Uddevalla – a place for life

Welcome to become a part of our growing municipality - and to work together with us to provide our residents with even better service.

We offer an attractive workplace that provides you with great opportunities to develop in your professional role. Our goal is for everyone to thrive and grow - throughout their entire working life. We also want to develop as an employer and actively work to make the best use of your knowledge and engagement. We appreciate and encourage co-creation from everyone.

Uddevalla municipality is a beautiful place by the sea in the heart of Bohuslän. We believe in an open and positive interaction between the municipality, education, business, and culture.

We hope you will thrive with us!

About the workplace

Norgårdenskolan is Uddevalla municipality's largest 7-9 school with just over 500 students in the academic year 25/26.

We have a very high collective experience of school leadership, and the principals form a strategic leadership team with two special educators as the foundation. We have started the academic year 25/26 strengthened by the graduating students' merit value of 233 points and 90.4% eligibility, but we are also humble in taking on new challenges for remaining and incoming students. The school works according to the Vision and Direction 2028 and has four strategic areas. With the support of the entire staff group and a newly recruited deputy principal, we are now working to define and sharpen the work organization to enhance the conditions for development.

The school has a collective and cross-professional competence. We have two employees in the roles of special educator, social educator, and career counselor, as well as, of course, a school nurse and school counselor. We have, as confirmed in evaluations, a good collaboration between the student health team and working groups.

The school has organized a special teaching group (SU Blue) for students in need of individually adapted learning environments and flexible planning during the academic year 25/26.

In the school area, an adapted primary school is also organized, which has its own principal and school management. We collaborate regarding the school's collective and accessible learning environment and in operational matters but do not have a joint school management due to separate responsibilities.

Job Responsibilities

Based on your education, qualifications, and experience, job responsibilities will be clarified in a process and dialogue - linked to the school's collective needs.

For us, it is important that you want to be a co-creator of assignments and job responsibilities as well as structures. You already know how the special educator role looks as a foundation. How we work with special educational support and management - we know, and we are happy to share this in a meeting. Doesn’t that sound exciting?

What we are looking for

We are looking for someone who is self-driven, empathetic, and sees the importance of collaboration. You are structured and view differences as something positive. You are goal- and result-oriented and have specialist knowledge through acquired education and proven experience. To succeed in the role, it is important that you are relationship-oriented and fundamentally have a good sense of humor. If you are also charismatic and have good rhetorical skills, you are likely to succeed!

Qualifications

Requirements to be employed:

• Educated special educator
• Teaching qualifications and teaching license for upper secondary school

Desirable qualifications for selection:

• Previous work in leadership positions in primary school, preferably 7-9 (team leader, subject team leader, lead teacher, management resource/team leader, etc.)
• Knowledge of relevant operational systems

Other

If you are called for an interview, you will conduct a work sample during the interview (as mentioned above) consisting of two parts:

• Part one where you give a presentation and develop your thoughts on special education and the organization of special support, as well as the leadership and self-leadership you assess as successful in this.
• Part two where you talk about a really good result you have been responsible for or involved in – why did it turn out that way and what were the success factors in this process.

Welcome with your application!