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Do you want to help create the best conditions for equal education? At the Swedish National Agency for Special Needs Education and Schools (SPSM), we work to ensure that all children, students, and adult learners with disabilities achieve their educational goals. We operate our own special schools in various locations across Sweden. We also provide support to preschools and schools nationwide to collaboratively create learning environments that are developing and accessible. Additionally, we distribute state grants and develop teaching materials. Together, we remove barriers!

We hope that you, as an applicant, with your background and skills, can contribute to increasing our diversity.

We are committed to making everyone's equal value a reality. Together, we use collaboration and expertise to solve tasks. Developing leadership and increasing diversity are some of the items currently on our agenda. Together, we contribute to sustainability in society economically, socially, and environmentally. You can read more about what we offer at www.spsm.se/ledigajobb (http://www.spsm.se/ledigajobb)

We are now looking for new employees for the Special Educational Counseling Department. Through our special educational counseling, we provide professionals and organizations with support in developing an equal, accessible, and health-promoting education for children and students with disabilities. The support we provide should be preventive and promoting to achieve long-term and sustainable results. The special educational support should facilitate preschools, schools, and authorities in providing an equal education according to the requirements of the Education Act across all school forms.

The Counseling Department is a nationally distributed department with approximately 140 counselors, divided into 9 units with offices from Luleå in the north to Malmö in the south. The units are led by unit managers, and we are now looking for 3 counselors for Counseling Unit 8, based at our office in Malmö.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

The role of a counselor is a varied and stimulating assignment where you have great opportunities to plan your own work situation. Our special educational support is aimed at teaching, principal, and authority levels, and we are now looking for someone with education and experience in the field who wants to further develop at a state level. Your main tasks will be in the field of counseling, where you provide support and answer special educational questions that come from professionals and authorities within the country's education system. The work is primarily performed digitally but also involves some physical meetings. Travel may occur in the position. In addition to special educational counseling, the agency offers, within the framework of SPSM's continuing education, capacity-building initiatives. As a counselor, you will also be responsible for various capacity-building initiatives in the form of courses, webinars, and study packages based on scientific principles. You may also have the opportunity to represent the agency in substantive issues and collaborate with external actors and interest organizations to develop and create an equal education for students within the agency's target groups. You will have access to a wide network of various competencies within the special educational field, and in some assignments and tasks, you will work closely with colleagues from other units and different parts of the country.

SPSM and the Counseling Department are engaged in a continuous improvement process, where we collectively develop our working methods and our offerings to achieve more accessible and equal support.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone who has:

• Special Education Degree or Special Teacher Degree.
• Experience working as a special educator or special teacher within the education system, including supervisory tasks.
• Experience in conducting practice-oriented consultative work with professionals related to creating accessible and health-promoting education.
• Experience working with school development at a strategic authority level.
• Good language skills in Swedish, both spoken and written.
• Good IT skills.

It is an advantage if you have:

• Further education after the special education degree within the educational sciences field.
• Experience in leadership with a process-oriented approach.
• Experience working with child and student health at a strategic authority level.
• Experience working with complex special educational issues.
• Experience leading improvement work and/or collegial learning within the special educational field.
• Specialization in pedagogical consequences within any of these disability areas:
• Reading and writing difficulties.
• Language impairment.
• Neuropsychiatric disabilities.
• Knowledge of alternative communication methods.
• Experience working in digital environments.

As a person, you have a strong sense of responsibility and good initiative. You enjoy taking on new tasks and can easily adapt to current conditions and needs.

You are quality-conscious and analytical and have the ability to handle complex issues at various levels within the organization. You have a salutogenic approach and prefer to work preventively and promoting. You have a structured working method and a good ability to drive work forward both independently and collaboratively.

The work requires strong collaboration skills. Therefore, you are unpretentious and confident in communicating and building good relationships. You have a good ability to work dialogically in a mutually discovering manner. You are attentive and can convey information constructively in advisory situations. In the selection process, we place great importance on personal qualities.

In addition to this, we also consider your last five years of work experience and competency development that we assess as relevant for the position.

OTHER

A six-month probationary period applies. A criminal record extract must be presented before employment. In the event of a societal crisis, you may be directed to work between the agency's areas of operation based on your placement. Before the recruitment process, we have made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing. In this recruitment, we are collaborating with JeffersonWells, Manpower Group. We kindly decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance this time.