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Do you have the courage to lead and create a Vallentuna where people and ideas thrive? Are you passionate about developing teaching methods and inspiring new ways of working? We are looking for you, a driven special needs educator who sees the value in working on school development.

Vallentuna Municipality has the courage to lead. Our ambition is to be at the forefront when it comes to innovative solutions, smart working methods, and an efficient organization. As an employee, you play a vital role in this development work. The municipality as a workplace is characterized by a consensus between politics and operations, where the common interest and responsibility for Vallentuna's best shine through. Attitude, accessibility, and customer focus are important in our work to achieve good results and increased quality.

Engagement, collaboration, and the equal value of all should permeate our organization. You, as a candidate, should naturally share our common values.

About the Operations

Karlslundsskolan is a well-functioning F-9 school located in central Vallentuna with easy access to good transportation. The school has approximately 500 students and 80 employees. The school owns all its premises and has its own restaurant kitchen. Our vision is to increase accessibility in learning and development for the students, with a focus on learning environments and modern planning that starts from the students' needs.

You will join a culture where new thinking is encouraged, and where we gladly support you in your development projects with colleagues. Karlslundsskolan is Erasmus+ accredited and conducts several exchanges with students and teachers every year. Vallentuna music classes are run by Karlslundsskolan and represent an exciting culture that characterizes the school unit.

Job Responsibilities

As a special needs educator, you work closely with the teachers and for the students. You develop the school unit by making teaching accessible to the students. With good communication and strong relationships, you act as a professional sounding board for the teachers. You work on finding areas for development for the entire school unit and in individual teaching situations. Through qualitative analysis and systematic work, you drive development processes continuously in practice.

This position has a primary focus on the later years of compulsory school. You need to have a sharp pedagogical eye that sees what needs to be developed, as well as the drive and knowledge to implement development in practice. You see opportunities to develop teaching together with teachers and pedagogues.

Your working style is proactive and outreach-oriented. You are a support for the entire school with your special needs pedagogical knowledge in focus. We have trust-based and distributed leadership and management at the school. It is a great advantage if you yourself have a talent for this, take great responsibility, and are driven by success in practice.

You are responsible for developing promoting, preventive, remedial, and supportive measures, in collaboration with guardians, teachers, and school management. You are also responsible for conducting pedagogical mapping and investigations of various kinds, drawing up, and continuously evaluating action plans and support measures. You work with the results follow-up plan to then evaluate, analyze, follow up, and implement changes in teaching together with the teachers.

You plan structural support for students and communicate this with the teachers. You communicate with guardians of students who need more support and teach students in the learning studio. You also conduct planning and follow-up of various school development processes. You will be a natural and important part of the school's student health team. You work closely with the deputy principal and school management.

Qualifications

• You are educated as a special needs educator or special teacher.
• You have experience of teaching in compulsory school.
• You have experience of mentoring teachers regarding teaching and adaptations for students with special needs.
• You have very good pedagogical competence to ensure the quality of work with action plans and support measures.

Personal Attributes

• You work towards results, show reliability, and take responsibility for planning and follow-up of your work.
• You strengthen relationships by helping others, collaborating, following rules and processes, and sharing information.
• You develop, improve, seek solutions, learning, and knowledge on your own initiative.
• You are the link, provide service, show loyalty outwardly and inwardly, and monitor the external environment.
• Common values are visible in your attitude.

Information:

As an employer, we want to utilize the qualities that a balanced gender distribution and cultural diversity bring. Vallentuna Municipality invests in competence development and a sustainable working life. To give you the best possible conditions in your role as an employee, Vallentuna Municipality has an employee academy where you will receive training and tools.

The employment is a permanent full-time position, holiday service, starting in August or as agreed. We apply individual salary setting, and a probationary period may be applied.

All those employed to work with children and young people must submit a certificate of good conduct from the police authority's criminal record register. E-service for application via digital extract or form can be found here:

https://polisen.se/belastningsregistret?mtm_campaign=utdrag&mtm_kwd=post0623 (https://polisen.se/belastningsregistret?mtm_campaign=utdrag&mtm_kwd=post0623)

Before all new hires, Vallentuna Municipality conducts background checks.

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process, we use the tool ReachMee. We ask you to submit your application by clicking the application link in the advertisement. We do not accept applications/expressions of interest via email. If you have any questions, you are welcome to contact us as described below. Interviews are held continuously.

You are warmly welcome to send your application with a cover letter and CV by July 30th.

For more information contact:

Principal: Mattias Lingeskog, [email protected]

Learn more about how we work at Karlslundsskolan and read a report with Karlslundsskolan's employees and principal: https://www.vallentuna.se/forskola-och-skola/grundskola-och-fritidshem/grundskolor-i-kommunen/grundskolor-i-centrala-vallentuna/karlslundsskolan/sa-har-arbetar-vi/ (https://www.vallentuna.se/forskola-och-skola/grundskola-och-fritidshem/grundskolor-i-kommunen/grundskolor-i-centrala-vallentuna/karlslundsskolan/sa-har-arbetar-vi/)

More information and union representatives can be found on our website: https://www.vallentuna.se/naringsliv-och-arbete/arbeta-hos-oss/lokala-fackliga-foretradare/ (https://www.vallentuna.se/naringsliv-och-arbete/arbeta-hos-oss/lokala-fackliga-foretradare/)