Vacant job

Ref: 20261396

Job Description

Do you want one of the most important and rewarding roles in the world of education? We are currently looking for a special needs teacher with a passion for sports, health, and motor development who wants to make a real difference for our students in our adapted primary school.

As a special needs teacher with us, you play a key role in creating an accessible, safe, and stimulating learning environment. Your daily work is varied, and you work both directly with students and strategically together with colleagues and school leadership.

Your main responsibilities include:

• Planning and conducting teaching, assessments, guidance, and observations of individual children, students, and groups.
• Actively influencing and stimulating students to develop as much as possible – both academically and socially – to meet the knowledge requirements.
• Educating and guiding your colleagues, as well as serving as a pedagogical support to the school leadership in working with children and students in need of special support.
• Participating in and driving operational and method development with a focus on sports, motor skills, and adapted pedagogy.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who are a certified primary school teacher / certified preschool teacher and have a special needs teacher degree with a specialization in intellectual disability. If you have previous experience working as a special needs teacher, it is an advantage. You need to have good knowledge of the school's steering documents and the ability to apply them in your daily work. It is important that you have good didactic and pedagogical skills and knowledge of relevant digital tools.

To succeed and thrive in this role, we see that you have the following qualities:

• Relationship-building and empathetic: You have a genuine ability to meet each student based on their unique conditions and build safe relationships.
• Pedagogical leadership: You are confident in your leadership role, spread positive energy in the gym, and can create structure and predictability.
• Collaboration and guidance skills: Since you are to support both colleagues and management, you are communicative, pedagogical in your approach, and good at sharing your expertise.
• Flexible and solution-oriented: You adapt easily when conditions change and see opportunities rather than obstacles in daily operations.

We look forward to receiving your application!

About the Workplace

At Mellanhed School, we work for an inclusive environment where every student is given the conditions to succeed based on their own needs. Our adapted primary school currently has 53 students and a close, non-hierarchical team consisting of special needs teachers, student assistants, and special educators. We place great emphasis on safety, structure, and having fun together along the way.

The Primary School Administration – the city's largest administration with approx. 80 schools, 6,300 employees, and 36,000 students offers a workplace for everyone. Here we want to grow, develop, and challenge ourselves in our learning together – every day. We ensure that everyone gets a good work environment and invest in leadership. Together we all work for every student's best school! The Primary School Administration's student health service is HBTQI-certified, which strengthens the strategic work aimed at creating a good work environment and an HBTQI-competent and inclusive approach in our schools.

Malmö City's operations are organized into 14 administrations. Our joint mission is to create welfare and sustainable societal development. Together with the people of Malmö, we are developing an even better city to live, work, and be in; differences, life experiences, and talents make Malmö a smart city in the heart of Europe. The world's knowledge is here.

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Information about the position

Employment type: Permanent

Scope: Full-time

Number of positions: 1

Start date: 2026-08-10

Other

Please note that Malmö City has removed the cover letter from the application process and replaced it with selection questions, this for a more inclusive recruitment process and an efficient candidate experience for you who are applying for a job with us. Your answers will become an important part of our selection work.

According to the Education Act, a certificate of good conduct from the police's criminal record register is required upon employment in preschool, school, and school-age care. The form to order the extract can be found at: https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/skola-eller-forskola/

Malmö City strives for employees to represent the diversity found in our city. We therefore welcome applicants who can contribute to us as an employer meeting the needs of the people of Malmö.

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