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About the workplace - Skolfam

Skolfam is a working model designed to strengthen the school results for children placed in foster care. Skolfam in Gothenburg is a collaboration between the Primary and Secondary Schools Authority and the Social Services Authorities. For more information about the working model, see www.skolfam.se.

Skolfam within the Primary and Secondary Schools Authority currently has 24 employees, consisting of special needs teachers and psychologists. These professionals work in close collaboration with social secretaries from the city's four social services authorities.

We are looking for a special needs teacher who wants to work in a cross-professional team within a group of special needs teachers and psychologists, where high competence and great engagement are the norm. We offer you an stimulating and varied assignment where your skills and experience are significant. Your employment as a special needs teacher will be with the Skolfam unit in the Primary and Secondary Schools Authority, but your physical workplace will primarily be located at one or more of the city's social service offices.

Job Responsibilities

As a special needs teacher at Skolfam, you work in a team for each child together with a psychologist, the child's social secretary, and the responsible foster care secretary. At Skolfam, we work systematically to increase the child's participation, but the tasks largely involve working with the adults surrounding the children. The team's mission is to make the schooling of children placed in foster care as successful as possible, together with school staff and foster parents.

Together with a psychologist colleague, you will conduct assessments and analyses of the child's cognitive and academic abilities as well as mental health. The assessment from these mappings is used as a basis for identifying the child's strengths and any potential support needs. The child's development is followed up during continuous meetings throughout their primary and secondary school years, involving the Skolfam team, the school, and the foster home. You will be responsible for coordinating, leading, documenting, and planning related to investigations and follow-up meetings.

Follow-up meetings take place primarily digitally. Therefore, you need to be confident using video calls as a tool and see opportunities for building relationships in this meeting format.

You will also have physical meetings both within and outside the municipality. The work may occasionally involve travel outside office hours and overnight stays. For car travel, we use the city's vehicles.

Qualifications

Requirements

• Licensed teacher with further education as a special needs teacher.
• Experience working in primary and secondary school (F–9)
• Experience with pedagogical assessments
• Experience working with standardized test materials in areas such as language, reading, and mathematics
• Experience analyzing and translating results into pedagogical recommendations and interventions
• Valid driver's license (Category B)

Merits

• Experience working with children placed in foster care or children in vulnerable life situations
• Experience collaborating with social services
• Experience in cross-professional work
• Experience in consultative work towards schools
• Experience in supervision, especially in cross-professional contexts
• Experience working in Skolfam

Personal Competencies

You take responsibility for your own tasks and the group's tasks. You think about those we serve and their best interests. You plan, organize, and prioritize work effectively. You ensure that work is completed on time and follow up on results.

You are friendly and helpful to others, even in stressful situations. You show respect for everyone you meet at work. You are inviting and positive. You work to ensure that the student/client/patient gets what they need.

You work well with others by listening, showing interest, and respect. You understand the common mission and work to make it as successful as possible. You bring new ideas and perspectives to the job and to problem-solving. You are curious, encourage dialogue and questions, and can see more than one possible solution. Your creativity can be put into practice and leads to results.

We welcome your application!

Other Information

As an employee in our authority, you are offered, among other things, wellness benefits, bicycle allowance, and employee support.

According to the Education Act, extracts from the police criminal record must be presented by individuals before they are employed in preschool activities, schools, and school-age childcare. You can order this from the Police website.

In connection with this recruitment, we have decided on recruitment channels and therefore decline further offers of competence mediation, advertising, and recruitment assistance.

We only accept applications via our recruitment system in accordance with GDPR.

About Us

We are creating the future in Gothenburg – one lesson at a time

Every day, thousands of children and young people meet in our schools – with them, we shape Gothenburg's future. In the Primary and Secondary Schools Authority, we are 10,000 engaged employees working together to ensure all students succeed and grow, regardless of background or conditions. You have an important role in creating an equitable school with high quality, where you both develop and develop the operations. You build knowledge, community, and hope for the future together with your colleagues. With us, you get to make a difference – for real.

Gothenburg's Primary and Secondary Schools Authority is responsible for the city's nearly 140 municipal schools, from preschool class to grade 9, adapted primary school, leisure centers, and cultural schools. Welcome to work close to the forest, the city, or the sea. We are Gothenburg.