Special Educator at Habilitation Centre Jönköping

Do you want to be part of creating the conditions for an independent life for children and young people with disabilities? Are you inspired by creating a good pedagogical environment and offering meaningful interventions for individuals in their daily lives? We are now looking for a special educator at the Habilitation Centre in Jönköping!

The Role of Special Educator

We are looking for a special educator for our unit for children and young people with intellectual disabilities, autism, ADHD, and/or motor impairments. As a special educator within the habilitation centre, you will contribute your special pedagogical competence to our team work. Within the clinic, we work in a cross-professional team around the patient. The team consists, in addition to the special educator, of a psychologist, counselor, occupational therapist, speech therapist, dietitian, nurse, doctor, physiotherapist, and care administrator.

The duties include mapping and stimulating children's development using pedagogical methods. As a special educator, you work with play, interaction, and communication to strengthen the child's opportunities for participation and development. In addition, you provide support to prevent and reduce challenging behaviors and explain the impact of the disability on daily life for those around the child.

Your work may also involve leading groups and giving lectures. The work is carried out in close cooperation with guardians and, if necessary, consultatively with other networks such as preschools, schools, care neighbors, and other activities. Our patients often have complex needs where collaboration is required, not only within the team but also with care neighbors, municipal activities, and other authorities. The tasks are varied and require flexibility as you will not only meet patients at the habilitation centre but also in their immediate environment if necessary.

Your Future Workplace

The Habilitation Centre works with people with some form of disability, and we address people who have:

• Intellectual disability
• Permanent motor disability that is congenital or acquired during childhood, such as cerebral palsy, spina bifida, or muscular dystrophy
• Neuropsychiatric disability in combination with intellectual disability
• Acquired brain injury with permanent cognitive impairment equivalent to intellectual disability
• Significant visual impairment, blindness, or deafblindness
• Deafness, hearing impairment, deafblindness, sound sensitivity, tinnitus, or other hearing-related disabilities.

The perspective is always both medical, pedagogical, psychological, and social. This makes relatives an important partner in terms of interventions and working methods.

The habilitation works based on intervention descriptions, habilitation programs, and care processes, where you as a pedagogical staff member participate from the patient's first visit, provide interventions, participate in habilitation planning, and evaluate our interventions. We document in the medical record system Cosmic.

The foundation of our work is the meeting with children, young people, and adults who come into contact with us based on their individual needs for habilitation. Our starting point is the equal value of all people. We build our operations through meaningful meetings. Everything culminates in our vision; A good life in an attractive region for everyone.

Your Profile

We are looking for you who are a special educator and have experience working with children with disabilities. As a special educator, you have experience in mapping children's development and providing interventions to stimulate the child's development regarding play, interaction, and communication in ages 0-18.

We prefer that you have experience working with challenging behaviors and preferably competence in TBA, clarifying pedagogy, and AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication). We would like you to have experience working consultatively with preschools and schools and working with pedagogical interventions for the child and family in the home environment. Many interventions are given individually, so you should feel comfortable with an independent working style. You need to be used to structuring and planning your own work as well as handling the documentation and administration that the work requires. You also need to have good cooperation skills and be driven by collegial learning as we have close cooperation with different professional categories at the unit.

We place great importance on personal suitability.

A valid driver's license (Category B) is required.

Our Offer to You

We offer you a varied and creative job with good development opportunities.

As a specialist activity, we focus on continuous further education and supervision. In the activity, there are competent and experienced special educators who offer collegial exchange and support.

The position is full-time with placement in one of the teams in Jönköping. Start date according to agreement.

We work with annual working hours, which gives good opportunities to plan your working time yourself.

As an employee with us within Region Jönköping County, you will have access to our employment benefits. Some of them increase your basic security, others add a bit of gold to everyday life. Read more about our benefits here: Benefits, Region Jönköping County (http://www.rjl.se/jobb-och-karriar/Jobba-hos-oss/Formaner/)

Do you have questions about the position?

If you want to know more about the position, you are welcome to contact:

• Unit Manager Christina Alnervik phone 010-2424366
• Special Educator Cicci Brandt 010-2424334

We are happy to receive calls from you who are interested in the job but decline calls from those who sell advertising and recruitment services.

Our Recruitment Process

The last day for applications is June 12, 2026. We interview continuously during the application period. Welcome with your application.

Read more about Region Jönköping County's recruitment process on our website: Our Recruitment Process, Region Jönköping County (https://rjl.se/jobb-och-karriar/Lediga-jobb/Var-rekryteringsprocess/)