Special Needs Teacher with Focus on Intellectual Disability – 4 Positions

Kramfors Municipality is the natural hub of the High Coast, shaped over millennia. Here, people, places, and environments can grow according to their own conditions.

Together, we create welfare and a functioning society that is equal and just for everyone who lives and visits the municipality. We are proud to say that we have Sweden's most important job! This is a great starting point for making a workday with us feel meaningful.

Kramfors School is centrally located in Kramfors, close to both the bus and train stations. The school is a unit for grades 4–6 with approximately 300 students. The unit also includes adapted primary school for grades 1–9 and an after-school center.

Everything we do should be characterized by security, commitment, and hope for the future. In our work with students, we start from health-promoting factors and the students' strengths. We also work from the premise that good relationships between students and adults are a fundamental basis for learning and development.

Collaboration and shared responsibility are key foundations in our operations, where we create conditions for both student development and a good work environment for everyone through good communication, cooperation, and collaboration. We see movement, breaks, and social contexts as important parts of students' development, both academically and socially. A safe school environment with security, well-being, and study quiet is created through clear structures, good communication, and close collaboration between all staff and guardians.

About the Position

We are now looking for a Special Needs Teacher with a focus on intellectual disability.

4 positions.

Responsibilities

As a Special Needs Teacher with a focus on intellectual disability, you work to create accessible, structured, and secure learning environments where students are given the opportunity to develop academically, socially, and personally. The role includes working according to the school's directives, curriculum, and national goals, where teaching is designed to promote students' knowledge development, security, and study quiet.

You collaborate closely with other teachers, student resources, student health services, guardians, and external actors. As a Special Needs Teacher, you are also responsible for leading and coordinating the work of student resources regarding the students. This involves planning and structuring the pedagogical work in the student group and contributing to clear working methods and pedagogical strategies. You participate in the school's systematic quality work and contribute to the development of teaching and support measures.

Teaching is designed with the support of clarifying pedagogy, augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), and a low-affective and relational approach. Teaching can take place in a class, in smaller groups, or individually.

Our Platform for Management and Leadership guides us in our daily work and contributes to equal quality throughout the entire school unit. The platform clarifies our common processes, roles, and responsibilities and is a fundamental part of our work. Systematic quality work is a central part of operations and is used continuously to develop teaching, organization, and learning environments with the goal of increasing students' goal achievement.

Placement, grades, classes, and subjects may vary during the year and between different school years based on operational needs. The position includes mentoring students.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who are a licensed teacher with a Special Needs Teacher degree or equivalent competence. A Special Needs Teacher degree is highly meritorious and may be required in the future.

You also have:

• Documented good cooperation skills and a strong sense of responsibility.
• Very good ability to build trusting relationships with students, colleagues, and guardians.
• Ability to adapt teaching and interaction to students' daily condition and needs.
• A secure, structured, and professional demeanor in various student situations.
• A low-affective approach and focus on contributing to calmness and stability.
• Very good leadership skills and ability to organize and prioritize.
• Ability to lead staff in the daily work regarding students.
• Very good ability to express yourself in Swedish, both verbally and in writing.

Great importance will be placed on personal suitability, and a holistic assessment of education, experience, and personal qualities will be made.

Employment Type: Permanent.
Duration: Permanent.

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally and not via email or paper format.

Please state reference number and salary expectations in your application. References are provided upon request, and for certain positions in the municipality's operations, a extract from the criminal record is required. In our municipality, a number of positions are classified in security classes, so a security check may be conducted.

The School Act requires all employees to present an extract from the criminal record. You order an extract for work in schools or preschools via www.polisen.se

We have chosen our media for recruitment and therefore decline contact with sellers of recruitment services.

We warmly welcome your application for one of Sweden's most important jobs!

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