School Counselor in Nässjö Municipality

Increased learning, equality, and meeting places – three important core values that permeate all work in Nässjö Municipality's schools. Nässjö is a medium-sized municipality with approximately 30,000 inhabitants located on the Småland highlands. To realize these values, the municipal council has adopted a strategic and long-term development plan for preschool and school.

Within the Child and Education Administration, we work consciously and goal-oriented to give every child and student the tools required to seek knowledge in life. The goal is for every child and student to develop according to their prerequisites and feel joy and pride in their successes.

About the Position

We are looking for a school counselor who wants to be part of the psychosocial effort within the Central Student Health Care (Centrala Elevhälsan). The Central Student Health Care consists of a broad range of competencies and different professions. In addition to school counselors, there are school doctors, school psychologists, school nurses, special educators, special teachers, speech therapists, pedagogues, student coaches, and development teachers.

As a school counselor, you will play a key role in student health and school development. You will be part of the school's student health team, working closely with other professionals. As a school counselor, you work in a promoting and preventive capacity with the aim of creating a good environment for students' health, learning, and development. The school counselor is an expert in social work and social legislation.

The assignment is governed by the Education Act, the Social Services Act, the Discrimination Act, the Public Access to Information and Secrecy Act, and municipal steering documents.

Your Responsibilities

• Actively drive the values-based work in the school and strive to ensure that human rights and democracy are followed.
• Carry out professional conversations, such as support, motivation, crisis, and conflict counseling, as well as investigative, advisory, and processing conversations with individual students and their families.
• Investigate and assess the social and psychosocial situation for individual students and for the school as a whole.
• Initiate and participate in reports to the social services and police.
• Document performed interventions in the school's journal system.
• Work with individual students and groups in acute situations and for preventive purposes.
• Participate in the Student Health Team (EHT) and safety teams.
• Contribute to the competence development of other school staff within the social and psychosocial area.
• Participate in crisis groups.
• Collaborate with societal resources, social services, psychiatry, habilitation, police, and youth clinics.
• Contribute to school development.
• Serve as a good external representative for the school as a social worker.
• Keep up to date within the profession.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who have a degree in social work (socionom) or another equivalent behavioral science education. Experience working with children and young people and experience as a school counselor are meritorious.

You have good insight into the school's goals and steering documents, knowledge of other administrations and, for example, child and adolescent psychiatry (BUP), as well as knowledge of practice and guidelines within the field.

What We Offer

• Salary: Monthly salary.
• Employment type: Permanent position.
• Duration: Permanent.
• Working hours: Daytime.

Please read more about what it is like to work in Nässjö Municipality at www.nassjo.se (http://www.nassjo.se).

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