Autism Center Southern Denmark Bihuset 24/7 Odense – is that you?

Because of new exciting tasks, we are now seeking a social- and health-care assistant for our lovely department in Odense.

Do you want to contribute to

• To develop the health-care work at Bihuset Døgn?
• To work rehabilitively with individual care and a pedagogical approach for the individual child/young person?
• To use and develop your own competences in a daily life filled with professional sparring and reflection?
• To work across disciplines and sectors with contact to various partners?
• To help ensure continuity in the health-care offering?
• To work closely with relatives, health professionals, pedagogues, pedagogical assistants, care helpers, occupational therapists and managers?

What is Bihuset Døgn?

Bihuset Døgn is part of Autism Center Southern Denmark, which also has departments in Kværndrup, Ringe, Odense, Middelfart and Fredericia.

Bihuset Døgn is a children and youth home (24-hour facility) for children and young people with pervasive developmental disorders within the autism spectrum. Several of the children have comorbidity such as ADHD or anxiety. Several of the children also have an intellectual disability.

The children need a special educational offer with structure and predictability, as well as compensatory strategies regarding communication and social interaction. With us, no one is different, but everyone is different. The age group is from 6-17 years. At Bihuset we also have Section 107 services up to age 23 which are not currently active.

Here the focus is on development and strengthening collaboration across disciplines and working from our common core task:

Building on each child's resources, dreams and hopes we strengthen self-determination and promote self-reliance to support the child's own experience of quality of life and a meaningful life.

At Bihuset Døgn we offer

• To work with lovely children and young people with autism spectrum disorders
• To cross professional boundaries without losing your professional security
• To work with your health-care competences
• A strong professional environment with a high degree of specialization
• Professional theme days, meetings and sparring
• To work in a center where there is a focus on professional development and the possibility of supervision
• Basic professional training of 6 days at the center within the first 12 months for permanent staff
• Individually tailored introduction based on your competences
• Professional theme days, meetings and sparring
• A good working environment with engaged colleagues
• That you become part of a staff group that is also part of a large organization, which is why cross-knowledge sharing is expected
• A leadership and tone of communication characterized by visibility and recognition
• Day- and evening-work according to individual and flexible working-time arrangements and working every 4th weekend

You will together with the other health-care colleagues have responsibility for

• Medication responsibility including medication handling.
• Daily health-care documentation in Nexus
• Teaching of and delegation of competences to the pedagogical staff.
• Doctor contact, hospital visits and other health-care agreements in collaboration with the pedagogical staff.
• Adverse events and patient safety and contributing to learning from these

There is close collaboration with the children39;s relatives, general practitioners, specialists, schools, institutions and other partners who support the children39;s physical and mental health.

We highly value sparring between the pedagogical and health-care staff, as neither a pedagogical nor a clinical outlook can stand alone.

Our wishes

• You are educated and authorized as a social- and health-care assistant
• You have interest and professional commitment to our target group
• You are focused on creating good relations with the children/ the young, relatives, colleagues and partners
• You contribute positively to cross-disciplinary collaboration and are flexible
• You are structured and can maintain an overview
• You thrive being part of a cross-disciplinary team
• You thrive being proactive and self-starting and seeking sparring
• You can receive and give feedback with a view to common goals and development
• You are clear and explicit in your communication, both verbally and non-verbally
• You work in an appreciative and conflict-de-escalating manner
• A driving license is an advantage

Application deadline Dec 31. Interviews will be held continuously

If you want to know more about the position, you are welcome to contact Department Head Maria Hannemann Jespersen on 30433175. Send a text message and I will call back as soon as possible.

A child-attestation is required before employment.

The region is obliged to inform you about the starting salary for the position. You will be informed of base salary, centrally fixed allowances and pension in 32.03.1 . In addition to the starting salary, the pay may include any negotiated allowances depending on the position, your experience and qualifications. See starting salary for positions in Region of Southern Denmark