Special Education Teacher in the Children's Team at Child and Youth Rehabilitation

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Do you want to be part of an organization that works to make a difference and create better conditions for children and youth with disabilities? Are you skilled at sharing your knowledge? Apply for the position with us! Child and Youth Rehabilitation (BUH) is a specialist unit within regional healthcare that provides support to children and young people aged 0-21 and their families. The unit serves children and youth with congenital or early-acquired disabilities that are permanent and require multidisciplinary interventions to help them manage daily difficulties. In addition to its core mission, the unit is responsible for additional assignments including Eating Team, Rehabilitation Team, and Risk Child Follow-up. Organizationally, the unit is divided into a children's team, youth team, and two autism teams with an overarching medical coordination group distributed across the teams. The unit consists of 45 employees distributed among the following positions: occupational therapist, physiotherapist/physical therapist, dietitian, speech-language pathologist, psychologist, social worker, childcare worker, special education teacher, pediatric nurse, urotherапist, child neurologist with administrative support from a medical secretary. Services are provided in the form of multidisciplinary teams to the child/young person and their network. Child and Youth Rehabilitation is part of the Children and Young Adults (BUV) area together with Adult Rehabilitation, Parent and Child Health, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. These four units are co-located centrally at Köpmangatan 24 in Östersund. 1 position(s). DUTIES As a special education teacher at BUH, your work will focus on younger children with neurosomatosensory and neuropsychiatric disabilities such as mobility impairments, intellectual disabilities, autism, or multiple disabilities. You will be part of a multidisciplinary team around the child where your special education expertise provides the pedagogical component of the intervention. At the unit, you have two experienced special education teacher colleagues, which enables close collegial exchange, supervision, and mentorship. Together you hold regular professional meetings where you address professional matters. Your duties consist of preschool and school observations, assessments for evaluations, and interventions providing support to the child's network regarding interaction during play, social engagement, and communication. Interventions can take place in the child's home, preschool/school, or at BUH. The special education teacher works to create good conditions for the child's learning and skill development through pedagogical methods and assistive devices as well as through group treatment and training for the child's network. Interventions are designed and planned based on each child's specific needs, goals, and circumstances. As a special education teacher at BUH, you are the team's pedagogical voice. All staff work toward the child's participation in their rehabilitation, but as a special education teacher you have an additional responsibility to help your colleagues understand how to include the child considering their specific circumstances. Together with your colleagues, you ensure that decisions concerning the child are made in the child's best interest. QUALIFICATIONS It is a requirement that you have worked with children in preschool age. Experience working in child and youth rehabilitation is desirable. You need knowledge of and willingness to participate in teamwork as a working method and collaborate within your own discipline depending on the task. Knowledge and experience working with applied behavior analysis and intensive behavior training for young children is desirable. The work requires high standards for the ability to create structure, both for your own planning and in collaboration with colleagues. Communication and responsibility regarding your own task and the ability to manage boundaries with colleagues' tasks are fundamental to the operation. Great consideration is given to personal suitability, work experience, and collaboration skills, and we welcome diversity in the team. A special education teacher degree or ongoing/planned studies to become a special education teacher is a requirement. A class B driver's license is required. Employment form: Permanent employment. Duration: Permanent, start date: By agreement. If you want to know more about the position, you are warmly welcome to contact us! At Region Jämtland Härjedalen, our work is characterized by our core values: we create value for those we serve, act with initiative, and strive to always be perceived as reliable. With us, you have the opportunity to work in an organization where these values shape everyday life and where your work truly makes a difference. Selection and hiring may occur continuously during the advertisement period. As an applicant, you must submit an extract from the criminal record register when offered the position. As an employee, you have access to a wide range of benefits through our benefits portal. We care about your health and offer fitness subsidies or fitness hours. At Östersund Hospital, you can also train for free at the gym Zefyren and participate in led classes. We have an established procedure for recruitment and therefore kindly but firmly decline contact from job advertising salespeople or other sellers of recruitment services.Do you want to be part of an organization that works to make a difference and create better conditions for children and youth with disabilities? Are you skilled at sharing your knowledge? Apply for the position with us! Child and Youth Rehabilitation (BUH) is a specialist unit within regional healthcare that provides support to children and young people aged 0-21 and their families. The unit serves children and youth with congenital or early-acquired disabilities that are permanent and require multidisciplinary interventions to help them manage daily difficulties. In addition to its core…

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Status

active

Visibility

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City

Östersund

Address

Köpmangatan 24

GPS

63.178741163834, 14.633322732933copyopen in

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Published

17. 6. 2026

Edited

23. 7. 2026

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