The Disability Care services in Umeå Municipality aims to be a resource that frees and strengthens people's ability to live an independent life, through proximity and collaboration.
Istidsgatan 27 is a service residence within LSS (Act on Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments). Here, 14 residents with intellectual and physical disabilities of varying ages live in their own apartments while sharing common spaces.
We are now seeking a new support pedagogue for our residence - could you be the one we're looking for?
Your responsibilities
Together with your colleagues, you will support people with disabilities. You work to make individuals active participants in a functioning everyday life and to enable a successful leisure time.
As a support pedagogue, you work with evidence-based pedagogical methods to create safety and structure in daily life for people with disabilities. You guide staff in user-centered work and actively contribute to quality development, documentation, and introduction of new colleagues. You are also part of a network of support pedagogues where you have the opportunity for experience exchange and continuous professional development. You work on assignment from your supervisor, and assignments may vary over time depending on operational needs.
Care work is part of the job and may include, for example, personal hygiene, support with meals, cleaning and laundry, planning activities, accompanying residents to medical appointments, medication delegation, and documentation.
The workplace may involve smoking, heavy lifting, and challenging behavior.
To create safety and stability for those living with us and to make challenging behaviors manageable, it is important to follow routines and cooperate within the work team.
Work hours are scheduled for day/evening/weekend shifts and on-call combinations. Joint planning occurs between our operations within Disability Care Services.
About you
As a person, you are calm and confident and find it easy to follow routines. You have good collaboration skills and maintain a professional approach toward residents, family members, and other stakeholders. You are committed and willing to share our values and work toward set goals and continuous improvements. You easily create and maintain structure and contribute to the development of operations. Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability.
To communicate with residents, family members, and colleagues, write and access care documentation, and receive medication delegation, you must have good knowledge of the Swedish language in both speech and writing.
Requirements
Post-secondary education in the form of at least 200 vocational college credits in support pedagogy or equivalent vocational college education. Alternatively, 60 higher education credits in relevant courses related to disability care services. Programs and/or courses with a clear focus on working with intellectual, cognitive, or psychosocial disabilities. For example, within:
- Ethical approaches
- Pedagogical theories and methods
- Alternative and augmentative communication (AAC)
- Cognitive support
- Coaching approaches
Several years of experience working with people with disabilities or other work experience that we consider equivalent
Merits
Experience with Low Arousal Approach (LAB), alternative and augmentative communication (AAC), and motivational interviewing (MI)
Experience working as a support pedagogue
Education as a nursing assistant
Your application
To ensure that candidates called for interview are those who best meet the requirements and merits for the position, we use selection questions. For us to properly assess your application, it is important that you answer all selection questions thoroughly and do not refer to your CV in your answers. Incomplete or insufficient answers may result in your application not moving forward in the process.
Before offering employment, we ask you to provide a certificate from the Police's criminal record register. This is done as a final step in the recruitment process.
NOTE! Do you have protected personal data? Please contact recruitment support at 090-16 10 99 or at [email protected] and they will help you with a secure application process.
We look forward to receiving your application!
About Umeå Municipality
Umeå Municipality is the region's largest employer with over 13,000 important employees. Our organization is divided into nine departments, and together we work to make Umeå grow with care. Our values are based on citizen focus, openness, trust, and continuous improvements. Working with us, you will participate in socially important assignments where you contribute to Umeå continuing to be safe, secure, and fun.
Umeå is northern Sweden's largest city with a rich variety of experiences and opportunities. We are an association and culture city that offers a richer life even outside of work. You can learn what it is like to live and work in Umeå here: Move - Umeå Municipality
We are growing and are looking for people like you. Do you want more? We offer fair conditions, good benefits, and excellent development opportunities for lifelong learning, as well as work that is important to everyone who lives and works here. We look forward to hearing from you.The Disability Care services in Umeå Municipality aims to be a resource that frees and strengthens people's ability to live an independent life, through proximity and collaboration.
Istidsgatan 27 is a service residence within LSS (Act on Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments). Here, 14 residents with intellectual and physical disabilities of varying ages live in their own apartments while sharing common spaces.
We are now seeking a new support pedagogue for our residence - could you be the one we're looking for?
Your responsibilities
Together with your…