Counselor for Central Child and Student Health in Växjö

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About the position

1 position(s).

Responsibilities

Central Child and Student Health is part of the Education Administration's Resource Centre and brings together several professions within student health. The operation is led by a operations manager together with unit managers. We are now looking for a counselor who wants to contribute to health-promoting and preventive work and make a difference for the well-being of children and young people in primary school.

The counselor's task in the school is to develop and implement measures that strengthen students' well-being, together with the principal and other student health staff. As a counselor, you are centrally employed but based at one or several school units.

In this role, you will among other things work with health-promoting and preventive psychosocial work in the school to contribute to the student achieving knowledge goals and increased well-being, support conversations with students and multi-party meetings in networks regarding the student, as well as supervision and consultation to staff on psychosocial issues. Furthermore, you contribute to the school's values-based and equal treatment work, increased attendance, crisis management, work against drugs, discrimination, and bullying.

As a counselor, you work with students both individually and in groups. You handle relational issues regarding how adults in the school can meet and reach students so that they feel seen and included. The duties also include competence development within the school social area for staff. In the role, you also conduct school social mapping/investigation of individual students and social assessment prior to admission to adapted school.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who have a degree in social work. Preferably, you have worked with children and young people and have a particular interest in working with issues concerning children and young people in a pedagogical environment. It is meritorious to have worked with groups, supervision, and/or competence development. Experience of conducting various forms of social mapping and investigations is also meritorious.

You are good at collaborating and creating open and trusting relationships with everyone - regardless of background and conditions. You are flexible, self-assured, proactive, and able to independently plan and prioritize your work. It is important that you enjoy working in a team and have good collaboration skills.

A driver's license and access to a car are required.

Apply now

Do you want to work in a successful administration where your assignment is of great significance for our continued development? We warmly welcome your application! Selection and interviews may take place continuously during the application period, so please submit your application as soon as possible.

Employment type:

Permanent position.

Duration:

Permanent.

The employees of Växjö Municipality should reflect the diversity that exists in the municipality. We welcome applicants regardless of age, gender, or ethnicity.

As a permanent employee, you will usually be assigned to wartime duties in our organization.

There may be ongoing interviews, so please send your application as soon as possible.

Applications are made exclusively via Offentliga Jobb's recruitment tool (www.offentligajobb.se (https://www.offentligajobb.se)).

Bring educational certificates and any professional licenses to the interview. To be considered for employment, you need to show two extracts from the criminal record register before you are hired. Orders for extracts from the criminal record register can be made at polisen.se (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/) and you should use both the one called Work in school or preschool (442.5) and Control of own information in the criminal record register (442.3).

For internal candidates, it may be relevant with another start date. For more information, see Decision regarding the time of change of unit when recruiting an internal candidate within the Education Administration on the intranet.

To staffing and recruitment agencies or to you who are a salesperson: We kindly but firmly decline direct contact with staffing and recruitment agencies as well as sellers of further advertisements.