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Do you want to help create the best conditions for equal education? At the Swedish National Agency for Special Needs Education and Schools (SPSM), we work to ensure that all children, students, and adult learners with disabilities achieve their educational goals. We operate our own special schools in various locations across Sweden. We also provide support to preschools and schools nationwide to collaboratively create learning environments that are developing and accessible. Additionally, we distribute government grants and develop teaching materials. Together, we remove barriers!

We hope that you, as an applicant, with your background and competence, can contribute to increasing our diversity.

We are committed to making everyone's equal value a reality. Together, we use collaboration and expertise to solve assignments. Developing leadership and increasing diversity are some of the items currently on our agenda. Together, we contribute to sustainability in society economically, socially, and environmentally. You can read more about what we offer at www.spsm.se/ledigajobb (http://www.spsm.se/ledigajobb)

Within the area of special educational support, we work to ensure that our special educational support creates conditions for all children, students, and adult learners with disabilities to access an equal education and other quality activities in a safe environment. We complement the municipalities' and schools' own special educational resources. The support we offer can involve individual learning, educators' work, or operations and organization.

The Resource Center Department has resource centers for students who:

• are deafblind
• have visual impairment or blindness
• have visual impairment or blindness with additional disabilities
• are deaf or have hearing impairment with intellectual disabilities
• have a severe speech impairment

We conduct special educational investigations that are part of the agency's support. The investigation addresses pedagogical questions and provides well-founded recommendations regarding the needs required for an accessible learning environment.

The agency's special educational support aims to be promoting and preventive to provide long-term and sustainable learning for children and students with disabilities.

We are looking for advisors for SPSM's Resource Center for Speech and Language, which provides national special educational support in the area of severe speech impairment to principals, teachers, and educational staff.

At the request of the principal, we conduct interdisciplinary special educational investigations with advisors, psychologists, and speech therapists. We also offer information and training to teachers, educational staff, and guardians.

We currently have 10 employees located in Stockholm and Umeå. As an advisor, you will work with complex special educational issues. You will provide advice and support to student health, principals, teachers, and other staff in preschools and schools.

RESPONSIBILITIES

As an advisor, you will work with special educational investigations in requests from preschools and schools. The support we provide should be preventive and promoting to achieve long-term and sustainable results. The special educational support should facilitate preschools and schools in providing an equal education according to the requirements of the Education Act. Each request is unique in its own way. As an agency, we are a process-driven organization. You, in dialogue with colleagues and management, will have opportunities to influence the design of the support provided. You will be part of a multidisciplinary team consisting of psychologists, speech therapists, and advisors.

Internal and external meetings are conducted partly digitally.

Since we have a national assignment across Sweden, travel with overnight stays in other locations is included.

Responsibilities:

• to conduct special educational investigations and document the special educational recommendations
• to provide recommendations for developing learning environments and teaching for increased opportunities for knowledge development
• to focus on children's rights to a language
• to develop and implement various training initiatives
• to have a good ability and experience of working independently and in teams both internally and externally
• to follow and incorporate national and international research and proven experience in the areas of school development and speech impairment.

The work as an advisor is a varied and stimulating job where you have the opportunity to influence your own work situation. You will have access to a wide network of various competencies within the special educational field. In some assignments and tasks, you will have close collaboration with colleagues in other units within the agency and from different parts of the country.

The work also includes participating in development work within the field and continuously developing your skills to deepen your knowledge in the area of special education with a focus on speech impairment.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone who has:

• teaching certification with authorization to teach grades 1-3 in primary school
• degree as a special teacher or special educator
• several years of experience teaching reading skills at the primary level
• experience in pedagogical mapping
• experience in investigations in interdisciplinary teams
• experience working with children and students with speech impairment
• is well-grounded in the school's curriculum, values, and governing documents as well as goals for disability policy
• has a driver's license
• good ability to use the Swedish language in speech and writing
• good ability to handle IT-based tools and teaching materials

It is meritorious if you have:

• education with a specialization/focus on speech impairment
• experience working with children in preschool class
• experience in multicultural learning environments
• experience leading discussions with groups

Personal qualities:

We are looking for someone who:

• has a good ability to work in teams, develop new contacts, and create good relationships
• has good ability and experience working independently and in groups
• has a good structure and order in your work approach
• possesses initiative and development ability

OTHER

Probationary employment of 6 months applies.

A criminal record extract must be presented before employment.

In the event of a societal crisis, you may be directed between the agency's operational areas based on your placement location.

In this recruitment, we collaborate with Jefferson Wells.