Vacant job

Description

We are looking for a school counselor at Tuggeliteskolan and Skåreskolan.

Tuggeliteskolan, grades F-3, with approximately 150 students, is located on Skåreberget near forests and beautiful nature. The school is characterized by a high level of satisfaction among both students and staff. Skåreskolan is located in Skåre center with about 220 students in grades 2-6. The school is characterized by skilled staff who always prioritize the best interests of the students. For us, safety and a conducive learning environment are important. We are proud to have a driven and competent staff who are at the forefront of school development. With us, you will have the opportunity to develop in your professional role, and we care about providing you with a good working environment.

If you are an engaged person who is passionate about the development and learning of young people, this could be the position for you. In our child and youth administration, the psychosocial profession is important.

You will be part of the student health team at the school, contributing your knowledge within the psychosocial perspective. As a school counselor, you will be involved in the student health's generally directed work to promote students' learning, development, and health, as well as working preventively to remove barriers to learning, development, and health. The student health team collaborates with the school's other staff to create the best conditions for all students to achieve the educational goals.

Tuggeliteskolan (https://karlstad.se/forskola-skola-och-utbildning/grundskola/grundskolor/tuggeliteskolan)

Responsibilities

In your role as a school counselor, your tasks will include:

• contributing knowledge about students' general psychosocial health and social situation in the student health work
• adding psychosocial competence as support in the pedagogical work together with teachers and in the overall planning of the school's activities
• providing knowledge about risk and protective factors for students' health, social situation, learning, and development
• having significant responsibility in the school's structure and organization regarding values and equal treatment
• providing guidance and consultation to the school's other staff
• contributing knowledge about the community's support systems
• collaborating with other authorities, for example in efforts related to parental support.
• conducting conversations, such as support, motivational, and crisis conversations, as well as investigative and advisory conversations with individual students and their families related to the school situation
• at the principal's request, investigating and assessing the social and psychosocial situation of individual students, among other things as a basis for decisions regarding special support and when establishing action programs.

Qualifications

We are looking for someone who is a social worker or has another academic background that the employer deems equivalent. To succeed in this role, you must have very good competence in psychosocial work, and as a person, you should be creative, curious, proactive, and able to collaborate easily with other professionals and stakeholders. Furthermore, you should be comfortable consulting and training your colleagues and sharing your knowledge. You enjoy working with students at the group level and driving projects. Naturally, you find it easy to build relationships, networks, and create processes. We consider it an advantage if you have experience working within or collaborating with social services.

We offer you friendly and competent colleagues who are passionate about school development and student health work. You will also receive guidance and access to professional networks for experience exchange and professional development.

We place great importance on personal suitability. Warm welcome with your application!

About Karlstad Municipality

The Child and Youth Administration is responsible for preschool and school for approximately 13,200 children and students and is the municipality's largest administration with over 2,400 employees. We have preschools, family day homes, open preschools, preschool classes, primary schools, adapted primary schools, after-school care, and cultural schools, and we also work with child and student health issues. We prepare children for the future.

Do you want to help create the future Karlstad? With us in the Karlstad municipality group, you can make a real difference. Here, every employee is an important part of the whole, and together we help realize our vision of "A better life in Solstaden." Come and grow with us!

Other Information

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process and simplify communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application via our recruitment system and not via email or paper format. We kindly decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this advertisement.

If you have protected personal data, you should not register your application documents in our recruitment system or send them via email. Instead, please contact the municipality's switchboard at 054-540 00 00 for further handling.