Welcome to Härryda, a municipality that dares!

Here we aim to have Sweden's best schools and business climate, care of the highest quality, and attractive community building. Together, we are 3000 employees who make the meeting with Härryda municipality easy. With courage, innovation, and decisiveness, we inspire each other and deliver service with competence and quality. Härryda municipality has ranked among the top in Dagens Samhälles annual ranking of Sweden's super municipality for the past four years.

We are looking for someone who is engaged, open to different perspectives, and wants to create solutions that will last for future generations. You can find us between Gothenburg and Borås, with Landvetter Airport located in the middle of the municipality. Together we achieve more!

Härryda municipality consists of the areas Mölnlycke, Landvetter, Härryda, Hindås, Rävlanda, and Hällingsjö. It is a ten-minute drive and a 15-minute bus ride from central Gothenburg to the central locality of Mölnlycke. The municipality has about 40,000 inhabitants. Landvetter Airport is located in the municipality. The proximity to both nature and the city attracts many to settle here. The municipality has a significant influx of families with children and is a child-friendly and expanding part of the Gothenburg region. Approximately 2,700 people work in the municipal administration. Härryda municipality offers a wellness allowance of 3000 SEK.

We are looking for a psychologist for the Student Health unit in Härryda municipality, with an office in Mölnlycke. The Student Health unit consists of three teams: the Psychology team, the Attendance team, and the Speech Therapy team. The unit is characterized by high competence, systematic work, and a spirit of development. The current position is divided between the Psychology team (60%) and the Attendance team (40%).

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

As a school psychologist, you provide the psychological expertise in the school's student health work and are an important profession in the overall student health team. The mission of the student health team is primarily to work health-promoting and preventive and to support students' development towards educational goals. The current position involves shared work between school psychological work in the student health team and student-centered individual interventions for students with problematic school absenteeism, as part of the Attendance team.

Your main responsibilities in the Psychology team include competence and operational development, implementation of evidence-based methods, supervision, consultation, and conducting assessments. The work takes place at the organizational, group, and individual levels. Your main responsibilities in the Attendance team are individual interventions with students experiencing problematic school absenteeism, where a psychological intervention is deemed crucial to prevent long-term absence or address school-related mental health issues. The principal leads the student health work in the schools, and you will collaborate with the professionals in student health, teachers, other school staff, and other stakeholders.

The Psychology team meets weekly for psychologist meetings to work together on operational, development, and patient safety issues. The Psychology team has shared external supervision. The Attendance team also meets regularly for collaborative work. The Psychological Management Responsible (PLA) is tasked with supporting the work with processes and routines regarding HSL interventions.

With us, you will get:

• To work in a municipality with high ambitions.
• To work with well-functioning schools.
• A unique opportunity to combine health-promoting and preventive interventions in schools' student health work with more clinically oriented work at the individual level in the Attendance team.
• The opportunity to develop both in the short and long term. Several school psychologists undergo specialist training, and with us, you have great opportunities to continue developing in your professional role.
• To be an important part of the Psychology team's systematic and operationally close development work. We implement evidence-based methods in several of the municipality's schools. Currently, we are working on implementing PAX in schools, positive behavioral support in the classroom, YAM, and the school model PALS/IBIS. For several years, we have also had ongoing work aimed at students with special talents and 2E.
• A present manager and good opportunities for collegial support and internal competence development.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone who:

• Is a licensed psychologist.
• Has experience in clinical work with children and adolescents at the primary or specialist care level.
• Has experience in school psychological student health work.
• Is goal-oriented, empathetic, collaborative, and can drive your own work independently. It is important that you can be flexible and structure your work according to the needs of the operations and students.

It is an advantage if you have training in PAX in schools, YAM, or the school model PALS/IBIS. It is also advantageous to have good knowledge in learning psychology, positive behavioral support, and CBT.

Great emphasis is placed on personal suitability. The position offers great opportunities for flexibility based on the municipality's guidelines and the needs of the operations.

To obtain employment, a certificate from the Police's criminal record must be presented.

OTHER

Recruitment and selection are ongoing, so do not wait to submit your application! We see diversity as a strength and therefore welcome applicants from different backgrounds.

We would like to inform you that your application is a public document according to the principle of public access to information. If you as an applicant have protected personal information, please send your application in paper form to:

Härryda municipality
Human Resources, Sofia Götberg
435 80 Mölnlycke

Your application will be handled according to the municipality's routine for handling protected personal information during recruitment and employment. Please indicate the reference number of the advertisement in your application so we know which position you are applying for.

In the first instance, we prefer that you apply for the position through our recruitment system.

In preparation for the recruitment process, we have decided on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore strongly request no contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.