Vacant job

Stockholm – our capital city with millions of dreams, expectations, and ambitions. We work for everyone who lives here today and in the future. Now we are looking for you who want to think big, new, and different with us – for the people of Stockholm.

Welcome to us

Midsommarkransen Gymnasium is located right in Midsommarkransen, close to Södermalm, with good transport connections, and currently has approximately 800 students. A key part of our profile is that we offer NIU (National Approved Sports Education). Many of our students develop their sports at an elite level while simultaneously completing their upper secondary education here. We offer both university-preparatory and vocational programs, and we also have an adapted upper secondary school.

Most staff members at the school are teachers, but we also employ caretakers, counselors, school nurses, special needs educators, career guidance counselors (SYV), administrative staff, school librarians, and principals. The school has its own kitchen that prepares our delicious meals, as well as its own café.

Motivation, passion, and commitment are the keywords for our school, both for students and adults. By leveraging the strengths within the building, we are building a school where students and staff thrive and develop. A school where you are seen and your competencies are valued and developed.

Everyone should grow at MKGY

We want our school to be a learning organization based on scientific grounds, where we as individuals grow with new knowledge and new perspectives. Participation is important to us. We develop this school together, both staff and students. Therefore, your initiatives and commitment are important for Midsommarkransen Gymnasium to continue to develop.

Your role

Job Description

In the role of Special Needs Educator:

• You are part of the school's student health services and work in a health-promoting and preventive manner so that all students receive the guidance and stimulation they need in their learning and personal development. This is so that each student can develop as far as possible based on their prerequisites.
• You have a consultative and supervisory assignment towards individual teachers and/or work teams in the proactive work to create accessible learning environments and in the work with extra adjustments.
• You propose interventions and adjustments for students in need of this and participate in meetings and in the preparation of investigations and action plans, as well as follow-up and evaluation of these.
• You have an overall responsibility to ensure that our students receive the right adjustments and support to succeed in their learning and personal development.
• You map opportunities and obstacles in the school environment with the aim of creating an accessible learning environment from different perspectives.
• You take initiatives for promoting interventions and follow up on and evaluate these at the individual, group, and organizational levels.
• You contribute to knowledge and learning about various disabilities and their significance for learning, and have a supervisory/consultative role to give advice and support to the school's teachers and student assistants regarding pedagogical, physical, and social adjustments.
• You contribute to school development by keeping up to date with current research in the field of education and special needs pedagogy.
• Work with students individually or in groups.
• The work involves many contact surfaces with students, staff, guardians, and external authorities.
• The position is a vacation cover position.

Your qualifications and experience

• You have a teaching license and a degree in special needs education.
• You have at least 1 year of experience in a similar position and of own class teaching.
• You have good judgment, high integrity, are meticulous, and have a good ability to build relationships.
• You have good cooperation skills and can create good relationships as the work involves many contact surfaces with students, staff, and guardians.
• Experience from upper secondary school is meritorious.

We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

Read more at pedagogstockholm.se (https://pedagogstockholm.se)

Stockholm City works with competency-based recruitment with the aim of looking at each person's competence and thereby combating discrimination.