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– A job with room for development

Do you want to make a difference for children and young people by contributing to safe learning environments, good health, and increased goal achievement? We are now looking for a school counselor who wants to be part of the schools' student health work and, together with students, guardians, and colleagues, create good conditions for learning, development, and well-being.

Welcome to us!

As a school counselor in Krokom Municipality, you will become part of the central Child and Student Health Service – a unit with approximately 25 employees from various professions working together for children's learning, development, and health.

Here, you will have the opportunity to work with both individual students and groups, as well as with the school's development work. Together with school leadership, educators, and student health professionals, you will contribute to the schools' promoting, preventive, and remedial work to increase attendance, security, and goal achievement.

We offer a workplace where collaboration, collegial learning, and professional development are a natural part of everyday life. Through our cross-professional approach, you will have access to a broad network of competencies and the opportunity to make a real difference for children and young people throughout the municipality.

The Child and Education Administration has approximately 800 employees. The administration's operations cover the entire municipality and include preschools, primary and lower secondary school (grades F–9), special needs schools, leisure centers, catering and facility maintenance, mother tongue instruction, and library services.

A day as a school counselor in Krokom Municipality

As a school counselor, you work to promote students' health, well-being, and opportunities to achieve educational goals. You contribute knowledge about the social and psychosocial factors that affect students' learning and development and are an important part of the work to create safe and inclusive learning environments.

You are organizationally placed within the central Child and Student Health Service and are simultaneously part of local student health teams at the schools. The work is carried out in close collaboration with the principal, educators, guardians, and other student health professionals.

The assignment includes, among other things:

• conducting support, motivational, and counseling conversations with students
• contributing social and psychosocial competence to the student health work
• providing consultation and supervision to school staff
• collaborating with guardians and external actors
• working on a promoting, preventive, and remedial basis at the individual, group, and organizational levels
• contributing to the school's value-based work and the development of student health efforts

The position involves varied work where you get to combine student-focused interventions with development work at the organizational level.

We offer meaningful work where you have the opportunity to make a difference for children and young people while becoming part of an engaged, competent, and development-oriented organization.

Your qualifications

Requirements for the position

• Social Work degree (Socionom)
• Experience working with children and young people
• Good ability to express yourself in Swedish, both orally and in writing
• Good knowledge of legislation governing school operations, confidentiality, and public administration
• Category B driver's license and access to a car

Personal qualities

As a person, you are calm, secure, and responsible. You have an inclusive approach and a good ability to build trusting relationships with students, guardians, and colleagues. You are confident in the role of conversation leader and can meet people with warmth and sensitivity while leading conversations forward in a structured and professional manner.

You have an analytical approach and the ability to see both the big picture and the details. You translate analysis into action and contribute to the development of the operations. You have good collaboration skills and enjoy working both independently and together with others.

The following are meritorious

• Experience working as a school counselor
• Experience in student health work in schools
• Experience in supervision, consultation, or development work
• Experience collaborating with social services, healthcare, or other external actors

Other

Great importance will be attached to personal suitability.

Other information

The position is a permanent full-time employment with a start date according to agreement.

We apply individual and differentiated salary setting.

In connection with the recruitment process, we have taken a stance on recruitment channels and marketing. Therefore, we kindly decline contact from recruiters and salespeople.

Greetings from your future manager

As the Head of Student Health, it is important to me that we have a workplace where people feel welcome, respected, and significant. I believe in the power of good relationships, professional collaboration, and a work climate where we support each other and value different experiences and perspectives.

As a school counselor, you meet people in different situations and contexts. Therefore, I value the ability to create security, build trusting relationships, and simultaneously contribute to the school's joint development. Here, you will become part of an engaged and competent team where we work together to give children and young people the best conditions for learning, development, and well-being.

I look forward to welcoming a new colleague who wants to contribute their knowledge, commitment, and professional perspective to our joint work.

Warmly welcome with your application!

Anna Hallberg, Head of Student Health

Union representatives can be reached through the municipality's customer center, 0640-161 00.

Welcome with your application!

Welcome to Krokom Municipality – a place for growth, development, and confidence in the future.

Krokom, the municipality in the middle of Jämtland

Krokom Municipality's borders stretch from the shores of Lake Storsjön in the south, to the vast and wild mountains in the north, and in the east, the large forests of the northern interior begin. Here live approximately 15,700 inhabitants, in the middle of Jämtland County, with proximity to good communications to the rest of Sweden. Here there are fantastic opportunities for a rich cultural and outdoor life. People move here and want to stay, because here life itself takes place. The municipality is part of a Sami administrative area, which means that we work to strengthen the Sami language, make the culture visible, and give the Sami people influence.