Employer: Degerfors Municipality
Degerfors is an industrial municipality with approximately 9,000 inhabitants. The municipality is located in the beautiful border region between Värmland and Närke, where forest landscapes meet plains. Degerfors Municipality employs around 750 staff members distributed across four departments. Here, there is close proximity between operations, citizens, and decision-makers. Read more at www.degerfors.se (https://www.degerfors.se)
Are you a licensed psychologist passionate about school development?
Are you a licensed psychologist who is passionate about school development and wants to take the step into cross-departmental strategic leadership?
At Degerfors Municipality, you will receive a unique combined role where you lead our newly established central student health services while working closely with operations as our school psychologist.
In Degerfors, we want all children and young people to have equal opportunities for a successful school career. In this work, we see our student health services as a vital function. Starting in the autumn term, we will organize the medical, psychosocial, and psychological interventions of student health into a central organization. This means we are looking for a person who will work 50% as Head of Student Health and 50% as the municipality's school psychologist.
RESPONSIBILITIES
In the role of Head of Student Health, you have overall responsibility for the municipality's cohesive student health services. This includes, among other things, serving as the operational manager for EMI (Student Health Medical Intervention) and EPI (Student Health Psychological Intervention). You drive the preventive and health-promoting work at a strategic level and are a central actor in the systematic quality work of student health. As a manager, you will lead our counselors and school nurses. Since this is a new position, there are good opportunities to help shape the content of the role. You will report directly to the School Principal and be part of the Culture and Education Department's management team.
As a School Psychologist, you will work at the organizational, group, and individual levels. The work involves being part of the schools' interdisciplinary student health teams and working primarily with promoting and preventive measures that contribute to creating environments that foster students' learning, development, and health. The school psychologist's role is to contribute psychological competence as support in the pedagogical work. The school psychologist's assignment also includes conducting psychological assessments and evaluations, as well as providing supervision and consultation to central student health staff and the school's pedagogues, special educators, and principals.
The school psychologist should contribute knowledge regarding protective and risk factors for students' health, learning, and development, for example, through training on mental health.
As we are a small organization, other tasks may also occur, creating variety. The content and conditions of the assignment may change over time in dialogue with the immediate supervisor.
QUALIFICATIONS
As a person, you have an interest and ability to create an overview and strategies to achieve set goals. You are a humble team player who values and contributes to creating good relationships and a collaborative climate. You have a good ability to lead as well as to make and communicate decisions. You have a flexible working style and are solution-focused, seeing opportunities even in challenging and difficult situations. As a person, you also need to be structured as you will need to plan and prioritize effectively to ensure that goals and deadlines are met.
Qualifications
- Licensed psychologist
- Good understanding of the school's mission and the role of student health
- Experience in leadership and interdisciplinary collaboration
- Experience in conducting psychological assessments with children and young people
- Experience in education and supervision
- Driver's license
Merits
- Experience working as a school psychologist and good knowledge of legislation concerning school psychological work
- Experience in operational and strategic quality and student health work
- Previous experience as a manager in the public sector
Great weight is placed on personal suitability.
OTHER INFORMATION
To work with children in schools, you are required to submit an extract from the criminal register prior to employment. You can request this extract yourself from the police digitally via the link https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/ (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/) or find a form at www.polisen.se (https://www.polisen.se)
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