Special Education Teacher for Polhemsskolan in 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 secure 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).

RESPONSIBILITIES

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 adapted upper secondary education. At Polhemsskolan, there are well-developed work teams and extensive quality work aimed at increasing student goal achievement.

One of the positions is linked to teaching in vocational programs where students study subjects. The other position is for the individual program where students study subject areas.

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

Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• being responsible for planning, teaching, and assessment according to decided goals and guidelines for adapted schools
• creating a school where everyone feels safe and seen
• designing a good, enjoyable, and varied school day with the students' best interests in focus
• challenging and supporting students with your competence so they achieve good study results
• adapting your teaching based on all students' needs and prerequisites.

In accordance with Gävle Municipality's values, you have a good manner of treating people, a good ability to collaborate, and value high quality in your work.

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

QUALIFICATIONS

For the position of Special Education Teacher focusing on subject areas, we are looking for you who have:

• Preschool teacher certification and preferably further education as a Special Education Teacher focusing on intellectual disability
• Knowledge of and familiarity with the curriculum for adapted schools
• Previous experience working with intellectual disabilities, multiple disabilities, neuropsychiatric disabilities, vision, and hearing impairments
• Knowledge of and experience working with digital tools
• The ability to express yourself well in Swedish, both orally and in writing

Previous experience with AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication), sign language, and low-affective handling is meritorious for this position, as is experience working within adapted schools.

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.

We offer you

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

• generous holiday conditions, and as a new employee, you are entitled to paid holiday already during your first year of employment
• compensation for wellness and exercise when you have been employed for more than three months
• several different insurances through our collective agreements, for example, sickness insurance and work injury insurance are included.

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

Our Values

Quality, treatment, and collaboration are the most important success factors for solving our mission in the best way. To do the right things and act wisely in our daily lives, it is important that we base ourselves 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 administrative area. Therefore, if you speak Finnish in addition to our other competency requirements, it can be a merit.

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