Do you want to perform meaningful work that makes a direct difference? Perhaps you are the one we are looking for!

Our Offer

The Interpreting Center is a unit within the Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic of Region Östergötland, and our mission covers the entire region.

Through the Deaf Team, we offer competent and security-creating psychosocial support to adults who are deaf from childhood. We also provide interpreting services with high availability and broad competence to deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing individuals, and to persons with disabilities related to voice, speech, or language difficulties.

As an employee with us, you will have a varied, stimulating, and independent job, and together with experienced and supportive colleagues, you will take responsibility for influencing both your own development and the service moving forward.

For life ahead. Region Östergötland has high ambitions and a responsible mission. It is about health and care, about the development of our region, and about those who live and stay here. We want to continue to be at the forefront, with care, research, and education. This means daring to think anew – and having the best employees. Therefore, we offer unique opportunities for further learning and invest in modern environments with effective systems and tools. Many of us meet patients and relatives, while others create the conditions for life-saving interventions. With us, fantastic people work towards the same goal – to make a real difference, and for life ahead.

Job Description

As a support educator in the Deaf Team, you will provide support to adults who are deaf from childhood in order to prevent and reduce the difficulties that deafness can entail in life. You will be a guiding educator for clients in contacts with authorities, employers, and organizations, for example. In your work, you will primarily offer individual consultations. An important part of the work is also to convey knowledge about Deaf culture and living conditions, as well as to drive overarching issues based on the accessibility needs of the target group in society. As a team member and in the unit, you will be involved in both the development and improvement work of the Deaf Team's activities and the unit.

Work Group

The Deaf Team in Östergötland is a uniquely composed team, and through collaboration between Region Östergötland, Norrköping Municipality, and Linköping Municipality, a broad competence is created in the team for valuable access to societal support measures. You will work closely with an experienced colleague in the unit and collaborate with two colleagues belonging to the municipalities.

About You

We see that you are an educated social worker, social educator, or have another relevant post-secondary education within social work that the employer assesses as equivalent.

Previous social pedagogical work with the deaf group is meritorious.

You have good computer skills as well as very good knowledge of the Swedish spoken and written language and can communicate in sign language. A driver's license (B) is a requirement.

We place great emphasis on personal suitability. In order to support and meet the needs of the target group, you are secure, stable, and have self-insight. You take great responsibility for your work tasks and are structured. To succeed in your efforts, you also have the ability to take initiative and drive your processes forward.

We work closely together and need to have good and clear communication to successfully solve the tasks we encounter in everyday life. Therefore, the position suits you if you thrive in collaboration and are attentive and communicative with both colleagues, clients, and other parties.

Application and Employment

Before employment in a patient-related role within Region Östergötland, you will need to fill out an application (https://ledsys.lio.se/Document/Document?DocumentNumber=54500).

Warm welcome to submit your application! If you need help registering in the system, please contact customer service Support and Service at 010-103 60 00 during office hours.

To staffing, placement, and recruitment companies and to you as a seller: We kindly but firmly request no direct contact with staffing, placement, and recruitment companies, as well as other external actors and sellers of additional job advertisements. Region Östergötland has contracted agreements.