Vacant job

Through our core values of courage, tolerance, and creativity, Uppvidinge Municipality works to provide excellent service and develop vital community functions for our residents, visitors, and businesses. Uppvidinge Municipality is the largest employer in the municipality with approximately 800 employees. Here, we want our staff to feel a strong sense of participation, with room for flexibility and development.

We offer meaningful work where we have the opportunity together to truly make a difference for the municipality's residents. We welcome your application and invite you to a municipality with a thriving business life, a rich association life, and proximity to nature!

Workplace: Lenhovda
Number of positions: 1

Job Description

As a student assistant, you will work closely with a student who needs extra support throughout the school day. A central part of the role is to provide communicative support through Swedish Sign Language (TSP) and to adapt communication to the student's individual conditions.

If you have experience with CI (cochlear implants), this is valuable as you can contribute to a safe and responsive communicative environment where the student's needs and signals are noticed and reinforced.

You support the student in their education by clarifying instructions, creating structure, and helping the student understand and participate in both learning situations and social contexts. The work also includes practical moments during the day where the student needs support.

The position includes work at the after-school center (fritidshem). There, you become part of the regular work team and actively participate in the planning and implementation of activities for the entire student group. At the same time, you continue to be a communicative and social support for the student you follow.

You collaborate closely with the class teacher, special education teacher, and other pedagogues to create a safe, inclusive, and stimulating environment. Your work contributes to the student feeling included, understood, and encouraged both at school and at the after-school center.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who have education and/or experience within pedagogy or the child and youth care field. You have experience with or a strong interest in working with students in need of special support.

Requirements:

• Good knowledge of Swedish Sign Language (TSP).
• Ability to adapt communication and working methods to the student's needs.

Merits:

• Experience working with students with hearing impairments.
• Knowledge of and preferably experience working with students who use CI (cochlear implants).
• Previous work in school or other educational activities.

To thrive and succeed in the role of student assistant, you need to have a genuine commitment to working with children and young people. You have an easy time creating safe and trusting relationships, both with students and colleagues.

We value that you are:

• Patient and responsive
• Flexible and secure in adapting to changes in everyday life
• Solution-oriented and see opportunities in challenges

Personal suitability will have great significance in the selection process.

Terms of Employment

• Salary: Monthly salary
• Employment type: Permanent position
• Working hours: Daytime

The appointment is subject to necessary decisions being made. If you are considered for employment, the employer will request a certificate from the Swedish Police Authority (criminal record check). The Municipal Executive Board has decided that all new hires must present a criminal record check before employment. The certificate required is for work in school or preschool.

To ensure quality in the recruitment process in Uppvidinge Municipality and to enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally, not via email or paper format.

In connection with the recruitment work, Uppvidinge Municipality has taken a stance on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore expressly decline contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.