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When you work in Halmstad municipality, you help shape, strengthen, and enrich the everyday lives of others. Your contribution is meaningful to us - whoever you are. We are looking for someone who wants to contribute to a better Halmstad.

Halmstad is an expanding municipality where we work to ensure that our 105,000 residents thrive and get more out of life. Here are the opportunities for you who want a meaningful job and contribute with commitment and innovative thinking. Together with 10,000 colleagues, you are helping to build the hometown, knowledge city, and experience city. Read more about us here (https://www.halmstad.se/intro).

The Children and Youth Administration is responsible for Halmstad's municipal preschools, primary schools, adapted primary schools, after-school care, and cultural schools. Every day, approximately 16,000 children attend one of our facilities.

We are looking for someone who wants to work to ensure that every child and student gets the best start in life. Welcome to develop in Halmstad municipality's largest administration where your contributions will make a difference every day. With us, you are helping to create the future!

Do you want to be part of creating something unique? We are looking for engaged and creative employees for our newly started resource school, where you will have the opportunity to make a real difference in each student's life. Here you will have the chance to build a learning environment from the ground up, focusing on meeting each student's individual needs and helping them reach their full potential. If you are interested in working with students who need extra support and want to be part of an innovative and inspiring team – then this is your opportunity! We are now looking for a qualified special educator/special teacher.

The resource school is a small school (grades 4-9) that works based on a well-developed pedagogical approach tailored for students with extensive needs for special support. All students study according to the primary school's curriculum. At the resource school, students have the opportunity to develop both knowledge and skills. The operation is conducted with a high staff density in a safe, structured, and adapted environment in new premises where the learning environment is well adapted to the operation both indoors and outdoors. Well-being and life perspective are central, and the relationship between student–staff–guardians is a starting point for all work at the school.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

In your role as a special educator/special teacher, you are part of, or lead, the school's student health team together with the principal, school psychologist, school nurse, school social worker, etc. You have close collaboration with teachers, the principal, and other staff at the school. You work both preventively and operationally with students in need of adjustments and support. You recognize the importance of differentiated instruction and accessible learning environments that promote all students' education in the best way, and you are driven to develop sustainable working methods together with colleagues, teachers, and the principal.

You develop the teaching together with colleagues where you share experiences and, with a formative approach, support and challenge so that the teaching evolves. Through, for example, observations, you map and analyze efforts related to students' learning and propose constructive improvements focusing on the quality of teaching and students' learning. You guide educational staff on how teaching and the learning environment can be adapted at both group and individual levels, based on each student's conditions and an inclusive approach.

Through good relationships with students, colleagues, and guardians, you communicate high expectations regarding students' learning, where you act as a qualified conversation partner.

You utilize student influence so that students develop ownership of their learning process and provide feedback to the student that advances learning towards set goals and knowledge requirements. You stay updated on current research and use it to develop teaching based on scientific principles and proven experience.

As a special educator at the Resource School, you will receive regular supervision and professional development and be part of the municipality's network for special educational competence.

QUALIFICATIONS

Teacher certification with qualifications for grades 4-9 and special teacher certification or special educator degree.

Experience working in a resource school, in SUND or flex groups, as well as knowledge of AST/NPF is meritorious. Experience with clear pedagogical methods, experience-based learning, modeling, communication, and identity-strengthening approaches. Continuing education in reading and writing acquisition and/or mathematics acquisition. Experience and knowledge of guiding teachers in complex teaching situations.

We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

OTHER

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process at Halmstad municipality and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally.

The Children and Youth Administration values the qualities that a balanced age and gender distribution, as well as ethnic and cultural diversity, bring to the operation. We therefore welcome applicants who contribute to this.

Before employment, you need to demonstrate that you have the right to work, as required by the Aliens Ordinance. You do this by proving your citizenship in the EU/EES or Switzerland through a passport, national ID card, or personal certificate along with an identity document. If you cannot do this, you need to present a work permit or show that you are exempt from the requirement for a work permit.

If you are offered employment within the Children and Youth Administration, you are obliged to present a clean extract from the Police's criminal record for work within schools/preschools. The extract is free of charge and takes about 2-3 weeks for the police to process. Therefore, order in good time!

The position is filled on the condition that it is not claimed by surplus staff.

We kindly decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this advertisement.

Warm welcome with your application!