We are looking for a Lead Teacher to Sätoftaskolan in Höör

Höör is located in the heart of Scania, has good train connections, beautiful nature, 17,000 inhabitants, and steady population growth. With approximately 1,400 employees, Höör Municipality is the largest employer. Many of our employees commute here.

As an employee of Höör Municipality, you will have the opportunity to work in an organization that is constantly developing. We place great value on customer service and help create good job satisfaction through open and constructive dialogue, respect, and tolerance towards colleagues and citizens. High service spirit, professionalism, and commitment characterize our organization.

About the workplace

Sätoftaskolan is a grades F-9 school with an associated after-school center. The school also houses the municipality's adapted comprehensive school. The school is beautifully located near a lake and forest with an inspiring outdoor environment. It is possible to commute to and from the school using public transport.

Approximately 500 students attend the school. The school is led by the principal and two deputy principals. The staff is divided into various work teams and teaching groups led by the school's team leaders/lead teachers.

Our core values: Knowledge, Respect, Responsibility, and Motivation (KRAM) permeate the school's daily work as well as our development work.

About the Lead Teacher role

As a Lead Teacher in Höör Municipality, you are particularly skilled in your teaching, base your work on scientific evidence and proven experience, and contribute to systematically driving the school forward towards higher goal achievement. You are constantly curious and engaged in analyzing, developing, and improving your own teaching based on scientific evidence, as well as being interested in systematically leading collegial learning with the aim of developing teachers' instructional skills in practice. You show passion for teaching and learning and have both the courage and drive to realize your ideas with the student's learning in focus.

Responsibilities

As a teacher in grades F-3, you are responsible for planning, implementing, and following up on teaching based on the goals of the curriculum. You work closely with colleagues in the work team and contribute to a safe, stimulating, and inclusive learning environment where every student is given the opportunity to develop based on their prerequisites.

At Sätoftaskolan, we work in a three-teacher system in grades 1-3, where collaboration, flexibility, and shared responsibility are a natural part of the operations. Together, we plan, follow up, and develop teaching to create good conditions for students' learning and well-being. The daily work includes teaching, mentoring, and relationship-building work with the students. You also have close collaboration with guardians through continuous dialogue, development conferences, and joint work regarding the students' development and safety.

The Lead Teacher role presupposes that you are well-versed in the different parts and content of the curriculum and can translate this into action. You have high competence within all parts of the teaching assignment.

The Lead Teacher role within the child and education sector entails an appointment for three school years with a working time of 40 hours of workplace-based time and 5 hours of trust-based time. The workplace-based time contributes to creating conditions for leading collegial learning, contributing to systematic quality work, collaborating with other lead teachers, and being a support in teaching development.

Qualifications

We are looking for someone who:

• Is a licensed teacher with eligibility for grades F-3 and has experience teaching in lower primary school
• Has good pedagogical skills and experience in creating good learning environments
• Has the ability to create good relationships with students, guardians, and colleagues
• Is committed, flexible, and has good collaboration skills

The criteria for the Lead Teacher role in Höör Municipality mean that you also:

• Can report, through documentation, at least four years of well-recognized work with teaching within the framework of one or more employments within the school system
• Have shown a particularly good ability to improve students' academic results and have a strong interest in developing teaching
• Primarily work with teaching
• Are assessed by the employer as particularly qualified for teaching and tasks related to teaching

As part of the profession program's merit system, you should additionally:

• Be interested in accumulating merits
• Have developed your teaching by systematically documenting, analyzing, and evaluating your teaching in relation to students' learning
• Be well-versed in factors for successful school and teaching improvement based on scientific evidence and proven experience

Additionally, it is meritorious for the Lead Teacher role if you have completed any further point-granting education related to teaching after graduation or have been involved in practice-oriented research.

What we offer

• Salary form: Monthly salary
• Employment type: Permanent position
• Duration: Permanent
• Working hours: Daytime

The position will be filled subject to the necessary political decisions being made and provided it does not need to be reserved for internal use.

We apply rolling selection, which means we may call for interviews before the application period has ended.

As an employee of Höör Municipality, you have a wellness allowance as an employment benefit; furthermore, we apply smoke-free working hours.

In connection with the recruitment process, we have taken a stance on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore expressly decline contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.