Speech-Language Pathologist

Habilitering & Hälsa offers specialized care and support to people with permanent functional disabilities, including impaired ability to communicate, see, hear, or move. The goal is to maintain and develop functional abilities, create conditions for good health, and enable active participation in society. Do you want to make a difference for people with functional disabilities? Welcome to Habilitering & Hälsa, part of Västra Götalandsregionen. Together we have the power to change. Habilitation is specialized health and medical care for children and young people with autism, intellectual disabilities, mobility impairments, or acquired brain injuries. We provide health-promoting and therapeutic services based on each individual's unique needs and conditions, and have specialist knowledge about how functional disabilities can affect daily life, health, and development. Description Do you want to help children who had a different start in life reach their full potential? Do you want the opportunity to use the full breadth of your speech-language pathology expertise? Then we hope you apply to Habilitering! We are now recruiting a speech-language pathologist for a permanent full-time position (100%). We welcome your application! Responsibilities As a speech-language pathologist in habilitation, you work with speech, language, communication, oral motor skills, and eating, swallowing, and drinking difficulties. Your responsibilities include assessment, diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, assistive device prescription, and a large part of consulting with parents and staff. The work is characterized by variety and involves working in a team around the child/young person. Work takes place at the habilitering facilities and, as needed, in the patient's local environment. Qualifications You must be a licensed speech-language pathologist with experience working with children and young people with functional disabilities. Experience working in habilitation is strongly meriting. Collaboration skills, flexibility, and good interpersonal relations are essential to us, so considerable weight is placed on personal suitability. The position involves travel, so a Class B driver's license is required. Other Information Within Habilitering & Hälsa, we strive for an equal gender distribution and view diversity as a strength, where our employees' differences enrich and develop the organization. Recruitment is ongoing, and you may be invited to an interview before the application deadline expires. Habilitering & Hälsa's employment benefits include occupational pension, salary exchange, group insurance, free open health and medical care, and wellness allowance. You can read more about Habilitering on our website: www.vgregion.se/hoh About Västra Götalandsregionen With us, you become part of something larger. We are 56,000 employees in over 200 professions who make a difference in people's lives across Västra Götaland every day. You contribute to safe and equitable care and to a sustainable society where environment, culture, and good communications create quality of life. We are in the midst of digital development where you get to help shape the working methods of the future to improve and simplify everyday life for residents and operations. As a permanent employee, you will be registered for civil preparedness as part of our shared responsibility to ensure that socially critical functions work even during crises. Want to know more about us? On our website you can read more about our benefits and meet employees who make a difference and develop in their professions every day. https://www.vgregion.se/jobba-i-vgr/sa-ar-det-att-jobba-hos-oss/ Application Västra Götalandsregionen prefers that you register your application through the recruitment system. If you have questions about the advertised position or for special and particular reasons cannot register your information in a public system, please contact the contact person for the respective job posting. To staffing, placement, and recruitment companies and to those selling: We respectfully but firmly decline direct contact from staffing, placement, and recruitment companies and other external actors and sellers of additional job postings. Västra Götalandsregionen has procurement agreements in place.

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