Teacher for Adapted School – Polhemsskolan, Gävle

Do you want to help make Gävle even better with us? At Gävle Municipality, we work together with dedication to offer our residents a safe and inspiring environment. We offer you a workplace built on trust, where you can develop professionally and grow as a person. We welcome your application!

1 position(s).

Job Description

Polhemsskolan is Gävle's largest upper secondary school with approximately 1,600 students. The school offers 10 national programs, including one preparatory program, nine vocational programs, and an adapted upper secondary school. At Polhemsskolan, we have well-developed work teams and extensive quality work aimed at increasing student goal achievement.

One of the positions is linked to teaching within vocational programs where students study specific subjects. The other position is directed towards the individual program where students study specific subject areas.

In the adapted primary school, you work together with other educators in teaching, such as preschool teachers, leisure center pedagogues, and student assistants. We also work in close collaboration with guardians and other actors outside the school. Education in the adapted school provides students with important knowledge and values, contributes to personal development and social cohesion, and creates a good foundation for active participation in society.

Your responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Taking responsibility for planning, teaching, and assessment according to decided goals and guidelines for the adapted school.
• Creating a school where everyone feels safe and seen.
• Designing a good, enjoyable, and varied school day with the students' best interests at the forefront.
• Using your competence to challenge and support students so they achieve good academic results.
• Adapting your teaching based on all students' needs and prerequisites.

In accordance with Gävle Municipality's values, you have a good attitude towards people, strong collaboration skills, and care about high quality in your work.

In this recruitment process, interviews may be conducted on an ongoing basis.

Qualifications

To succeed in the role, you must:

• Be a licensed and qualified primary school teacher for grades 4–6 or 7–9, and preferably have further education as a special education teacher specializing in intellectual disability.
• Have previous experience working with several of the following areas: intellectual disability, multiple disabilities, neuropsychiatric disabilities, and visual and hearing impairments.
• Have knowledge of the curriculum for the adapted school.
• Be able to express yourself well in Swedish, both orally and in writing.
• Have knowledge of and experience working with digital tools.

Previous experience with AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication), sign language, and low-arousal approach is meritorious for this position, as is experience working within the adapted school.

To succeed in the role, you are:

• Stable: You inspire trust and have the ability to spread calm and stability.
• Relationship-building: You take initiative in social contexts and have the ability to build trust in your professional relationships.
• Collaborative: You have an egalitarian approach in your collaboration with students, colleagues, guardians, and other actors.
• Flexible: You adapt to different situations and have the ability to change your perspective and approach. You see opportunities in change.

Employment type: Permanent position.
Duration: Permanent.

We offer you

You are important to us! As an employee at Gävle Municipality, you have:

• Generous vacation conditions, and as a new employee, you are entitled to paid vacation already during your first year of employment.
• Compensation for fitness and exercise when employed for more than three months.
• Various insurances through our collective agreements, including health insurance and work injury insurance.

Read more about our benefits here: https://www.gavle.se/formaner (https://www.gavle.se/formaner)

Our Values

Quality, attitude, and collaboration are the most important success factors for carrying out our mission in the best way. To do the right things and act wisely in our daily lives, it is important that we base our actions on our jointly stated values.

Read more about us as an employer and what it is like to work at Gävle Municipality here: https://www.gavle.se/jobbahososs (https://www.gavle.se/jobbahososs)

Here you can read more about our organization: https://www.gavle.se/organisation (https://www.gavle.se/organisation)

Gävle Municipality is part of the Finnish-speaking administrative area. Therefore, if you speak Finnish in addition to our other competence requirements, it can be a merit.

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