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Stockholm – our capital city of millions of dreams, expectations, and ambitions. We work for everyone who lives here today and in the future. We are now looking for you who want to think big, new, and different with us – for the people of Stockholm.

Welcome to us

Our special needs educator is moving on to new challenges, and we are now looking for a playful, engaged, and experienced team member.

Stockholm's habilitation unit receives children with motor disabilities aged 2–6 years. The children are offered intensive habilitation two days a week in groups of five children. The children come to the unit together with a preschool teacher. During the week, the unit receives two groups of children. The children are referred from the Region's habilitation center, which hands over the habilitation responsibility during one or more training periods (terms).

You can read more about us on our website.

We offer

• A fun and varied job in close collaboration with a team consisting of an occupational therapist, a speech therapist, two physiotherapists, and one additional special needs educator.
• Opportunities for further education and development of your own competence. The team also works with internal training to broaden each other's knowledge base.
• A sabbatical service with leave for the entire summer and during the Christmas and New Year holidays.
• An annual wellness allowance of 3,000 SEK that can be used for activities related to movement, exercise, and other wellness activities.
• Read more about Stockholm City's benefits for employees.

Your role

The goal of the special educational interventions is to create favorable conditions for the child's development, learning, independence, and participation.

The special needs educator plans and leads groups together with colleagues in the team and collaborates with the speech therapist regarding the children's communication and alternative communication methods. Supervision of colleagues, preschool staff, and guardians regarding attitudes, the child's development, and pedagogical issues is also part of the job.

Your skills and experience

We are looking for you who are a special needs educator or alternatively have an education assessed as equivalent by the employer. You have experience working with young children with motor and communicative functional variations. As a special needs educator with us, you need to have knowledge and experience of:

• Working with preschool children
• Motor disabilities
• Intellectual disabilities
• Autism and autism-like conditions
• Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), such as PECS and graphic AAC, e.g., PODD
• Vision and hearing-related issues

The position includes both administration (journal writing, etc.) and contact with many different people, which means you need to have good ability to express yourself in Swedish, both orally and in writing.

You are comfortable leading groups with children and accompanying adults. You are creative, playful, and open to finding new solutions in contact with the children and their network, and you have experience with teamwork. We are looking for a colleague who is unpretentious, positive, and willing to jump in where needed. Great emphasis is placed on personal suitability.

We warmly welcome your application!

Your application

To work with children, you must present a valid extract from the police criminal record and suspicion register before an employment offer is made.

When we select and decide who will be called for an interview, we will make the selection based on the CV and answers to selection questions. We recruit without a cover letter to be able to focus on the competencies and experiences needed for the position. Therefore, it is important that you answer the selection questions as clearly as possible so that we can make a selection.

The application is open during our summer break, and contact with the recruitment manager can only take place from August 10th.

Stockholm City works with competence-based recruitment aimed at looking at each person's competence and thereby combating discrimination.

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