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Special Educator for Forshällaskolan in Uddevalla

Uddevalla – a place for life

Welcome to become part of our growing municipality – and to work with us to provide our residents with even better service.

We offer an attractive workplace that gives you great opportunities to develop in your professional role. Our goal is for everyone to thrive and grow – throughout their entire career. We also want to develop as an employer and actively work to make the best use of your knowledge and commitment. We appreciate and encourage participation from everyone.

Uddevalla Municipality is a beautiful place by the sea in the heart of Bohuslän. We believe in an open and positive interaction between the municipality, education, business, and culture.

We hope you will enjoy working with us!

We are looking for you who are a special educator and who are passionate about collaborating with others and believe it is important to work in a developmental and salutogenic manner. Through collegial learning and collaboration across boundaries, we gain security and the development of teaching, and thus good conditions for good knowledge development among our students.

About the Position

Forshällaskolan is located in the countryside, approximately one mile south of Uddevalla. The school is a three-parallel F-6 school (grades 1-6) with approximately 420 students. The school also has 5 after-school care departments. The number of pedagogical staff at the school is approximately 55. In addition to the pedagogical staff, there is a student health team consisting of a counselor, special needs educator, school nurse, deputy principal, and principal.

Responsibilities

Together with colleagues, you have an important task to create conditions for accessible teaching for our students. We start from the premise that the student is not, but becomes, in a context. You enjoy guiding students in their learning through flexible and adapted solutions based on individual needs and abilities.

As a special educator, you collaborate closely with our pedagogues and are part of the student health team.

You have a collaborative approach and see benefits in learning from each other so that all students can achieve the best possible knowledge results.

The role includes working preventively to remove obstacles in different learning environments and being a support for students and student groups. You are also a support for teaching teachers in matters related to leadership and stimulation, extra adaptations, and special support. In your work, you collaborate with the school's student health team and work groups.

Your responsibilities include:

• coordinating and planning special needs education
• planning, implementing, assessing, and following up on teaching for individual students/groups who are in need of special support based on identified needs – this is done in collaboration with the responsible and grading teacher
• being a support to teachers in designing teaching strategies and adaptations based on student needs, in collaboration with the special needs educator
• together with teachers, observing students in need of special support and subsequently discussing and analyzing interventions
• being involved in pedagogical mapping and investigations and collaborating with the special needs educator and teachers to develop and follow up on action plans.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who have

• a teaching license with a focus on primary school (preferably grades 4-6)
• a degree as a special educator

You find it easy to collaborate and are very skilled at creating good and sustainable professional relationships with students, colleagues, and guardians. You are an active and attentive participant in meetings with colleagues and guardians and contribute with competence and professionalism. You are a driven and self-reliant person who is good at planning your work in a structured way. You express yourself well in writing. You are interested in working to develop schools with improvement issues regarding student health work and have a holistic thinking in your solution-focused approach.

It is meritorious if you have several years of experience in similar work. We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

We will conduct interviews on an ongoing basis, so please submit your application today.

Employment is subject to the necessary decisions being made. For positions where the work involves direct and regular contact with children and young people, as well as for operations within LSS (Act for Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments), care and assistance, health care, psychiatric care, and addiction care, a valid extract from the police criminal record must be presented or submitted prior to employment. Please note that it may take time to obtain the extract, so order it well in advance so that the recruitment process is not delayed.

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