Qualified Teacher for Adapted School – Gävle Municipality

Do you want to help make Gävle even better with us? At Gävle Municipality, we work dedicatedly together 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).

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. Polhemsskolan has 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 specific subjects. The other position is directed towards the individual program where students study 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:

• Being responsible 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 in focus.
• 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 manner of dealing with people, a good ability to collaborate, and you value high quality in your work.

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

Qualifications

To succeed in the role, you should:

• Be a licensed and qualified primary school teacher for grades 4-6 or 7-9, and preferably have further education as a special needs 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.
• Have the ability 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 approaches 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 unpretentious approach to 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.
Duration: Permanent.

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 fitness and exercise when you have been 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, treatment, 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 ourselves on our jointly stated values.

Read more about us as an employer and what it is like to work in 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 belongs to the Finnish administrative area. Therefore, if you speak Finnish in addition to our other competence requirements, it can be an asset.

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