Special Educator for Preschool at Central Child and Student Health

Schools in Katrineholm offer a safe and developmental education with creative learning as the focus. Here, children and students are given the conditions to develop their talents and bloom at their own pace.

Within the Education and Employment Administration, we have preschools, primary schools, upper secondary schools, reception units for newly arrived students, municipal activity responsibility, adult education, cultural school, technical school, nature school, central child and student health services, youth clinic, employment unit, and a campus for higher studies.

Professions included in the central child and student health services are counselors, speech therapists, psychologists, special educators, school nurses, and school doctors. The unit is responsible for child and student health teams for preschool, primary school, adapted primary school, upper secondary school, and adapted upper secondary school. For primary and adapted primary schools, since the start of the school year in August 2025, there is an organization with five overarching student health teams aimed at creating good conditions for principals to lead and develop their student health work.

"Student Health in Focus" is, since the start of the school year in August 2025, a new forum for principals and all professions in the student health team, with the aim of developing preventive and health-promoting student health work through dialogue and creating equity in student health work. Collaboration with all professions and units within the Education and Employment Administration and other administrations in the municipality is important for the central Child and Student Health. Active work is underway to build bridges between the administration's different operations and the municipality's other administrations. Since September 2024, the psychosocial part of the Youth Clinic's operations has also been included under the umbrella of the central Child and Student Health.

Job Description

We are now looking for a special educator for preschool to the central child and student health services, requiring a degree in special education. Together with the head of the child and student health unit, the deputy school principal, principals, and the preschool speech therapist, you will have the opportunity to contribute to shaping the assignment so that it best matches our existing competencies and meets the needs of the preschools. Our development work is practice-oriented and based on scientific grounds and proven experience.

Language development is an active ongoing work; all preschools in Katrineholm Municipality have participated for three years in IFoU's program "Language-Developing Preschool." The preschools also show increased awareness of the importance of the learning environment, a work that can be further developed. As a special educator, you are a key person in the development work of the activity. Your approach is operation-oriented and characterized by cooperation, responsiveness, and engagement.

Child and Student Health functions as an important link between the municipality's different administrations, all municipalities in the region, and Region Sörmland. Katrineholm Municipality conducts active health-promoting work with Pep Municipality within the framework of Generation Pep, which has been noted nationally. "Together for the Children's Best in Sörmland" is a collaboration model for early interventions for children and young people aged 0–18, covering Region Sörmland's health care, the municipalities' social services, and preschool/school.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who have a degree in special education. You have good knowledge of the preventive and health-promoting mission of child and student health. Furthermore, you have documented experience in driving systematic change and development work. It is meritorious if you have previous experience of successfully leading and coordinating different professions within preschool.

You motivate, lead, and create conditions for others to develop the work and achieve common goals. With a realistic perspective, you contribute to clarifying tasks and goals for the group. You work solution-focused, build and maintain good relationships, and have the ability to create engagement in various contexts. The assignment involves collaboration in various forms, which means you have the ability to be both independent and have good collaboration skills.

What We Offer

• Salary form: Monthly salary.
• Employment type: Permanent employment.
• Duration: Permanent.

Katrineholm is a municipality where passion is the driving force for creation and development, for life, learning, and entrepreneurship. Our approximately 3,300 employees make a big difference every day, where we together work based on our core values RED; respect, openness, clarity, and trust to create the best conditions for our citizens. Here everything is close, one hour by train from Stockholm and two hours from Gothenburg.

Read more about us as an employer, our offer, and career paths here: https://www.katrineholm.se/arbeta-hos-oss/vi-som-arbetsgivare.html (https://www.katrineholm.se/arbeta-hos-oss/vi-som-arbetsgivare.html)

The current position will be filled subject to the decisions that are required. Katrineholm Municipality applies individual salary setting. All permanent employees are offered a full-time position, and we apply smoke-free working hours throughout the entire organization.

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