Vacant job

Special Educator for Vittarydskolan, Ljungby

In Ljungby Municipality, we are shaping the future together towards a population of 35,000. Those of us who work here are open, forward-looking, and driven. Through engagement and collaboration, we create a municipality where people and businesses can grow and develop. Do you want to be part of it?

Trust-based management and leadership are the foundation of our organization – and a key to our collective success. Read more about us as an employer at www.ljungby.se/jobb (http://www.ljungby.se/jobb).

About the School

Vittarydskolan is a school covering preschool class to grade 6. The school is located approximately 1.5 miles north of Ljungby. We are a small school where everyone knows everyone and where everyone helps out. We have good and functional facilities with large, pleasant outdoor areas both at the school and the preschool. The leisure center and preschool class share facilities. The school has a natural setting and is close to nature.

At Vittarydskolan, we have highly trained and competent staff, and together we aim to create an environment where everyone feels joy in work, motivation, and engagement.

Responsibilities

We are currently looking for a special educator for grades preschool class to 6.

In your role as a special educator, you will plan and conduct your own teaching. You will also work with mapping, guidance, and observation of individual students or groups. You will work preventively to remove obstacles in different learning environments and develop work related to support measures and adaptations for our students in need of special support.

You will be part of the student health team, which consists of the principal, a counselor, and a school nurse.

Qualifications and Merits

We want you, the applicant, to be a certified teacher/special educator with a valid teaching degree for instruction in grades preschool class to 6, or have other pedagogical education that the employer deems equivalent.

Meritorious experience includes special education/pedagogical resource work in Swedish, mathematics, and English. We look for someone who has the ability to collaborate well, with a solution-focused approach in a work team where high expectations and collegial learning are in focus.

You should be able to take responsibility for your tasks, see opportunities in change, listen and communicate constructively, value differences, and place great importance on working towards the school's mission and goals. This means that together with other pedagogues, you lead, organize, and structure the work to create a secure learning environment. We also place great emphasis on personal suitability.

Interviews will take place continuously during the recruitment process.

The Child and Education Board wants to utilize the qualities that a balanced gender distribution, ethnic, and cultural diversity bring to the operations.

Employment and Terms

Employment Type: Permanent position.
Duration: Permanent.

You apply for the position via Offentliga Jobb. Grades and certificates should not be attached to the application but brought to any potential interview.

Why work in Ljungby Municipality?

Balance in life is important to us! Here you can combine work with family and leisure time. We implement flexible hours and remote work in operations where it is permitted. We offer subsidized annual passes with Länstrafiken, fitness allowances, and much more. You also have free membership in the staff club, which provides opportunities for free training and swimming, as well as participation in other activities.

Through the initiative "A Municipality Free from Violence," we actively work to prevent and counteract violence in society for a safer future. As part of this, enhanced background checks and requirements to provide extracts from the criminal record register may be conducted for several positions.

Our operations have equality officers who work actively for a good work environment and support managers in equality issues. In this way, we ensure that everyone can work under equal conditions and is treated equally.

Our latest employee survey shows that:

• 93 percent feel that the job is meaningful.
• 93 percent experience that the manager trusts that employees perform their tasks well.
• 78 percent look forward to going to work.

The results are high regarding respectful treatment (93%) and security at the workplaces (94%).

As part of our work to grow Ljungby Municipality, we offer relocation services to make it easier to change living environments and move to our municipality. Email [email protected] if you want to know more about what we can help you with in connection with a move to Ljungby Municipality.

In Ljungby Municipality, we apply smoke-free working hours. The municipality takes responsibility for the entire recruitment process and therefore declines calls from recruitment agencies and ad salespeople.