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Habilitation & Health offers specialized care and support to individuals with permanent disabilities; such as reduced ability to communicate, see, hear, or move. The goal is to maintain and develop functional ability, create conditions for good health, and provide opportunities for active participation in society. Do you want to make a difference for individuals with disabilities? Welcome to Habilitation & Health, part of the Västra Götaland Region. Together we have the power to change.

Habilitation is specialized health care for children and adolescents with autism, intellectual disabilities, mobility impairments, or acquired brain injuries. We provide health-promoting and therapeutic interventions based on each individual's unique needs and circumstances and have specialized knowledge of how disabilities can affect daily life, health, and development.

Description

Do you want to contribute to children who have had a different start in life being given the opportunity to reach their full potential? Do you want to contribute important pieces to the teamwork? Then we hope you apply to Habilitation! We are now looking for a speech therapist for our clinic for a parental leave substitute with the possibility of extension.

Welcome with your application.

Responsibilities

As a speech therapist with us, you are an important team member. You will work with individuals with disabilities, based on the patient's needs. As a speech therapist within Habilitation, you will work with speech, language, communication, and AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication), oral motor skills, eating/swallowing, and drinking difficulties. The work is characterized by variation and involves working in a team around the patient consisting of occupational therapists, physiotherapists, social workers, psychologists, special educators, nurses, and doctors.

In addition to contacts with patients within the target group and relatives, advice, consultation, and guidance are also provided to staff groups around the patient. The work primarily takes place in the clinic's premises but also to some extent in the patient's immediate environment. Interventions can be provided individually or in groups. You will be part of a professional group together with other speech therapists at the clinic.

We are looking for someone who

• is a licensed speech therapist.
• has experience working with individuals from our target groups.
• feels confident working both in a team and independently as you will be solely responsible for certain tasks.
• has social skills and the ability to collaborate as the work involves cooperation with relatives, various professional groups, and other healthcare providers.
• has a driver's license as travel is required in the job.

We offer you

• a varied and educational job.
• collegial supervision.
• professional development and career advancement with other speech therapists within Habilitation & Health.
• employment benefits including pension agreements, salary exchange, insurance agreements, free open health care, and wellness grants.

It is advantageous if you have professional experience, preferably with experience working in interdisciplinary teams. Great importance is placed on personal suitability.

Other

Habilitation has clinics throughout the Västra Götaland Region where your placement will be in Skövde. Within Habilitation & Health, we strive for a balanced gender distribution and see diversity as a strength, where our employees' differences enrich and develop the organization.

Recruitment is ongoing, and you may be contacted before the application deadline has passed. You can read more about Habilitation on our website www.vgregion.se/hoh (http://www.vgregion.se/hoh)

About the Västra Götaland Region

The Västra Götaland Region exists for the people of Västra Götaland. We ensure that there is good health care for all. We work for sustainable development and growth, a good environment, improved public health, a rich cultural life, and good communication throughout Västra Götaland.

The Västra Götaland Region actively works to digitize more work methods. To be part of the digital transformation, you should have basic skills and be able to use digital tools and services. You can search for information, communicate, interact digitally, are risk-aware, and have the motivation to participate in the development to learn new things.

The Västra Götaland Region places all permanent employees in a state of readiness.

If you want to know more about the Västra Götaland Region, you can visit our introduction for new employees at the link https://www.vgregion.se/introduktion (https://www.vgregion.se/introduktion). You can also read more in the presentation at https://mellanarkiv-offentlig.vgregion.se/alfresco/s/archive/stream/public/v1/source/available/sofia/rs4011-467070786-672/surrogate (https://mellanarkiv-offentlig.vgregion.se/alfresco/s/archive/stream/public/v1/source/available/sofia/rs4011-467070786-672/surrogate).

Application

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