Welcome to the land of islands and lakes!

Here in Oskarshamn, you can experience the tranquility of warmth and security and find your energy in the closeness and community. We are proud to be the country's fourth richest municipality in terms of islands, with over 6,000 islands in our archipelago and in our 500 lakes. Whether you are seeking relaxation or adventure, Oskarshamn has something to offer. With the sea as a backdrop and the scent of pine around the corner, it is easy to fall in love and settle down.

In Oskarshamn, you can grow and develop. With large employers in industry and technology, driven entrepreneurs, and small business owners, Oskarshamn offers a thriving business community and exciting opportunities. The proximity between countryside, city, sea, and forest provides all the conditions to live safely and comfortably, with time to pursue passions and dreams. Welcome to drop anchor in the municipality of Oskarshamn.

Ekängen Preschool is being built on the western side of Döderhultsdalen and is planned to be completed in August 2026. Would you like to be part of working in a preschool where nature is an important arena for discovery? Look here! Will be guiding principles for curiously following nature in the valley together with the children. It is said that the oak's life cycle is 900 years, and near the preschool, you can also see Fredriksberg Manor whispering about another bygone era. Here, history and the future meet in an ecological environment.

Outdoor pedagogy will be central as nature will inspire both outdoor and indoor learning and teaching.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Together with your colleagues in the work team, you will drive the education forward. You will create educational, creative, and developing environments for all children. You will work based on current governing documents and plan, implement, evaluate, and develop education together with the work team.

You will use pedagogical documentation as a natural tool and be involved in ensuring that digital tools and project-based working methods become part of the teaching. In your profession as a preschool teacher in Oskarshamn Municipality, you will lead, plan, document, and evaluate the activities together with others in the work team based on the curriculum. In the role of preschool teacher, you will maintain and develop good relationships with both children, guardians, colleagues, and other stakeholders. You and your colleagues contribute to ensuring that our children have a fun, safe, and educational time in preschool.

In interaction with the world around us, we learn from each other. All children should feel satisfaction from making progress, overcoming difficulties, and feeling that they are an asset to the group. It is your task to start from the child's interest while consciously directing the child's learning towards the goals of the education.

The children have the opportunity to deepen and broaden their thinking and exploration of phenomena and materials together with other children and adults. This happens as we develop a project-based approach as a form of teaching, a teaching that is playful and interdisciplinary.

This is an opportunity to be part of starting up and developing Ekängen Preschool together with other educators.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone with a preschool teacher degree and associated certification. In addition to the academic requirements, we also see your personal qualities as very important; we want you to:

• have the ability to collaborate, inspire, and spread joy at work
• have a humble approach where a good view of children and a good attitude is given, "everyone can and wants"
• see children's different needs and create creative learning environments based on this
• lead and drive daily work in a structured, quality-conscious, and flexible manner
• enjoy working in a fast-paced environment
• communicate well in Swedish, both spoken and written

*see nature as an asset and use it in your teaching both outdoors and indoors.

Welcome to submit your application today as we apply ongoing recruitment.

OTHER

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to apply via the application link and not via email or paper format.

To be considered for employment, you need to be able to present the following extract from the criminal record: For work within schools or preschools. You can find this at polisen.se (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/skola-eller-forskola/). If you are interested in the position, please apply for the extract now.

We have a smoke-free working time.

We offer a flexible wellness agreement.

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

Please read more at oskarshamn.com (https://oskarshamn.com/)

Feel free to check out our beautiful film about our city: YouTube (https://youtu.be/_T9Cy0C-H_o)