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Become a part of Borås City!

Welcome to work in the Educational City of Borås, where every day is meaningful. In addition to meaningful work and professional colleagues, Borås City offers a range of benefits and attractive working conditions to ensure your well-being. Professional, engaged, and learning are key words for Borås City’s operations, both in meeting the citizens of Borås and in relationships with colleagues.

Almåsgymnasiet offers education where creativity and entrepreneurship shape students' futures. The school's climate is characterized by good collaboration between different professions, all of which place the student's learning and success at the center.

The school has a highly competent and professional student health team, which, together with teachers and other staff, works to provide students with the best conditions for learning and development. Our conviction is that all students want and can achieve their goals.

The school's student health team consists of two counselors, two school nurses, two special educators, and two study and career counselors. As an extended arm of student health, social pedagogues and resource pedagogues are also included in the school's organization, with a focus on the best interests of the students.

You can find more about the school on Almåsgymnasiet's website (https://www.boras.se/utbildningochforskola/gymnasieskola/gymnasieskolor/almasgymnasiet.4.46966c1e1580c421fba97295.html).

As a special educator, you play an important role in the school's student health. We believe in early interventions, shared responsibility, and a health-promoting approach. Together with your special educator colleague and other professionals, you form the school's student health team and work closely with students, teachers, and school management. The goal is for all students to receive support and stimulation to develop and achieve the educational goals based on their own conditions. The work is varied, characterized by frequent student contacts, and involves many points of contact with students, staff, school management, and in some cases, guardians.

You will work with the following areas:

• Health-promoting and preventive work for students' development, which includes support, guidance, and stimulation of individual students, classes, or groups.
• Pedagogical guidance at the individual, group, and organizational level, where you assist with advice and support, as well as guide staff.
• Establishing special pedagogical investigations and assessments; as well as establishing, following up, and evaluating action programs.
• Operational development, which includes developing methods and approaches, as well as participating in planning and organizational issues.
• Collaboration in the form of cross-professional cooperation within student health, with external actors, as well as with educators and other staff at the school.

Union representatives can be reached via Borås City's switchboard, phone 033-35 70 00.

Read more about Borås City's employee benefits (https://www.boras.se/arbete/jobbaiborasstad/jobbaiborasstad/varterbjudande/ersattningochformaner/formaner.4.4a6bd4da18b853ac78a51f71.html).

The conviction of the high school and adult education committee is that all students want and can learn.

Read more in the administration's development plan Educational City of Borås (https://www.boras.se/kommunochpolitik/styrandedokument/styrdokument/styrdokument/bildningsstadenboras.5.2c696da0186d27a650849c86.html).

We value the qualities that a balanced age and gender distribution, as well as ethnic and cultural diversity, bring to the organization.

Selection and interviews will be conducted continuously.

You who are applying have a background as a teacher and hold a special education degree. Independence and collaboration should be combined in teamwork. Therefore, it is important that you have a holistic view of the operation and a good ability to collaborate and work in a team.

It is crucial that you are engaged in your work and have a positive attitude towards the students. You contribute to creating good learning environments and conditions for students' learning. You also have a good understanding of applicable governing documents, students' rights to special support, and the formulation of action programs. Since communication and documentation constitute a significant part of the position, you must have good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written.

In your work, you are structured and can prioritize and follow through on what you undertake.

Great importance will be placed on your personal qualities such as social competence, flexibility, responsiveness, and ability to collaborate.

Experience in special educational work with students at the high school level is an advantage.

You can submit your application with attached documents via our application function, which you can access by clicking "Apply for the job" below.