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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 throughout the country to collaboratively create developing and accessible learning environments. Additionally, we distribute state 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 tasks. 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 equivalent education and other quality activities in a safe environment. We complement the municipalities' and schools' own special educational resources. The support we offer can relate to the individual's learning, the educators' work, or the organization and operation.

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 as part of the agency's support. The investigation addresses educational questions and provides well-founded recommendations regarding the needs required for an accessible learning environment.

The agency's special educational support aims to be proactive 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 based in Stockholm and Umeå. As an advisor, you will work with complex special educational issues. You will provide advice and support to student health services, principals, teachers, and other staff in preschools and schools.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

As an advisor, you will work with special educational investigations in inquiries 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 equivalent education according to the requirements of the Education Act. Each inquiry is unique in its own way. As an agency, we are a process-driven organization. You, in dialogue with colleagues and supervisors, 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 will occur partly digitally.

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

Job Tasks:

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

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

The work also includes participating in development work in the area and continuously developing your skills to deepen your knowledge in the field 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 educator or special teacher
• 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 an advantage 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 working method
• possesses initiative and development ability

OTHER

Probationary employment for 6 months applies.

A criminal record check must be presented before employment.

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

In this recruitment, we collaborate with Jefferson Wells.