Sign language user sought for a 5-year-old child in Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality

Sign language user for the Bondebyen Kindergarten is sought

Sign language user sought for a 5-year-old child in Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality

Do you want to help give a 5-year-old child the opportunity to actively participate in the community and start learning sign language ahead of school start?

We are seeking a Danish-speaking sign language user or sign language interpreter for a temporary position of 12 hours per week, starting as soon as possible. The position runs until July 2027, when the child starts school. You will be employed at Bondebyen's Kindergarten in Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality, where you will have a special position.

You will be an important part of the child's daily life and have a central role in supporting the child's communication, participation and development in the kindergarten.

About the job

Your primary task will be to be the child's sign language support and personal assistance in daily life.

You will primarily be with the child in the kindergarten, where you support the child's ability to understand and participate in the activities and communities the child is part of. You will also have an important role in ensuring the child has access to sign language and be a natural sign language role model in daily life.

You should among other things

• support the child's communication and participation in the kindergarten's daily life
• use sign language actively and naturally together with the child
• be involved in developing the child's sign language ahead of school start
• translate the communication in relevant situations
• help the child become more independent in their communication
• collaborate with the pedagogical staff to create good communicative frames around the child
• contribute to making sign language a natural part of the child's daily life and communities

You will not be alone with the task. You will be part of a collaboration around the child, where the focus is on creating coherence between the child’s everyday life in the kindergarten, home and the upcoming school start.

About us

You will become part of Bondebyen's Kindergarten resource group where you will work closely with the classroom staff. Bondebyen's Kindergarten is a house with history and a strong professional identity.

We are a house with space for 57 children with 10 resource placements for children with various contact difficulties and 20 skilled colleagues.

We are physically located in an older charming villa in the heart of the old Lyngby, which provides opportunities to access cultural offerings nearby and to visit the green areas we are also blessed with.

We are a group of people who value diversity highly and who have trust and great respect for one another and our children.

We believe in collaboration, professionalism, and that we can solve most things when we use each other. Without sounding ceremonial, one can speak of a special spirit that is felt in many ways.

We are pleased to have the opportunity to invite you further into this.

We collaborate with Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality, where we work interdisciplinary to create good development and participation opportunities for children and young people.

You will thus have close collaboration with us in the kindergarten, PPR and relevant professionals around the child. We emphasize that you can work independently as well as engage constructively in close collaboration with the adults around the child.

We expect that you

• You are a Danish-speaking sign language user or sign language interpreter with strong sign language skills
• want to work closely with a 5-year-old child and follow the child's development over a period
• can use sign language actively and naturally in a kindergarten daily life
• understand that children learn and develop through play, relationships and participation in communities
• can create a safe and trusting relationship with the child
• can engage in close collaboration with pedagogical staff, parents and professionals
• can work flexibly and see opportunities in a daily routine where tasks are based on the child's needs
• are eager to help create a solid foundation for the child's upcoming school start.

It is an advantage if you have experience with children, but the most important thing is that you have strong sign language skills and the desire to use them actively with the child.

We offer

• a meaningful and very practical task, where you have the opportunity to make a concrete difference for a child
• a daily life close to the child and the pedagogical environment in the kindergarten
• a close professional collaboration with the kindergarten's pedagogical staff, PPR and relevant professionals
• opportunity to help support the child's sign language development ahead of school start
• a workplace focused on professionalism, collaboration and well-being.

Practical

We process applications and hold interviews ongoing and hire when we have found the right candidate.

You will be employed according to the applicable collective agreement. Depending on your qualifications and skills there is a possibility for negotiation of pay supplements.

If you have questions about the position, you are welcome to contact the head of Bondebyen, Rikke Munck Petersen at phone 21 35 16 91 or email [email protected] or speech therapist Gitte Møllenberg at phone 23 41 72 93 (Tuesday-Thursday) or email [email protected].

In Lyngby-Taarbæk you will become part of a strong professional community with high ambitions in an organization with about 4,000 employees, all working towards the common goal – to create value for citizens and the business community. We emphasize good leadership, well-being, professional and personal development opportunities, creativity and innovation, as well as a balance between work and leisure. We see diversity as a resource and value that employees each contribute with their unique background, personality and abilities.