Join our dedicated staff at Santosskolan!

In the primary school administration, we have a safe and trusting culture. We care about our students and each other. We exist for the students, we collaborate with guardians and each other, and we are open to new thoughts and ideas. Here we create good conditions for pedagogical development.

We are now looking for someone with a strong commitment to develop a modern operation where we focus on:

• increasing the quality of teaching to enhance students' learning.
• creating clearer responsibilities, governance, and leadership to improve students' academic results.
• increasing equity among schools so that all students have access to high-quality teaching and compensating for their different conditions.

The Gothenburg primary school administration is one of the largest school administrations in Sweden. We are responsible for the city's municipal schools from preschool class to grade nine, adapted primary school, cultural school, and after-school centers. The administration has 138 municipal primary schools where nearly 47,000 students attend school every day. The entire administration has about 9,700 employees who collectively work to develop and take care of the operations - together we pave the way for the school of the future.

Feel free to follow our journey on LinkedIn: Gothenburg Primary School Administration (https://www.linkedin.com/company/goteborgs-grundskoleforvaltning)

JOB DESCRIPTION

Santosskolan is located at Campus Lindholmen and started at the beginning of the school year in autumn 2015. The school accommodates just over 420 students in grades 7-9 and about 50 staff members. Since autumn 2021, we are part of the Hisingen 8 school area, together with Herrgårdsskolan F-6.

We now need to strengthen our wonderful staff group with a special education teacher for an integrated SU2 group. It is a mixed-age special education group for grades 7-9, with a qualified teacher for each subject, a coordinator, two student assistants, and a resource teacher who is now further strengthening the resources with a special education teacher for Swedish. There are 15 students in the group.

The job responsibilities primarily consist of organizing and planning the teaching in the group together with the other staff, teaching students, conducting assessments as needed, following up on action programs, and collaborating with external actors such as child and adolescent psychiatry, habilitation, and social services.

You have experience and knowledge of students with autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. You are skilled at creating inclusive learning environments and building trusting relationships with students while maintaining good contact with their homes. You adapt the leadership and stimulation of teaching according to the students' needs and strengths. You are flexible and have the ability to adjust your approach and communication with students based on their functional variations and can help students interpret different situations and social contexts.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for a licensed primary school teacher and special education teacher with experience working with special education groups and experience working with students with neurodevelopmental disorders such as ADHD and autism.

To thrive in this role, you should gain energy from contributing to others' learning and create conditions for learning to take place. As a person, you are calm and stable and have the ability to create a safe environment for all children. You have good collaborative skills and are driven to work with other people. You easily build good relationships with children, colleagues, and guardians, and you listen, communicate, and resolve conflicts constructively. Your creativity inspires others and creates engagement. You are eager to contribute ideas and new ways of thinking to continually drive the operation forward. You act based on vision, goals, and policy and contribute to the school's learning and innovative climate. You are quality-conscious and come up with your own suggestions on how we can contribute to development.

Does this description fit you? We warmly welcome your application!

OTHER

As an employee in our administration, you will be offered, among other things, wellness grants, bicycle benefits, and employee support.

According to the Education Act, a criminal record extract must be presented by individuals before they are employed in preschool activities, schools, and school-age childcare. You can order this from the Police's website.

For this recruitment, we have decided on recruitment channels and therefore kindly decline any further offers of competence mediation, advertising, and recruitment assistance.

We only accept applications via our recruitment system in accordance with GDPR.