Support Educator for LSS Children's Residential Home

Gävle Municipality offers interesting and challenging jobs with great opportunities for you to grow. In the coastal city of Gävle, you are close to nature, culture, and experiences. Do you want to help take Gävle into the future? We are now looking for you who want to make Gävle even better together with us! Welfare Gävle's employees make Gävle safer for children, youth, and the elderly, people with disabilities, and individuals in vulnerable situations. We also work to create the best conditions for adult learning and personal development. We offer future-oriented professions that both challenge and develop, and you work on things that truly matter. Together, we make Gävle safer! JOB RESPONSIBILITIES Do you want to make a difference in children's lives? Become a support educator with us! Are you confident, receptive, and passionate about supporting children and youth based on their individual needs? Then you might be the right person for our LSS residence where children and youth with extensive disabilities live full-time. As a support educator, you are an important part of the children's daily life. You are both a stable point of reference and a driving force, meeting each individual with empathy and respect regardless of behavior. You need to maintain a professional approach even in emotionally challenging situations. You are responsible for ensuring children receive appropriate support based on their needs and collaborate with guardians, schools, and habilitation services. You use alternative communication methods such as TAKK, picture schedules, TD Snap, Widgit, and PECS. Your role includes developing and coordinating pedagogical methods, mentoring colleagues in professional ethical issues and documentation, and driving systematic quality improvement work. You will do this work together with our other support educators. You are a role model in pedagogical work and contribute to organizational development through environmental monitoring and proposing competence-enhancing initiatives. Work is based on children's implementation plans. You need to be able to work both independently and in teams, be flexible, and step forward and take responsibility when situations quickly change. Some children have challenging behaviors, which requires you to approach them with professionalism and compassion. You participate in children's daily life, activities, and outings both indoors and outdoors. We work closely together, support and laugh together. There is room to grow and take personal initiatives, such as through development projects or responsibility for specific areas. You document in social journals, write and update action plans and implementation plans according to current routines. The work involves day, evening, night, and on-call shifts. QUALIFICATIONS We are seeking someone with an approved Support Educator Vocational Higher Education program of 200 points. You should have at least two years of experience working at residential facilities with special services for children or youth according to LSS (child residences), short-term homes for children or youth according to LSS, or group homes for adults under LSS. To succeed in the position, you also need at least 2 years of experience as a support educator within LSS. We also want you to have experience or training in alternative communication methods such as TAKK, picture schedules, TD Snap (pratis), Widgit, PECS. You should be able to maintain social documentation and have good computer skills. A requirement for the position is a manual driver's license as you will often drive children/youth on excursions and other activities. It is meritorious if you have training or experience in low-affective approaches. As a person, you handle stress constructively and maintain a good mood under pressure and setbacks. Listening, showing empathy and respect are self-evident to you, while being unpretentious and recognizing and rewarding others' contributions. You must be able to approach our children/youth professionally and empathetically regardless of their behavior and avoid becoming personally affected. You are a person who inspires confidence, creates trust, and has the ability to spread calm and stability. In your collaboration with others, you have an unpretentious approach focused on the common goal. Furthermore, you adapt to different situations and have the ability to change your perspective and approach. To be considered for the position, you must be able to provide an extract from the criminal record to work with children with disabilities. The extract will be provided by the final candidate and should not be attached to the application. You can order the criminal record extract on the police website. Welcome with your application - with us, you make a difference every day! ADDITIONAL INFORMATION To ensure the quality of the recruitment process in Gävle Municipality and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit