Vacant job

Description

Do you want to make a difference for our youngest students and help more of them reach their goals? We are looking for a dedicated special teacher for Kronopark School who wants to be involved in developing our work with early interventions and improving students' achievement in Swedish as a second language and Swedish – with a focus on reading and writing skills.

Kronopark School (https://karlstad.se/forskola-skola-och-utbildning/grundskola/grundskolor/kronoparksskolan) is a primary school. Here, students from preschool class to grade 3 attend. The school has about 330 students and has received the award School for Sustainable Development from the Swedish National Agency for Education.

Responsibilities

Your role includes identifying, analyzing, and following up on students' needs for special support, where you use your pedagogical insight and problem-solving analytical skills to design effective interventions at the individual, group, and organizational levels. You work proactively and preventively, with a quality-conscious and systematic approach, based on research and proven experience.

Teaching occurs both individually and in smaller groups, where your relationship-building approach contributes to security, motivation, and progression among students. You follow students' development from preschool class onwards and ensure that the right support is provided at the right time, which requires a holistic view, careful follow-up, and good collaboration.

An important part of the role is to contribute to clear and secure transitions between stages, where you collaborate with teaching staff and student health services to create continuity in students' learning. Through guidance and collegial learning, you support educators in developing their teaching and strengthen the school's overall competence.

You are a collaborative and development-driven special teacher who sees opportunities, takes initiative, and actively contributes to the school's long-term quality and development work.

Qualifications

We are looking for someone who is a licensed teacher with a special education degree, focusing on the early years of primary school (F–3), preferably with an emphasis on reading and writing development.

It is an advantage if you have experience with special educational interventions in the early years of primary school, have worked with evidence-based methods for reading and writing development, and have experience leading pedagogical development work and implementing capacity-building initiatives. Experience working with transitions between preschool class and grade 1, focusing on continuity and progression, is also an advantage, as well as a particularly strong ability to create and maintain trusting relationships with students, guardians, and colleagues.

To succeed in this role, you have a good knowledge of reading and writing development and an understanding of the importance of early, preventive, and promoting interventions. You work systematically with mapping, analysis, and follow-up of students' progression and use the results to plan and adapt pedagogical interventions in a quality-conscious manner. You have pedagogical insight and problem-solving analytical skills, which enable you to identify needs at an early stage and ensure the right support at the right time.

Furthermore, you have digital competence and experience using digital tools in teaching, mapping, and documentation. You have good collaboration skills and communicative competence that allow you to professionally and sensitively guide and support colleagues. Your relationship-building and professional approach contribute to secure collaborations and good relationships throughout the school's operations.

We place great importance on personal suitability and are looking for someone who is development-oriented, quality-conscious, and collaborative, with a clear focus on students.

About Karlstad Municipality

The Children and Youth Administration is responsible for preschool and school for about 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 be part of creating the future of 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 the City of the Sun." Come and grow with us!

Additional 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 information, you should not register your application documents in our recruitment system and should not send them via email. Instead, please contact the municipality's switchboard at 054-540 00 00 for further handling.