School Psychologist for Västerås City

With us, you will become an important part of a cross-professional team where we work together to create a health-promoting and preventive student health service. You will have a central role in contributing your psychological expertise to support schools in their efforts to promote student well-being and learning.

Your Responsibilities

As a school psychologist in Västerås city, you will belong to the Central Student Health Service, where we work cross-professionally with special educators and speech therapists, among others. You play an important role in supporting our municipal primary schools and adapted primary schools based on their needs.

You will work on behalf of the principals and be part of the schools' student health teams. By guiding and advising principals, working teams, and educators, you contribute to a preventive and health-promoting student health effort at the individual, group, and organizational levels.

The work also involves analyzing learning environments, conducting assessments, and performing cognitive evaluations. You will also participate in the supervision of special education groups and be an active part of the Central Student Health Service's joint development work.

Your Qualifications

We are looking for a licensed psychologist with experience in psychological assessments. Experience in supervision or working in a school environment is an advantage.

You are confident in your role, self-driven, and have an easy time collaborating in a team. The role offers great freedom under responsibility, and you enjoy planning your work, managing multiple parallel processes, and being at different schools, where you build relationships and switch between individual cases and broader perspectives.

You are flexible and motivated to work in a dynamic environment with many different tasks and levels. While you take your own initiatives and make decisions, you appreciate the strength of a collegial context and actively contribute to good collaboration.

We Offer

With us, you will be part of a strong and cross-professional central student health service where collegial learning is an obvious part of everyday life. You will have access to a large team of 16 psychologists for experience exchange and support, and we offer both method days and external supervision. We actively work with systematic quality assurance and invest in development initiatives that you, as a psychologist, are an important part of. Here, you will have the opportunity to work strategically and contribute to promoting student health in Västerås city.

Here you will be part of something bigger! With warmth and respect, we show initiative in both big and small matters. We live our values in our interactions with each other and those we serve. Every day, all year round, we ensure that Västerås runs smoothly. Together with your approximately 11,500 colleagues throughout the city, you will have Sweden's most important job.

Read more about opportunities, career paths, and our offerings here: https://www.vasteras.se/jobbochkarriär (https://www.vasteras.se/jobbochkarri%C3%A4r)

Additional Information

We conduct interviews continuously during the advertising period, so please submit your application directly!

Before you can be employed, you need to present an approved extract from the police criminal record.

In connection with the interview, you need to prove your citizenship. You can do this with a passport or a personal certificate along with an ID document. If you are not a citizen of Sweden, the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, you must show that you have a valid work permit or are exempt from the requirement to have a work permit. Employment can only occur after verification of the work permit, which is required according to the Aliens Ordinance.

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