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Do you want to help create the best conditions for an equal education?

At the Swedish National Agency for Special Needs Education and Schools (SPSM), we work to ensure that all children, students, and adult learners with disabilities achieve their educational goals. We operate our own special schools in various locations across Sweden. We also provide support to preschools and schools nationwide to jointly create learning environments that are developmental and accessible. Additionally, we distribute state grants and develop teaching materials.

We hope that you, with your background and skills, can contribute to increasing our diversity.

We work passionately to make equality a reality. Together, we use collaboration and competence to solve assignments. Developing leadership and increasing diversity are currently on our agenda. Together, we contribute to sustainability in society, economically, socially, and environmentally. You can read more about what we offer at www.spsm.se/ledigajobb (https://www.spsm.se/ledigajobb).

Hällsboskolan Umeå

Hällsboskolan Umeå is a ten-year state special school under the Swedish National Agency for Special Needs Education and Schools.

The school admits students with severe speech and language disorders from all over the country. The school has a clear focus on language-supporting and language-developing teaching and adapts the school day based on the students' individual needs. The teaching is based on the special school ordinance according to the basic or adapted curriculum of the compulsory school.

The school's goal is for students to have the prerequisites to achieve knowledge goals, be active participants in various social contexts, and develop as individuals.

We have skilled and dedicated employees with high competence. The language-developing approach permeates our pedagogical work, and there is a student-centered student health team.

Are you looking for an exciting workplace where you have room to influence?

Are you looking for a new challenge and want to work towards the goal of equal education for all?

Then you are the teacher we would like to meet.

1 position(s).

Job Responsibilities

We are looking for a teacher with broad subject competence for middle and upper secondary levels who wishes to combine their role by working 80% as a teacher and 20% in study and career guidance.

As a teacher with us, you work with knowledgeable and experienced colleagues in the daily work of adapting for an accessible learning environment. In teaching, you work together with colleagues to support students' knowledge development and goal fulfillment.

We have small teaching groups to create good conditions for learning and for each student to feel included and develop their communicative ability and language together with others. Various forms of documentation are relevant - for example, special support and assessments.

In the SYV (Study and Career Guidance) role, you work in the special school with individual and/or group guidance. You provide information about future studies and the working life. From a student health perspective, you participate with a focus on study guidance and also in the collegial work of supporting the student's study situation and making appropriate educational choices.

At the school, you are responsible for the students' individual study guidance. In collaboration with the school's pedagogues, you are responsible for information about different study programs and other methods to create a meeting between the student and future working life. Guidance counselors and pedagogues work together in a broad perspective on study and career guidance. You participate in the transfer of students from the special school to upper secondary school.

Working with us requires close cooperation with the students' guardians as well as other external actors who are important for the students' health and development.

You will also have support from a special needs educator, IT-pedagogue, counselor, psychologist, school nurse, and speech therapist.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who:

Education:

• Have a teacher's license with broad subject competence and eligibility to teach students at the special school.

Work Experience:

• Experience working at a special school as a teacher and study and career guidance counselor for the target group of students with severe speech and language disorders in middle and upper secondary levels.

Language Skills/Communication Methods:

• You express yourself well in speech and writing.

IT Skills:

• Good IT skills.

It is meritorious if you have:

• Experience working with students with speech disorders and other neuropsychiatric disabilities both in the role of teacher and study and career guidance counselor.
• Experience working with students in need of special support.
• Experience using IT and media in meetings with students both in groups and individually.
• Experience working with AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication).

Other Knowledge:

• You have the ability to see each individual student's prerequisites and opportunities.

Personal Qualities:

• You are flexible in your working method, solution-oriented, and have experience collaborating in work teams regarding student groups.
• You contribute, both individually and together with others, to creating a safe and trusting environment based on mutual respect and good relationships.
• You have personal maturity, integrity, and are proactive.
• You have good communicative and collaborative skills.

We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

Employment Type: Fixed-term employment.
Duration: 6 months or longer.

In all recruitment, we value the qualities that equality and diversity bring to the operations.

An extract from the criminal record must be presented prior to employment.

You need to be able to be on-site to meet our students physically.

In the event of a societal crisis, you may be directed to work between the agency's operational areas based on your location.

Regarding the recruitment process, we have taken a stance on recruitment channels and marketing. We hereby decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance.