Vacant job

Description

Kvarnbergsskolan is a school for grades F-6. The school has been newly built and renovated and was ready for occupancy before the 2020/21 school year. It is an expanding school with approximately 330 students today. The school has four after-school care departments, three departments for grades F-2, and one department for older students in grades 4-6. The school offers excellent learning environments, including a movement room, music room, art/technology room, and craft rooms.

The school's core values are built on four keywords: together, safety, knowledge, and joy. These values are created by everyone involved in the school and strive to be applied in both conversations with students, staff, and guardians, as well as in practical actions. Kvarnbergsskolan is known for its relaxed "we-feeling," where the keyword "together" is strongly rooted in the operations. We are now looking for a new special needs teacher to join our wonderful, competent, and engaged student health team at Kvarnbergsskolan. We welcome your application!

Responsibilities

As a special needs teacher, you work preventively and promotively, but also with remedial measures, providing targeted support to students. You work together with other colleagues in the student health team: special needs teachers, special educators, counselors, school nurses, and school psychologists, as well as educators at Kvarnbergsskolan. Together with our student health team, you plan and drive the work regarding students in need of special support. You are skilled at supporting teachers in making adjustments in the school's various learning environments and have good competence regarding how to work with and organize special support.

You have a genuine interest in the children's situation and are attuned to the needs of different students, possessing a flexible working style. You should be able to meet with guardians and lead meetings both together with colleagues and independently. Experience with or training in working with children with various functional variations is meritorious. The position includes mentoring teachers and supporting the school's various pedagogical work groups from a special educational perspective.

You want to drive active improvement work regarding how we organize teaching so that all students' needs are met. You are well-read and interested in pedagogical research and are generous in sharing your knowledge with others.

Qualifications

Subject to necessary decisions, we are looking for a licensed special needs teacher.

As a person, you need to have a good ability to plan and structure by setting clear goals for teaching and support measures based on students' individual needs, and to follow up on results continuously. You should understand how students learn in different ways and adapt methods according to their unique needs, strengths, and difficulties, as well as analyze and improve your own teaching based on student development and feedback. You should have a good ability to motivate students to overcome challenges and dare to try new things. You take initiative and make decisions to drive the work forward, even in complex or difficult situations.

You should have experience working with various analysis and mapping materials to be able to make correct pedagogical assessments.

We Offer

Read more about our benefits and what it is like to work in Karlstad Municipality at karlstad.se/jobbahososs.

Information about salary levels can be found here (select "View salary statistics"). This recruitment concerns AID code 401016.

We warmly welcome your application!

When you apply for a job with us, you will be asked to provide your CV and answer a number of questions where we ask you to describe your competence in the requested area. This means you should not attach a cover letter as part of your application.

About Karlstad Municipality

The Child and Youth Administration is responsible for preschool and school for approximately 13,200 children and students and is the municipality's largest administration with just over 2,400 employees. We have preschools, family daycares, open preschools, preschool classes, primary schools, adapted primary schools, after-school care, and a cultural school, and we also work with child and student health issues. We equip children for the future.

Do you want to be part of creating tomorrow's Karlstad? With us in the Karlstad Municipality group, you can make a real difference. Here, every employee is an important part of the whole, and together we help each other realize our vision of "A better life in the Sun City." Come and grow with us!

Other Information

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