Special Teacher with a Focus on Intellectual Disabilities

Kramfors Municipality is the natural hub of the High Coast, shaped over millennia. Here, people, places, and environments can grow according to their own conditions.

Together, we create welfare and a functioning society that is equal and fair for all who live and stay in the municipality. We proudly say that we have Sweden's most important job! This is a good starting point for a workday with us to feel meaningful.

Kramfors School is centrally located in Kramfors, close to both bus and train stations. The school is a unit for primary school grades 4–6 with about 300 students. Within the unit, there is also an adapted primary school for grades 1–9 and an after-school program.

Everything we do should be permeated by safety, engagement, and faith in the future. In our work with students, we start from health-promoting factors and the students' strengths. We also work from the premise that good relationships between students and adults are an important foundation for learning and development.

Collaboration and shared responsibility are important foundations in our operations, where we create conditions for both student development and a good working environment for all through good communication, cooperation, and collaboration. We see that movement, breaks, and social contexts are important parts of students' development, both academically and socially. A safe school environment with security, comfort, and study peace is created through clear structures, good communication, and close collaboration between all staff and guardians.

We are now looking for a special teacher with a focus on intellectual disabilities.

JOB DESCRIPTION

As a special teacher focusing on intellectual disabilities, you will work to create accessible, structured, and safe learning environments where students are given the opportunity to develop academically, socially, and personally. The assignment includes working according to the school's governing documents, curriculum, and national goals, where teaching is designed to promote students' academic development, safety, and study peace.

You will collaborate closely with other teachers, student resources, student health, guardians, and external actors. As a special teacher, you will also be responsible for leading and coordinating the work of student resources around the students. This means planning and structuring the pedagogical work in the student group and contributing to clear working methods and pedagogical strategies. You will participate in the school's systematic quality work and contribute to the development of teaching and support measures.

Teaching is designed with the support of clarifying pedagogy, alternative and augmentative communication (AAC), and a low-arousal and relational approach. Teaching can occur in class, in smaller groups, or individually.

Our Platform for Governance and Leadership guides us in our daily work and contributes to a uniform quality across the entire school unit. The platform clarifies our shared processes, roles, and responsibilities and is an important foundation in our work. The systematic quality work is a central part of the operations and is continuously used to develop teaching, organization, and learning environments with the goal of increasing students' goal fulfillment.

Placement, grades, classes, and subjects may vary throughout the year and between different school years based on the needs of the operations. The position includes mentorship for students.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone who is a licensed teacher with a special education degree or equivalent competence. A special education degree is highly meritorious and may be required in the long term.

• Documented good collaboration skills and a strong sense of responsibility.
• Very good ability to create trusting relationships with students, colleagues, and guardians.
• Ability to adapt teaching and responses according to students' daily conditions and needs.
• A safe, structured, and professional demeanor in various student situations.
• A low-arousal approach and focus on contributing to calm and stability.
• Very good leadership qualities and ability to organize and prioritize.
• Ability to lead staff in daily work around students.
• Very good ability to express yourself in Swedish, both orally and in writing.

Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability, and a comprehensive assessment of education, experience, and personal qualities will be made.

OTHER

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

Please indicate the reference number and salary expectations in your application. References will be provided upon request, and for certain positions in the municipality's operations, a criminal record extract is required. In our municipality, several positions are placed in a security class, so a security review may occur.

The Education Act requires that all employees present an extract from the criminal record. You can order an extract for work in schools or preschools via www.polisen.se

We have made our choice of recruitment method and therefore kindly decline contact with salespeople of recruitment services.

Warm welcome with your application for one of Sweden's most important jobs!

Here you can read more about moving to and living in Kramfors Municipality: Moving to Kramfors (https://www.kramfors.se/bygga-bo--miljo/flytta-till-kramfors.html)