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Stockholm – our capital city of millions of dreams, expectations, and ambitions. We work for everyone who lives here today and in the future. We are now looking for you who wants to think big, new, and different with us – for the people of Stockholm.

Welcome to us

Polhem's Adapted Upper Secondary School is a creative school where students learn through experiences. In an open and creative environment, our students develop together. Through good relationships, accessibility, and clear structure, we create security for our students.

Knowledge, culture, and health are at the center here.

Polhem's Adapted Upper Secondary School is located near Fridhemsplan with several subway lines and buses. This makes it easy for both students and staff to get to school. In the vicinity of the school, there is culture and service, parks, and green areas, all within walking distance.

Approximately 200 students attend Polhem's Adapted Upper Secondary School today. 145 students follow the national programs and 55 students follow the individual program.

Polhem's Adapted Upper Secondary School offers four programs: three national and one individual:

• The Individual Program.
• The Program for Aesthetic Activities.
• The Program for Crafts and Production with a profile in fine woodworking or hairdressing.
• The Program for Society, Nature, and Languages.

There are approximately 100 employees at the school, and we are now looking for a special needs teacher with qualifications in the subject areas Language and Communication and Individual and Society. You will become an important part of the school's mission to prepare and train students to become active future citizens. Central to this is the students' acquisition of knowledge to increase their opportunities to create the best possible conditions for the future.

Welcome to read more about our school at: Polhem's Adapted Upper Secondary School – City of Stockholm (#)

We offer

Do you have knowledge and interest in making learning accessible and creating good conditions for development? Do you also have experience working with upper secondary students within the target group who are at an early cognitive level? Then you should apply to us!

We offer you:

• A secure and inclusive work environment with engaged students and colleagues.
• A meaningful assignment where you make a difference.

Your role

As a teacher at Polhem's Adapted Upper Secondary School, you are responsible for planning, teaching, evaluating, and assessing instruction based on each student's individual prerequisites, needs, and goals. The instruction is characterized by structure, clarity, security, and a low-affective approach.

You design the instruction in accordance with curricula, subject area plans, and current knowledge requirements.

The role includes teaching, mentorship, participation in program and subject group work, as well as other pedagogical processes regarding our students.

You collaborate with colleagues and are an important part of collegial learning to create new and in-depth knowledge. You cooperate with student health services, guardians, and external actors.

Together, we create an accessible, meaningful, and developmental learning environment where every student is given the opportunity to succeed.

Your competence and experience

We are looking for someone who:

• Wants to work with students on the individual program.
• Has high expectations for the student's learning.
• Has good pedagogical insight and is clear, engaged, and works purposefully to ensure that each student reaches as far as possible in their knowledge development.
• Adapts the learning environment and teaching materials based on the students' needs.
• Works with clarifying pedagogy and alternative and augmentative communication (AAC).
• Has experience working in adapted school forms, preferably at an adapted upper secondary school.

You are a certified teacher with qualifications in the subject areas Language and Communication and Individual and Society, and you have a special needs teacher degree with a focus on intellectual disability.

You work to make the student involved in their own learning and develop the student's ability to learn, both independently and together with others.

As a person, you are secure, stable, have self-awareness, and are a clear leader in the classroom. You structure and organize your work in an effective way. Your communication is clear, and you adapt your way of conveying knowledge based on the students' different prerequisites.

You lead and organize your work so that a secure, accessible learning environment based on respect and collaboration is created. You see collegial learning as a matter of course. You value and create good conditions for collaboration and build good relationships with students, colleagues, and external contacts.

We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

The City of Stockholm works with competence-based recruitment aimed at considering each person's competence and thereby combating discrimination.