Educational Support Specialist at Billdals Björkväg Children's Residential Home!

Description Would you like to be part of developing our work with clarifying pedagogy and low-affect interaction as the foundation? Are you motivated by working with a focus on individual and specific pedagogical solutions to give each person good conditions to succeed and develop in their independence? Then you should apply to us! Bmss Billdals Björkväg is a residential home for children and young people with autism, ADHD, and moderate to severe intellectual disabilities. The current age range of residents is 14-21 years old, and when they turn 21 they move on, which means we have an exciting transformation process ahead! Job Duties You will work in close collaboration with support assistants, educational support specialists, and the unit manager, and your main task is to ensure the quality of the pedagogical work in the organization, with a focus on proven methods and in accordance with laws and guidelines. As an educational support specialist, you have an important role in acting as a role model in working with low-affect interaction, clarifying pedagogy, and alternative and augmentative communication. You guide your colleagues in daily work and are responsible, together with other educational support specialists, for ensuring that social documentation maintains good quality and follows the laws and guidelines we must adhere to. You will work according to a schedule, every other weekend. You inspire learning and development by motivating and engaging, thereby giving both colleagues and the children living at Billdals good conditions to develop and succeed. An important part of your role is also to encourage and work for good collaboration with all people in the individual's network. You actively monitor the external environment with a focus on autism, clarifying pedagogy, and individually adapted activities. Our organization must always follow proven methods and practices, and we strive to be constantly developing. Qualifications For the position of educational support specialist, post-secondary specialization within the disability field is required, encompassing at least 200 vocational school credits or 60 higher education credits, or a combination thereof equivalent to at least two full-time semesters of study. The education must have a clear focus on the disability field in its entirety. Communication is an important part of the work, which requires that you have a passing grade in Swedish 1 or Swedish as a Second Language 1. If you do not meet these language requirements, you may be offered to take a language test through the test administrator Educateit. Experience with autism, intellectual disabilities, alternative and augmentative communication, and clarifying pedagogy is a requirement. You must also have experience with social documentation and knowledge of current legislation related to LSS, HSL, and SoL. It is positive if you have prior experience working with sensory stimulation as a method and experience with sign language as a support. It is also a merit to have worked with low-affect interaction based on Studio 3 or Durewall. We are looking for someone who is passionate about creating meaningful daily lives for those we serve. You take responsibility for your own and the group's tasks, take initiative, and start activities. With strong commitment, you ensure that work is done in a high-quality manner. You have a good understanding of how individuals acquire knowledge and their different conditions, and you adapt your way of communicating messages to the recipient. Finally, we see that you work well with others by listening, showing interest and respect. You understand the shared mission and work to make it as good as possible. Would you like to be part of our team and make a difference? Welcome with your application! Terms Selection will begin during the application period. Interviews will take place in week 35. Instead of submitting 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 Disability Support Administration, we offer you: - Secure employment with good employment terms - Full-time with the possibility of part-time - Introduction for new employees - Skills development - Health and wellness allowance, bicycle allowance, and other discounts and offers When working with children under 18 years: Before offering employment, we ask you to provide an extract from the police's criminal record register. You must request an extract from the police website for the criminal record register and 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 | Police Authority Gothenburg City applies individual and differentiated salary setting. Here you can get 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 instead contact the responsible recruiting manager for handling your application. The position will be filled provided that the position does not need to be used within the administration or the city's transformation efforts. To those representing staffing and recruitment companies: For this recruitment, we have chosen recruitment channels and do not wish for 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 activities, and to feel valuable. 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 committed employees, we are Sweden's largest disability support administration. We work, among other things, with residential homes with special services, day-time activities, residential support, personal support, and child and short-term residential homes. Would you like to contribute to a more inclusive society? Welcome to us! You are Gothenburg

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