Hearing Center

Our 1800 employees work with close care and health in Uppsala County. We offer a wide range of services within primary care. Our patients meet us at Region Uppsala's own health centers or within habilitation, and we provide advice over the phone via 1177. Education, research, and development are important to us, as we tailor our services according to the needs of the residents. Already, we offer mobile teams, video visits, and smart e-services.

Interested in an exciting job as a speech therapist?

We offer a full-time temporary position for one year, starting by agreement.

Now you have the chance to work as a speech therapist within the Hearing and Vision Services, placed in the Hearing Center's child and youth team. You will work with younger children with hearing impairment/deafness and their families together with audiologists, hearing pedagogues, special educators, speech therapists, sign language teachers, social workers, psychologists, engineers, and doctors. Together, you contribute to ensuring that children and young people with hearing impairment can live a good life.

Region Uppsala and Close Care and Health invest in secure employment and benefits that make a difference; read about the benefits here (https://regionuppsala.se/jobba-hos-oss/bli-var-nya-kollega/formaner/ (https://regionuppsala.se/jobba-hos-oss/bli-var-nya-kollega/formaner/)).

Your mission

Your tasks include assessing children's linguistic and communicative abilities, as well as treatment/guidance. A large part of the speech therapy work involves working with preventive measures. The aim is to prevent young children with hearing impairment/deafness from developing linguistic and communicative difficulties. Together with the team, you offer early family-centered intervention, focusing on promoting early interaction, language immersion, a good communication environment, and the use of hearing technology.

Your qualifications

You who apply should be a licensed speech therapist. Experience working with children with hearing impairment is an advantage. It is also advantageous to have experience in parental guidance and working in habilitation teams. Having good knowledge of educational activities is a plus, as parts of the work involve guiding staff in preschool/school. You have good pedagogical skills and can easily establish contact with both patients, relatives, and colleagues. The work requires both good collaboration skills and the ability to work independently. We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

Our operations

The Hearing Center in Uppsala is a unit within the Hearing and Vision Services at Kronparksgården and is part of the Close Care and Health's area of operations for Disabilities. The child and youth team mainly receives referrals from doctors. The team meets children and young people aged 0 - 20 years with various degrees and types of hearing impairments. Our interventions include, for example, fitting hearing technology, providing advice and support to parents, counseling support, information to preschool/school, sign language teaching, assessment of linguistic skills, and language and communication guidance for parents.

Want to know more?

If you would like more information, you are warmly welcome to contact group manager Åsa Sahlberg at phone: 018-611 67 06 or email: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]).

Union representatives can be reached via the switchboard: 018-611 00 00.

If you are offered a position with us, we will request an extract from the suspicion and criminal record register.

Application

Welcome with your application via the link below. Attach your CV, a copy of your license, and other relevant documents that support your knowledge and experience. We want your application by January 21 at the latest. Interviews will be conducted continuously.

Region Uppsala values the qualities that gender balance and diversity bring to the organization. We therefore welcome applicants of all genders and with different backgrounds, abilities, and life experiences.

Region Uppsala places all permanent staff based on the needs of total defense. This means that for the individual employee, there are no obligations in peacetime but is solely a planning measure.

Checks against the suspicion and criminal record register will be made regarding all individuals whom the employer intends to employ or engage for patient-related work based on the possibility that they may work in psychiatric care, habilitation, care of children and youth, or compulsory care of substance abusers, areas that are covered by optional register extracts. This applies to all who will work closely with patients even if the tasks are not currently intended to primarily involve work with the aforementioned patient groups.

This recruitment is entirely managed by Region Uppsala. We therefore decline phone calls from recruitment companies and ad sellers.