2 months ago
Speech Therapist in Early Childhood (30 %)
- Publication date:07 August 2025
- Workload:30%
- Contract type:Unlimited employment
- Place of work:Oensingen
Job summary
The ZKSK is an interdisciplinary center for children with disabilities. Join us to make a difference in a supportive environment!
Tasks
- Therapize preschool children with speech acquisition disorders.
- Assist families dealing with swallowing and feeding difficulties.
- Collaborate closely with parents and professionals for holistic care.
Skills
- Degree in speech therapy and experience with children required.
- Knowledge of supported communication and assessments.
- Enjoy working independently and managing cases.
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About the job
The Center for Children with Sensory and Physical Disabilities ZKSK is an interdisciplinary competence center for children and adolescents with physical, sensory, and multiple disabilities. At four locations, we offer individual medical and pedagogical therapy services. With psychological and medical assessments as well as therapies, we support, advise, and accompany children and families. To complement our team, we are looking for a Speech Therapist in Early Childhood (30 %) at our therapy center in Oensingen, starting immediately or by arrangement. You will treat preschool children with speech acquisition disorders and advise parents in our outpatient therapy center. Your tasks- Accompanying in individual therapy settings during the discovery of language and the improvement of speech behavior
- Therapy for children with swallowing and feeding difficulties and advising their families
- Expanding linguistic-communicative competencies
- Close collaboration with parents and caregivers
- Collaboration with pediatricians, specialists, or other professionals
- Speech therapy assessment of voice, speech, and perception disorders according to recognized standardized assessment procedures
- Supported communication (if necessary, provision of aids)
- Independent handling of administration (scheduling appointments, reporting)
- Degree in Speech Therapy
- Further training for the therapy of children with swallowing and feeding difficulties or the
- Knowledge and/or great interest in supported communication (UK)
- Experience working with children
- Knowledge of common assessments in speech therapy or willingness to learn them
- Enjoyment of independent work, case management, and administration
- Enthusiasm for interdisciplinary collaboration, where the child is at the center
- Cooperative environment with internal professionals from therapy and medicine
- Good working conditions with annual working time model and family-friendly working and
- Attractive salary and modern social benefits
- Opportunities for further training within and outside our institution
- Workplace with modern infrastructure
