Special Teacher with a Focus on Intellectual Disabilities

Valdemarsro Gymnasium is seeking an engaged special teacher with a focus on intellectual disabilities for teaching in an adapted upper secondary school. The position is a permanent full-time employment. In addition to the position, a lead teacher assignment is offered, a fixed-term appointment for three academic years with the possibility of extension.

Responsibilities

As a special teacher in this position, you will work with students with severe or profound intellectual disabilities. You will plan and conduct the educational work in accordance with applicable governing documents for the individual program within the adapted upper secondary school. The position involves teaching across all six subject areas and includes mentorship, where you are responsible for the group's and each individual student's academic and social development. The work is carried out in close collaboration with teaching assistants and other professionals, as well as in good cooperation with guardians and external partners. The assignment includes care and self-care tasks and may involve physical work tasks.

In addition to teaching, you will work as a lead teacher to strengthen the pedagogical development work for higher goal achievement and equity in the school based on current research. In this assignment, you will work on development tasks based on areas identified through systematic quality work in collaboration with school leaders, team leaders, and other lead teachers. Through follow-up and analysis of the work, you will focus on developing teaching supported by research and process-leading and developing collegial learning to contribute to the school's goal achievement. In your assignment, you will spread competence and professional skills to teachers and other staff, which also includes mentoring colleagues.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Teaching certification and additional training as a special teacher with a focus on intellectual disabilities (300 credits)
• Experience working with children and adolescents with multiple disabilities, both intellectual and physical
• Familiarity with external contacts and collaboration with staff, students, guardians, habilitation, child and adolescent psychiatry, individual and family care, and functions within LSS
• Digital competence that means it is natural to use the computer as a work tool and aid
• Good insight into the school's goals and governing documents
• Very good Swedish in speech and writing

For the lead teacher assignment, it is also required that you have:

• At least four years of documented well-rated work with teaching within the framework of one or more positions in the education system
• Demonstrated particularly good ability to develop teaching and students' academic results and otherwise assessed as particularly qualified for teaching and tasks related to teaching

Meritorious:

• Experience teaching in adapted upper secondary or primary school for students with severe or profound intellectual disabilities
• Experience teaching students within the autism spectrum and competence regarding low-arousal working methods
• Knowledge and experience working with alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) such as graphic AAC (GAAC), signs as support (TAKK), and early AAC

As a special teacher, you handle complex pedagogical issues and find solutions that support students' learning and development. You have a deep understanding of how people absorb knowledge and adapt teaching to individual needs and conditions. Furthermore, you are flexible, see opportunities in changes, and use new information to develop teaching and working methods. Through a relational and inclusive approach, you collaborate closely with students, colleagues, and other professionals to create good learning environments. You value differences and understand how background, culture, and group affiliation affect oneself and others. To succeed in the assignment as a lead teacher, we expect you to have an approach that keeps focus on goal achievement through follow-up and analysis. Your view on school development is based on educational research, and you teach from a scientific perspective.

About the Workplace

Valdemarsro Gymnasium is an adapted school that works to be a role model for how to create an accessible learning environment based on all students' different conditions. Here, space for learning and development is created daily in a warm and inclusive environment. The school offers education within individual and national programs with a wide range of subjects. As an employee, you will have engaged colleagues in one of Sweden's largest operations for adapted schools. We strive for our students to become independent individuals with the opportunity to express themselves, make active choices, and engage in meaningful activities.

Want to know more about us? Visit: Valdemarsro Gymnasium - Malmö City (https://malmo.se/valdemarsro-gymnasium)

Information about the Position

Employment type: Permanent employment
Extent: Full-time
Number of positions: 1
Start date: By agreement

Other

According to the Education Act, a criminal record extract from the police is required before employment within upper secondary school and adapted upper secondary school. You can order the extract via the police's website at Police (https://polisen.se/belastningsregistret?mtm_campaign=utdrag&mtm_kwd=post0623)

Please note that in Malmö City, we have removed the personal letter from the application process and replaced it with selection questions, this for a more inclusive recruitment process and an efficient candidate experience for you applying for a job with us. Your answers will be an important part of our selection work.

Malmö City strives for employees to represent the diversity that exists in our city. We therefore welcome applicants who can contribute to our ability to meet the needs of Malmö residents.