Special Teacher at Fågelskolan

Are you an engaged and experienced special teacher who wants to help start a new resource school? Take the chance and apply for the position of special teacher at Fågelskolan!

About the Role and Your Responsibilities

As a special teacher, you will:

• Plan, implement, and follow up on teaching tailored for students with intellectual disabilities (ID).
• Be involved in building the school’s pedagogical structure, routines, and learning environment.
• Work with assessments, pedagogical investigations, and action plans.
• Guide and collaborate with other staff in the work team.
• Have close cooperation with student health services, guardians, and external stakeholders.

You create opportunities for each student to develop and be motivated through a relational approach, clarifying pedagogy, and alternative and augmentative communication.

As a special teacher in a class, you are part of a team, but also the pedagogical leader who distributes the work and guides the teaching assistants you collaborate with. You work preventively to remove barriers in various learning environments and to develop work related to support measures and adjustments for our students. When necessary, you provide support for students in personal care such as toilet visits and during meals.

You are part of a larger team with experienced teachers who together develop our operations. Your assignment includes collaborating with child and youth habilitation and other external stakeholders.

We Are Looking for You

We are now looking for an engaged and experienced special teacher with a focus on ID who wants to help start a small resource school for students with ID in the age of 6.

We are looking for someone who:

• Is a licensed teacher with a special education degree focused on ID.
• Has experience working with students with intellectual disabilities, preferably in the early school years.
• Has good knowledge of adjustments, alternative and augmentative communication (AAC).
• Is confident, structured, and has a low-arousal approach.
• Enjoys working in a small setting and wants to help develop new initiatives.

Personal Qualities

You are a person who:

• Sees opportunities and solutions.
• Is flexible, proactive, and collaborative.
• Has a strong commitment to students’ development and well-being.
• Wants to contribute to building a school where every student succeeds based on their conditions.

We expect you to view each student from a holistic perspective and have a positive view of students. You are engaged in your work and operate according to the school’s core values. You have good collaborative skills and create positive relationships with students, guardians, colleagues, and external stakeholders.

In this recruitment, we have chosen to replace the personal letter with selection questions. Your answers will be an important part of our selection process.

Warm welcome to submit your application!

We Offer You

We offer:

• An opportunity to help start and shape a new resource school.
• A small student group with good conditions for relationship-building work.
• Close collaboration in an engaged team.
• A meaningful and developing position where your skills truly make a difference.

As an employee with us, you will be offered a range of benefits focusing on balance, security, and health. Lund Municipality is a large organization with many exciting operations and opportunities for employee development. As an employee, you will also have access to our benefits portal where you can easily view and manage your benefits.

Read more about our benefits here (https://lund.se/arbete-och-lediga-jobb/sa-ar-det-att-arbeta-med-oss/det-har-ger-vi-dig-som-medarbetare).

About the Workplace

Fågelskolan, located in the western parts of Lund, is a K-9 school with regular and adapted primary education, with a total of about 450 students. The adapted primary school is divided into age-mixed classes and is locally integrated with the rest of the school. Fågelskolan is a school characterized by diversity, which we who work here see as a strength and an asset.

In the child and school administration, we work to create equity and good conditions for all children and students in our preschools, primary schools, and adapted primary schools to reach their goals. Together, we work for a unified and clear governance of preschool and school in a modern and efficient organization, with the goal of enabling world-class education. Our ambitions are high, and we always strive to create good conditions for development and ensure high quality in our operations.

To work with children or students in preschool and school, you need to be able to present an acceptable extract from the criminal record.

Read more about the criminal record here (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/skola-eller-forskola/).

Here you have space to grow. Within Lund Municipality, we put knowledge at the center and create opportunities to develop in the workplace. We offer an inclusive work environment and the chance to influence and make a difference. Do you want to be one of us?