Special Teacher for Emanuel School in Sjöbo

Our 1,300 employees play a vital role in Sjöbo's development and well-being. We continuously strive to become a more attractive and equitable employer, offering our employees a wide range of wellness benefits, smoke-free working hours, and flexible working times where possible.

Emanuel School is a preschool to grade 6 school located in central Sjöbo with approximately 350 students. We work in close and professional collaboration with students, colleagues, and guardians. The operations are characterized by a strong focus on children and students, close collaboration between professions, and a shared ambition to create safe, accessible, and inclusive learning environments. Through joint analysis, dialogue, and reflection, we develop teaching and ensure high quality. Language-developing approaches, values-based work, and preventive student health work are central parts of our work and our direction forward.

1 position(s).

RESPONSIBILITIES

Are you driven by meeting curious and fantastic students and want to work in an environment where development, relationships, and well-being are taken very seriously? Are you looking for a workplace where courage, engagement, and the desire to make a real difference characterize daily life, and where you yourself get the opportunity to grow in your pedagogical leadership together with both students and brave, driven colleagues?

Do you also want to take joint responsibility for lifting and developing education in Sjöbo Municipality, turning will into reality?

Then this might be the right assignment for you.

As a special teacher at Emanuel School, you will become an important part of our student-focused work. You will be part of teams together with special educators and teachers, where we jointly develop teaching and create good learning environments for all students.

In your role, you work both in class, in smaller groups, and as needed at the individual level. You follow, assess, and teach students' language, writing, and reading development, and contribute your specialist competence to the work group's planning and analysis work. You are a central actor in designing extra adaptations, special support measures, and action plans of high quality.

As a special teacher with us, you are both a qualified conversation partner and an advisor for students, guardians, and colleagues. You drive the school's development work and contribute to creating a safe, inclusive, and inspiring learning environment where all students are given the opportunity to reach knowledge goals.

The role includes among other things:

• teaching and following students' language, writing, and reading development
• conducting pedagogical assessments and formulating action plans
• contributing to the development of learning environments and approaches
• collaborating closely with special educators, student health services, and work groups
• being a clear, safe, and engaged pedagogical leader
• working both independently and in teams with a focus on quality and goal fulfillment

You develop your work based on evidence-based research. You have a flexible and non-hierarchical approach and see the value in learning from and together with others.

The position is a permanent full-time position (100%).

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for you who:

• are a certified primary school teacher with qualifications in Swedish/Swedish as a second language
• have a special teacher degree with a focus on language, reading, and writing development
• have good knowledge of and experience working based on the Swedish National Curriculum for Compulsory School, Preschool Class and the Leisure-center (Lgr22)
• communicate well in speech and writing in Swedish

Personal qualities:

• Are positive with a twinkle in the eye, engaged, and curious in your pedagogical mission.
• Are creative and think outside the box to motivate and engage all students.
• Are structured, responsible, and secure in your professional role.
• Are courageous in your leadership in the classroom and dare to try new approaches.
• Have the ability to see each student's opportunities and adapt teaching based on different needs.
• Analytical and confident in assessment, with the ability to interpret results from e.g., LegiLexi, Kartläggaren, and the Swedish National Agency for Education's assessment support to translate them into relevant pedagogical interventions.
• Obviously, you have a professional approach and work for good relationships with students, colleagues, school librarians, and guardians.

Merits:

• You have experience working as a teacher in lower primary school and with early reading and writing acquisition.
• Previous experience working as a special teacher.
• Further specialization in mathematics that strengthens the school's combined competence.
• Accustomed to conducting pedagogical assessments and formulating high-quality action plans.
• Experience collaborating with student health services and cross-professional teams.
• Good ability to use digital tools and alternative learning tools in language, reading, and writing instruction.
• Experience working with multilingual students and language and knowledge-developing approaches.
• Interest in or experience in driving development work related to learning environments and inclusion.
• Experience mentoring colleagues or contributing to competence development.

Interviews will be held on June 30 - July 1.

Salary: Monthly salary.
Employment type: Permanent employment.
Working hours: Daytime.

Employees are sought on the condition that the position does not have to be taken by already employed personnel or persons with priority rights.

In connection with the recruitment process, Sjöbo Municipality has carefully considered recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore explicitly decline contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.

We value the qualities that diversity and equal gender distribution bring to the operations and therefore welcome applicants with different backgrounds and life experiences for the position.

Sjöbo is an expanding municipality in southern Scania. Here live 19,500 residents who have close access to varied nature and many different housing options to choose from.