Special Educator/Class Teacher for Lerum's Adapted Upper Secondary School

Lerum Municipality is known for its beautiful natural areas with lakes and forests. The municipality has 3,200 employees and 43,000 residents, but expects significant growth in the coming years. Lerum is located just a 20-minute drive from Gothenburg and is currently undergoing an intensive development period with many exciting projects underway, ranging from schools to housing. The municipality works to ensure good service, high welfare, and a thriving business climate.

Dagens Samhälle has recently named Lerum the winner in the category of large municipalities (2025) - an award based on a comprehensive comparison of 290 Swedish municipalities regarding schools, healthcare and social care, economy, culture and leisure, attractiveness, business life, and future factors such as digitalization and civil preparedness. We are now a Super Municipality!

Lerum Upper Secondary School aims to be one of the most attractive upper secondary schools in the region and a natural choice for young people in Lerum. We are now looking for you who, together with students, staff, and school leadership, want to be part of this work.

At Lerum Upper Secondary School, there are just over 1,300 students across 9 national programs, adult education, and an adapted upper secondary school. The school's vision is "A school open to all - Become the best version of yourself".

1 position(s).

RESPONSIBILITIES

As a special educator/class teacher at Lerum's adapted upper secondary school, you have overall pedagogical responsibility for your group. Our mission rests on the Education Act and the regional framework, which means we focus on promoting students' personal development, social community, and progression towards goals.

You will be the hub in a classroom team where you lead the work with resource teachers and teaching assistants. Together, you create a safe and accessible learning environment where each student's unique abilities are at the center.

With us, you are never alone. We have formed a strong organization around our teaching. In the unit, we have a special educator who supports at the organizational, group, and individual levels, as well as a lead teacher with a specific mandate to lead the development of the work team.

Together, we are currently driving our priority development area: Develop teaching and student learning. For you, this means you will have a close, professional sounding board and good opportunities to develop in your professional role.

Your main areas of responsibility:

• Pedagogical Leadership & Assessment: You plan, conduct, and evaluate teaching, and are responsible for continuous assessment and students' progression towards goals.
• Accessible Learning Environment in Collaboration: You develop the learning environment with a focus on promoting and preventive measures, in close collaboration with the special educator and the Student Health Team (SHT).
• Systematic Quality Work (SQW): You drive the work of analyzing student progression and actively participate in the work team's collegial development in collaboration with the lead teacher and special educator.
• Communication & Leadership: You lead the classroom team operationally and own the formal dialogue with guardians regarding students' knowledge development.

QUALIFICATIONS

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

• A pedagogical university degree with eligibility to teach in adapted schools (meritorious if you are trained as a special educator).
• Experience working with the target group and a deep understanding of intellectual disabilities.
• Clear leadership skills and the ability to lead other adults in the classroom (resource teacher and teaching assistant).
• A drive for school development: You are motivated by collegial learning and want to contribute to our priority development area.

We offer a dynamic workplace with a clear role structure. You are backed up by a resource teacher (expert in AAC, LAB, and clarifying pedagogy), a teaching assistant (for close care work), and strong pedagogical support from a special educator and lead teacher. Here you get the prerequisites to focus on what you do best - teaching and student learning.

Employment type: Permanent.
Duration: Permanent.
Working hours: Daytime.

The development in Lerum Municipality should be sustainable, and our management is based on the global goals in Agenda 2030.

We believe that our differences enrich and positively develop the individual, the business, and society. As an employer, Lerum Municipality actively works for gender equality and diversity and against all forms of discrimination and offensive treatment.

We value a good working environment where you can combine work and leisure. As an employee, you will have access to a range of benefits, such as a fitness allowance and employee wellness programs. Read more about our employee benefits here: https://lerum.se/dina-formaner (https://lerum.se/dina-formaner)

As an employee in Lerum Municipality, there may be requirements to use a personal Bank-ID in the job for authentication in, for example, system logins or other verification.

To ensure quality in the recruitment process, we ask you to submit your application via this link, and not via email or paper format.

We warmly welcome your application!

In connection with this recruitment, we have already decided on the recruitment channels we wish to use. We kindly but firmly decline to be contacted for further offers of competence mediation, advertising, and recruitment assistance.

Selection and interviews take place on an ongoing basis.