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Do you want to help create an inclusive and developmental learning environment for school students in our municipality? In Leksand Municipality, we invest in life – for our children, our employees, and our future. We are now looking for a teacher for grades 1-6 with special educational needs (SEN) qualifications who wants to contribute to an equitable and meaningful school where every child receives the right support to develop based on their unique prerequisites.

Ready to create a developmental learning environment in our schools?

Highlights of the job:

• Proximity and collaboration - the student in focus
• Teaching quality - with a surrounding environment that enriches
• Collegial learning on multiple levels
• Community and joy - development and challenges. Opportunity to influence and impact students

Your responsibilities

As a teacher in Leksand Municipality, you work pedagogically and socially based on the operations' goals and guidelines as well as current regulatory documents. A major focus for Leksand Municipality's school operations now and in the future is the development of students' reading and writing skills, which is integrated with the current curriculum that you are well acquainted with. You are responsible for the pedagogical content of the teaching and work to promote students' learning and development.

You will work as a special needs teacher at Siljansnäs School. The position also includes some assignments as a class teacher with a focus on specific subject teaching based on your qualifications. The responsibilities include collaboration with colleagues as well as communication with students, guardians, and other authorities. Together with your colleagues, you will participate in projects aimed at developing teaching and increasing students' goal achievement.

Your profile

• We are looking for you who are a certified primary school teacher with special educational needs qualifications
• Meritorious is previous work as a special needs teacher in primary school grades F-6 or equivalent, experience in school development assignments, experience in lead teacher assignments

As a person, you are flexible and accustomed to planning your work independently. You are solution-oriented and have a good ability to see situations from a holistic perspective.

You are also clear, confident, and creative, and have the ability to inspire our students. You enjoy collaborating in a team and share your experiences for collegial learning that contributes to development at the individual, group, and organizational levels. Together with your colleagues, you work to create a safe, structured, developmental, and stimulating learning environment for the students.

We place great importance on your personal profile in this recruitment process.

About the workplace

Siljansnäs School is a F-6 school with an after-school center, beautifully located in Siljansnäs, approx. 1.5 miles outside central Leksand, with proximity to a rich nature and cultural life. The school has three work teams - grades F-3 and grades 4-6 as well as the after-school center. Collaboration for pedagogical development is central, and the principal's area also includes Gärde, Tällberg, and Ullvi schools as collaboration partners to enable rich collegial learning. In addition, Leksand schools collaborate continuously on various targeted competence development initiatives. Leksand Municipality's primary schools work with lifelong learning in safe environments.

If you are curious to get to know our primary schools even better, you can do it here:

https://leksand.se/skola-och-forskola/grundskola/vara-grundskolor#h-Insjonsskola (https://leksand.se/skola-och-forskola/grundskola/vara-grundskolor#h-Insjonsskola)

We offer you

For us, it is important that all our employees find a balance between work and home, feel secure in their employment, and have an increased quality of life by working in the municipality. If we succeed with this, there are good prerequisites for also succeeding with our common task, which is:

We do what we should by taking joint responsibility for our democratic mission, using our resources wisely, and always keeping the focus on those we are there for.

We do it well and are proud of our work and the results we achieve, and we welcome engaged and courageous employees who want to develop and improve together with us.

We do it together by collaborating and learning from each other. Dialogue is important to us, and we find new solutions together with those we are there for, with trust, care, and respect.

We strive for a health-promoting work climate, job satisfaction, community, and personal development. Competence development is a given, and we encourage our employees to further develop through courses, education, and networking.

On our website, we have gathered information about what it is like to work with us. For more information, please see https://leksand.se/jobba-hos-oss (https://leksand.se/jobba-hos-oss)

For you as an applicant, we have the possibility to offer relocation services, see further http://www.rekryteringslots.se (http://www.rekryteringslots.se)

Your application

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process in Leksand Municipality and to enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally via the link. The application documents consist of a CV and a cover letter. Extracts from the criminal record register and teacher certification with current subject qualifications must be presented at a possible interview.

Identification to verify your identity needs to be presented at a possible interview. This is standard in all our recruitment processes.

The last application date is: June 21, 2026

Appointment will be made upon agreement.

We review CVs continuously, so it is good if you send in your application as soon as possible.

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