School Psychologist for Karlskoga Municipality

To develop or to be developed. That is not the question. With us, it is obvious that you can do both: grow in your professional role and at the same time help develop Karlskoga together with your colleagues.

In the picturesque Karlskoga, exciting things are happening right now. In our city, you are always close to both beautiful nature and the high-tech industry. We offer you a welcoming workplace where people and innovations can thrive.

We who work in the psychology group within the central student health are a small but strong team. We have close access to decision-making and report directly to the municipality's Head of Student Health. Within the team, we support and complement each other so that together we cover a large area of expertise. We have an open climate with high ceilings where all questions are welcome. We value each other and have fun at work. We are located in centrally located premises close to the travel center in Karlskoga. There you will also find the school management group and other functions within the administration, which promotes close collaboration.

Karlskoga's school administration is in an exciting period with ongoing development work. The aim is to strengthen how student health becomes an important part of the systematic quality work. In this work, you as a school psychologist will play a crucial role in how we can work both at an overarching level and at the unit level.

For us, it is important to maintain a balance between work and everyday life. We believe in freedom under responsibility, where you have the opportunity to plan your work and to some extent work from home.

Welcome to a meaningful job where you can truly make a difference!

Karlskoga Municipality works with competence-based recruitment aimed at recognizing each person's competence and thus counteracting discrimination.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

The position means that you are part of a team of school psychologists. You participate in the promotional and preventive work to support students' development towards educational goals. You focus on the best interests of the students, and your work also includes conveying psychological knowledge to guardians and school staff.

The job responsibilities, in addition to the above, include:

• participating and supporting schools in the systematic student health work
• working consultatively with educators and other professionals within the school
• supervising staff
• conducting individual assessments as needed regarding intellectual disabilities
• contributing understanding and knowledge about how psychological factors interact with the environment to affect students' ability to learn and thrive in school.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone with a degree in psychology.

You are structured and have the ability to independently plan and organize your work to achieve desired results within given timeframes. You value and contribute to good collaboration by having an open, accommodating, and unpretentious approach where the focus is on finding solutions to achieve the common goal. Your analytical ability allows you to solve problems without losing sight of long-term strategies and to see logic and connections in complex information or environments. You easily create and maintain good relationships with students, guardians, and colleagues.

To manage the administrative systems that support your work, you are expected to have good IT skills and be able to easily engage with digital systems. Furthermore, you master the Swedish language in such a way that you can communicate with students, colleagues, and guardians and document what the organization requires in writing.

It is an advantage if you have:

• psychologist license
• driver's license (B)
• competence/experience in conducting assessments with WISC, WAIS, and CAS as well as SON-R 6-40 and SON-R 2-8
• experience in assessment work and supervision/training for staff
• experience working with digital journal systems such as PMO and ProReNata
• experience in local and/or central student health work

Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability.

OTHER

We apply continuous selection and interviews in this recruitment.

Probationary employment may occur.

Background check
To work in preschool, school, and youth and leisure activities, you must, according to the law on background checks, submit a record extract from the police's criminal record. You must request the extract from the National Police Board using the form "Extract from the Criminal Record" in the form archive on the police's website.

If you have protected personal information, do not register your application documents in our recruitment system. Instead, contact PA support (HR department) at tel: 0586-610 55 for further handling.

Karlskoga Municipality is part of the Finnish administrative area and thus has a responsibility to uphold the status of the Finnish language. This means that we should offer preschool activities and elderly care in Finnish.

We kindly decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this advertisement.