Do you want to contribute to people having a good quality of life and becoming more independent? Then this position might be for you. LSS-boende Höjden is seeking a support pedagogue who wants to contribute to a safe and meaningful everyday life. You thrive on combining close user-facing work with pedagogical development work.
LSS-unit 8 consists of four special residences within LSS. At Höjden, adults with various neuropsychiatric functional variations live who need support in their daily lives based on decisions according to LSS and SoL. We work with individual customization and evidence-based methods to create conditions for increased participation, quality of life, and independence. Our work is characterized by structure, collaboration, and shared responsibility for the quality and development of our operations. Respectful treatment and the individual's needs, wishes, and participation are always at the center.
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WORK TASKS
As a support pedagogue, you work closely with the individual and provide customized support based on needs, conditions, and wishes. You plan, implement, and follow up on interventions and establish implementation plans together with the individual. Through a pedagogical and evidence-based approach, you work to strengthen the individual's participation, independence, and social abilities, including through ADL training and physical activity. The role also includes care tasks and delegated health and medical care tasks.
You are a contact person and have special responsibility for coordinating and following up support together with the individual, relatives, and other people providing support to the individual. As a support pedagogue, you also have a mentoring role where you support colleagues, contribute to the organization's methodological work, and promote a common holistic perspective with the individual's needs at the center. You identify and map needs, develop work methods, and work to promote the individual's development and well-being. You use, among other things, motivational interviewing (MI) and low-arousal approaches and need to feel confident in handling challenging situations.
QUALIFICATIONS
We are looking for someone with completed post-secondary education as a support pedagogue, or alternatively another post-secondary education that the employer considers equivalent. You have experience working within the disability field, for example within LSS or social psychiatry. It is meritorious if you have experience as a support pedagogue and with documentation. You can work day, evening, and weekend shifts according to schedule and are open to receiving delegation. A B driver's license is advantageous, as is experience working with people who have outward-directed behavior, self-injurious behavior, or other behaviors that may present special challenges in pedagogical and social work.
In this recruitment, we use language tests for all candidates we invite to interview. We will also ask you to provide an extract from the police criminal record registry before employment.
We warmly welcome your application!
Salary form: Monthly salary.
Employment form: Permanent employment.
Duration: Permanent, start date: By agreement.
Working hours: Shift schedule.
At the Care and Services Administration, approximately 3,300 employees work in almost 70 different professions. Together we enable Eskilstuna's elderly and people with disabilities to live safely and independently.
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