Social Pedagogue for Åby School in Ljungby

In Ljungby Municipality, we are shaping the future together towards 35,000 inhabitants. We who work here are open, forward-looking, and driven. Through engagement and collaboration, we create a municipality where people and businesses can grow and develop. Do you want to be part of it?

Trust-based management and leadership are the foundation of our organization – and a key to our success together. Read more about us as an employer at www.ljungby.se/jobb (http://www.ljungby.se/jobb).

About Åby School

Åby School in Lagan is located in Ljungby Municipality and accepts students from preschool class to grade 9. The school is surrounded by nature and offers a beautiful natural environment. A large sports hall and artificial turf field are directly adjacent to the school, providing excellent conditions for physical education and health instruction.

At Åby School, we want everyone to feel safe, have a positive outlook on the future, and acquire and develop knowledge for life. We have trained and competent staff, and we want to create an environment where everyone feels joy in work, motivation, and engagement. The school is adapted to different age groups, including a cafeteria for junior high students with an adjacent recreation room for socializing and activities like table tennis and board games.

Åby School has well-functioning work teams and is a school with good order and structure.

Responsibilities

As a social pedagogue, you will have a special assignment to support students where absence risks affecting their learning, goal achievement, and well-being. The work aims to identify barriers to attendance and create sustainable solutions together with the student and their network.

Your tasks will include, among other things:

• Actively work to promote student attendance and participation in school.
• Build trusting relationships with students and guardians.
• Identify causes of problematic school absence and contribute to early interventions.
• Conduct supportive conversations with students and guardians.
• Collaborate closely with the school's student health services, mentors, teachers, and school leadership.
• Participate in the student health service's work with preventive and promoting initiatives.
• Coordinate contacts with external actors such as social services, child and adolescent psychiatry (BUP), and other authorities as needed.
• Document, follow up, and evaluate interventions related to school attendance.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who have:

• A social pedagogical education or other post-secondary education that the employer deems equivalent.
• Experience working with children and young people.
• Knowledge of factors affecting school attendance and mental health.
• Good collaboration skills and experience in cooperation between different professions.
• Good ability to express yourself in speech and writing in Swedish.

It is meritorious if you have experience working in schools, student health services, or attendance-promoting work.

To succeed in the role, you need to be:

• Relationship-building and secure in meetings with students and guardians.
• Receptive and empathetic with the ability to build trust.
• Secure, clear, and have a good ability to create positive relationships.
• Structured and enduring in your work.
• Independent while thriving in team work.
• Solution-focused and flexible.

What We Offer

Balance in life is important to us! Here you can combine work with family and leisure time. We apply flexible hours and remote work in operations where it is permitted. We offer a subsidized annual pass with Länstrafiken, wellness benefits, and much more. You also have free membership in the staff club, which gives you access to free training and swimming, as well as participation in other activities.

Through the initiative "A Municipality Free from Violence," we actively work to prevent and counteract violence in society for a safer future. As part of this, enhanced background checks and requirements to provide extracts from the criminal record may be conducted for several positions.

Our operations have equality officers who actively work for a good work environment and support managers in equality issues. In this way, we ensure that everyone can work under equal conditions and is treated equally.

Our latest employee survey shows that:

• 93 percent feel that the work is meaningful.
• 93 percent experience that the manager trusts that employees perform their tasks well.
• 78 percent look forward to going to work.

The result is high regarding respectful treatment (93%) and safety in the workplace (94%).

As part of our work to grow Ljungby Municipality, we offer an In- and Relocation Service that makes it easier to change living environment and move to our municipality. Email [email protected] if you want to know more about what we can help you with in connection with a move to Ljungby Municipality.

Other Information

In Ljungby Municipality, we apply smoke-free working hours. The municipality takes responsibility for the entire recruitment process and therefore declines calls from recruitment agencies and advertising salespeople.

Employment Type: Fixed-term employment.
Duration: 6 months or longer.
Number of Positions: 1

You apply for the position via Offentliga Jobb. Grades and certificates should not be attached to the application but brought to any potential interview. Interviews are conducted continuously during the recruitment process.

The Child and Education Committee wants to utilize the qualities that an even gender distribution, ethnic, and cultural diversity bring to the operations.