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JENSEN Primary School Malmö, serving students in grades 6–9, is characterized by order, clarity, and a safe and pleasant school environment. Our dedicated teachers are driven by the desire to see every student succeed and reach their full potential.

We are now looking for an engaged, driven, and knowledgeable school counselor who, with a great heart for student well-being, wants to help create a safe, inclusive, and developmental school environment.

JENSEN's educational concept "Training for Reality" permeates all our activities. We are a workplace with a strong corporate culture where order, health profile, formal dress code, and study environment are central concepts. We offer a strong sense of team spirit with employees who thrive and take responsibility for the whole.

Education is the goal. We place great emphasis on developing students' skills in reading, writing, and mathematics. The teaching aims to provide students with good subject knowledge and stimulate their own thinking. For us, it is a given that the teacher is the leader in the classroom. We have high and positive expectations for students' study discipline and willingness to learn.

At JENSEN Primary School, we have a strong focus on quality. We are proud of our high results in areas such as employee satisfaction, manager ratings, and recommendations.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Conduct student conversations such as support, conflict, and crisis talks, as well as investigative talks with students in groups and individually.
• Act as support to other employees, for example, during coaching time, and participate in the safety team.
• Be responsible for the school's equal treatment plan.
• Actively contribute to the school's overall development and take responsibility for the operations meeting its goals.
• Work both preventively and promotively, with group-strengthening interventions in classes and with individual students through motivational conversations.

We are looking for you who want to develop in your professional role and who want to contribute to our students' success. In your role as a counselor at JENSEN, you will have the opportunity to, together with engaged colleagues and present managers, take overall responsibility for the school. At the same time, you have great freedom to use your competence to assist the pedagogical operations and utilize and develop students' resources.

Qualifications

You must have adequate education for social work as a counselor, a social work degree, or a psychology degree, and experience working with young people is meritorious.

In the role of a counselor at our school, we are looking for an employee who has good skills in building relationships with students and colleagues. You should be outgoing and able to create and maintain your relationships. You have a mission that requires you to collaborate well with both school management and teachers. You are receptive but also dare to express your views from your perspective as a counselor. You listen, communicate, and resolve conflicts in a constructive manner. You take great responsibility for your task and your work as a counselor. You structure your own approach and drive your processes forward.

In the role of a counselor, you must have well-founded and clear values and integrity. You are guided by ethics and values in critical situations in your work. The work requires good and wise judgment together with humility.

Employment Type

The position is a permanent full-time position starting August 7th or as agreed. For this position, we apply a six-month probationary period.

Your Application

You apply by registering your profile and attaching a cover letter and CV in our recruitment system. We only accept applications via the web; applications sent in other ways unfortunately cannot be processed. Selection is ongoing, so please submit your application as soon as possible.

The first step in our recruitment process is to complete two work psychological tests. This gives us an objective picture of your potential and you quick feedback. Test links are sent via email directly after application submission, and you will receive feedback on the tests directly after completion. If you have not received an email with a link to the tests, please check your spam folder as the email may end up there.

Within primary school, you must according to law (2000:873) show an extract from the criminal record. The extract is made via http://www.polisen.se/ with digital BankID. If you do not have BankID, you can order the form, do this as soon as possible as manual handling of the form takes a long time.

Contact Information

If you want to know more about the position and what it is like to work with us, please contact Principal Sebastian Nyrén Vanneryr, [email protected].

Read more at https://www.jenseneducation.se/ and see what it is like to work with us! You can also follow us on https://www.linkedin.com/company/jensen-education/ to get the latest updates on JENSEN Education.

We warmly welcome your application!

JENSEN Education is one of Sweden's largest private education companies, trusted to educate over 17,000 students in five different areas – preschool, primary school, upper secondary school, adult education, and university college. JENSEN was founded in 1996 by Håkan Jensen, the company's CEO and owner, and stands for long-term thinking, quality, and responsibility. The educational concept "Training for Reality and Education as a Goal" permeates all operations.