagues during work shifts, contribute observations and feedback to the coordinating support educator. Your focus will be to coach your colleagues in daily work through, among other things, role-play. You are a role model in pedagogical work in using evidence-based methods and approaches to create independence in the work team. You will be scheduled for daytime, evenings, and weekends. Every other weekend you, as a support educator, have weekend and method responsibility. Full-time measure is 38:25. Qualifications A basic requirement is that you have post-secondary education as a support educator, social educator, or other higher education as a social worker, preschool teacher, or equivalent as the employer deems equivalent. You must also have a passing grade in Swedish 1 or Swedish as a second language 1. You need to have previous experience of at least 2 years of work as an educator within LSS activities or adapted preschool/school. We also see that you have knowledge and experience of working based on evidence-based approaches such as low-arousal approaches (LAB), alternative and augmentative communication (AAC), and clarifying pedagogy. Knowledge of PDA (extreme demand avoidance) is a merit, and if you have experience of leading/coaching others in daily work, that is also positive. We are looking for someone who finds it easy to adapt your approach based on changed circumstances and sees opportunities in changes. You are motivated by clear goals and can translate them into concrete actions. You follow up on the work and ensure that interventions lead toward the desired result. You are confident in social situations and stand by your decisions. At the same time, you communicate clearly and can handle both everyday and challenging situations in a professional manner. We also see that you listen to others, show interest and respect, and adapt your approach based on the individual and situation. Through your approach, you contribute to good relationships and good cooperation. Other Information Selection and interviews will take place on an ongoing basis and will begin during the application period. Instead of sending a personal letter, you will answer a number of questions where you can describe your knowledge in the field. Gothenburg City actively works to promote equal rights and opportunities and to counteract discrimination. As an employee in the Department for Disability Support, we offer you: - Secure employment with good employment terms - Full-time with the possibility of part-time - Introduction for new employees - Competence development - Wellness allowance, bicycle allowance, and other discounts and offers When working with children under 18 years of age: Before offering employment, we ask you to present an extract from the police's criminal record register. You must request an extract yourself from the police website for the criminal record register and the suspicion register. You order a digital register extract that is sent to your digital mailbox. You do this via the link: Work with Children with Disabilities | Swedish Police Authority Gothenburg City applies individual and differentiated salary setting. Here you can find more information about, among other things, salary statistics. Salary, Compensation, and Benefits - Gothenburg City 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 contact the responsible recruiting manager to handle your application. Placement is made on the condition that the position does not need to be used in the administration or the city's restructuring work. To you who represent staffing and recruitment companies: For this recruitment, we have chosen recruitment channels and do not wish to receive offers of competency mediation, advertising, or recruitment assistance. About Us We are all different. We are also equal and have the same right to a safe 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 Department for Disability Support, we provide support, service, 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 committed employees, we are Sweden's largest disability support administration. We work, among other things, within housing with special services, daily activities, residential support, personal support, and children's and short-term housing. Do you want to be part of creating a more inclusive society? Welcome to us! You are GothenburgImagine being part of creating a place where children and young people in LSS grow, feel safe, and are seen for who they are. We are now opening a highly specialized autism and communication residence where environment, approach, communication, and structure are tailored to each child's needs. The focus will be on quality and development, and the operations are based on evidence-based autism knowledge, AAC, low-arousal approaches, and a high degree of individualization. Description We are now looking for a weekend-responsible support educator with an interest in quality and development who,…

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job

Status

active

Visibility

public

City

Göteborg

Address

Göteborgs Stad

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57.705114058146, 11.968068971252copyopen in

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Published

28. 7. 2026

Edited

3. 8. 2026

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