Speech Therapist to Mölndal Municipality

In Mölndal Municipality, we are proud to have Sweden's most important jobs where we together create the best possible everyday life for our citizens. With knowledge, courage, and creativity, we develop our operations and contribute to making Mölndal an even better place to live and work. Welcome to make a difference in people's everyday lives every day!

The central student health team works with all schools and preschools in Mölndal and consists of 10 employees led by a unit manager.

In Mölndal Municipality's school administration, we work every day to create the best conditions for children's and students' development and lifelong learning. With about 2,000 dedicated employees and 12,000 children and students in our operations, we are Mölndal's largest administration - and a hub for the education of the future. Here you will be part of a curious, brave, and solution-focused organization where innovation is encouraged and the best interests of the child always come first.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Your mission is to support students' development, learning, and health. You will do this through preventive and health-promoting measures and by contributing to the development of communicatively accessible learning environments and supporting operations with language-developing approaches.

In your role, you will contribute with speech therapy expertise in communication and AAC, language, speech, reading, and writing skills, as well as digital learning tools, for example, through training and guidance to staff.

As a centrally employed school speech therapist, you will have a shared mission in adapted primary school and primary school, including at the city's newly established resource school.

You will be part of the student health team in the operations and work on behalf of the principals in each operation.

Through regular professional meetings, you will also collaborate with the central school speech therapist.

Your responsibilities include:

• Professional development for staff.
• Guidance and consultation.
• Observation and model guidance.
• To be responsible for the operation's work with the guarantee of early support measures together with a special educator in adapted primary school.
• To support the operations' work with the implementation of evidence-based methods and systematic work with students' language, reading, and writing development.
• Cross-professional collaboration with other professions in student health, principals, and teachers.
• Support staff in the work with prescribed communication aids.

QUALIFICATIONS

Qualifications

We are looking for a licensed speech therapist with experience in speech therapy interventions in schools. It is an advantage if you have experience in adapted primary schools, students with intellectual disabilities, or work in resource schools. We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

You need to have:

• Good knowledge of AAC, including sign language and communication aids
• Good knowledge of digital learning tools and interest in digital development work
• Good ability to initiate, plan, and conduct training and meetings
• Experience in initiating and leading health-promoting and preventive measures at group and organizational levels
• Good collaboration skills, flexibility, and the ability to work independently

Welcome with your application!

OTHER

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According to the Education Act (2010:800), anyone offered this employment must present a certificate from the criminal record. This applies to all employees who work or are present in premises with students under 18 years of age. The processing time for a certificate is about two weeks, and you order it yourself via the police's website. Please order the certificate at the same time you submit your application so that you have everything ready if you are offered the position. If you already have a certificate, it must not be older than one year. The certificate "school or preschool" should be used. Order your certificate from the criminal record at the police's website: https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/ (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/)

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