Welcome to Forshaga Municipality!

We are about 1000 employees whose common mission is to create a good place to live, work, and thrive. In our vision "Forshaga Municipality 2040 - welcome warmly", the principles behind human rights are at the center. Here, everyone should feel welcome, safe, and included. Together, we make a difference for our residents - every day!

Forshaga Municipality is part of the Karlstad region in southern Värmland, beautifully located along the Klarälven river. Around 11,500 residents live here with proximity to nature, recreational activities, services, and culture. Here, you have the opportunity to live a safe life rich in experiences at your own pace. Together, we create a place with the heart in the right place to come home to!

We want to be an attractive employer where you, as an employee, enjoy and feel pride, commitment, and participation. We want to offer you development opportunities and employment conditions so that you want to stay and grow with us. As an employee with us, you have access to a range of benefits including health, wellness, and leave.

We are about 350 colleagues within the children and education administration who work in four school areas with children and students aged 1-16. We work to ensure that all children and young people have a good learning environment where they feel safe and have the opportunity to achieve good results. Welcome to one of our four school areas: Lärcenter, Skived, Ullerud, and Grossbol.

School Area Lärcenter

School Area Lärcenter has a primary school, adapted primary school, and a leisure center. We are an F-9 school with about 430 students. We want to be an attractive employer where employees enjoy and feel pride, commitment, and participation. We want to offer development opportunities and employment conditions so that our employees want to stay and grow with us. As an employee with us, you have access to a range of benefits including health, wellness, and leave to provide a good balance between work and leisure.

Responsibilities

You will be part of our student health team where the principal, special educator, study and career counselor, counselor, and school nurse collaborate in preventive, promotional, and remedial work. Other collaboration partners include staff, guardians, the school psychologist, and external partners. You will work at the individual, group, and organizational levels, such as staff training, individual sessions, classroom work. We place great emphasis on all student health personnel being visible and operationally close in our school.

Qualifications

Graduate in social work/therapist or other equivalent education. Experience in the operational areas is advantageous. Personal suitability is of great importance.

Conditions

Temporary position 100% during the period 2025-02-15-2026-01-07.

If you are offered employment in preschool, school, and youth and leisure activities, you are required by law to present an extract from the criminal records register. You must request an extract from the National Police Board with the form "Extract from the criminal records register" in the form archive from the police website.

Selection and interviews will be conducted continuously, and the position may be filled before the final application deadline.

Welcome with your application! We want you to send your application via our recruitment tool on our website. Information on how we handle your personal data can be found here (https://www.forshaga.se/GDPR). If, for any reason, you cannot apply in this way (e.g., protected identity), please contact the contact person of the advertisement for an alternative application path. We do not accept calls from staffing and recruitment agencies or job ad sellers.