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Disability Care Worker

South HollandHybrid34 hours/week<3months

You work with clients who need clarity, structure, and proximity.

You support clients with an intellectual disability and associated behavioral or psychiatric issues at a residential location of a care organization.
Residents range in age from 29 to 67 years and have an intellectual level from mild to severe or moderate.
In addition to their intellectual disability, they experience psychiatric and/or behavioral problems.
Clients need supervisors who understand them, observe well, and respond to their needs.
Structure, predictability, and proximity are essential for a pleasant day.
Some clients attend external day activities, while others receive day activities from home.
Leisure activities vary and require individual attention.

What you do

You guide clients and support colleagues.
You take an overarching view of the quality of care, team collaboration, and client development.
From your expertise, you take on a coordinating role.
You monitor the common thread in guidance, coordinate care tasks, and maintain an overview of what clients and colleagues need.
You provide guidance based on an autism approach, focusing on structure and predictability.
You guide some clients step-by-step through the day; for others, the focus is more on providing clear frameworks and maintaining an overview.
You support and coach colleagues in client guidance.
You provide feedback, contribute to discussions on complex situations, and stimulate professional development within the team.
Thanks to your helicopter view, you identify opportunities and bottlenecks early and actively contribute to improving the quality of care.
You make an important contribution to a positive living and working environment.
Clients are physically reasonably independent; where necessary, you offer support in the form of reminders and instructions regarding ADL (Activities of Daily Living) support.
You will encounter challenging behavior, including physical and/or verbal aggression.
You remain calm, maintain an overview, and respond quickly to signals and requests for help.
You work independently but also stand by your colleagues; mutual support is an important prerequisite.

You have a diploma suitable for the position of disability care worker at HBO (higher professional education) level.
You have good communication skills.
You are resilient and pragmatic by nature.
You can reflect well on your own actions.
You observe carefully, signal changes in the request for help, and dare to act upon them.
Even when tensions rise, you remain calm and maintain an overview.
Experience or affinity with clients with psychiatric problems, behavioral problems, and an autism approach is a plus for this position.

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