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Skurup Municipality seeks Student Assistant for Adapted Primary School

Skurup Municipality has just over 17,000 inhabitants and is located in a beautiful natural setting on the southern coast of Scania, with excellent transport links to Malmö, Ystad, Lund, and Copenhagen. In our municipality, residents enjoy a peaceful life with the city close by. The local business sector is thriving, and inward migration to the municipality is increasing.

1,200 employees keep the wheels turning every day, fully committed to the well-being of the citizens. With us, you help build an attractive municipality where dialogue, openness, and good treatment permeate the organization. We are proud of our short decision-making paths. Together, we make a difference!

Skurup's Vision 2045: With heart and commitment to quality of life, security, and development, we create the place where we live, work, and grow – together. Skurup Municipality is the place for the good life.

Skurup Municipality's adapted primary school is a newly launched operation that will move into its own premises in autumn 2026. Here, we will teach approximately 20 students in grades 1–9 within subject and subject-oriented adapted primary school. Our team consists of special education teachers, student assistants, and leisure-time pedagogues – all with a common goal: to create an accessible, individualized, and inspiring learning environment where every student has the opportunity to grow based on their abilities.

Our school is a new initiative featuring state-of-the-art facilities, adapted learning environments, and a strong focus on inclusive teaching. We work cross-curricularly and with clear structure to create security and learning for students with various functional variations.

1 position(s).

Job Responsibilities

As a student assistant in adapted primary school within subject areas 7-9 and the leisure-time center, you will:

• Support students in lessons, during breaks, at the leisure-time center, and during transitions throughout the day.
• Actively participate in all types of teaching, including swimming/bathing and the subject of physical education, as well as cycling on excursions.
• Be flexible, read, and follow the students' needs in the moment.
• Handle challenging behavior with a low-affective approach.
• Act as a spokesperson between the student and their surroundings during the school day and leisure-time activities if needed.
• Help and support with personal care such as toilet visits, dressing/undressing, meal situations, which may involve lifting the student.
• Perform self-care tasks which may include administering emergency medication, tube feeding, and handling catheters.
• Work closely with teachers and the student health team to create security and continuity.
• Contribute to students feeling seen, included, and motivated.
• Be involved in planning, documentation, and evaluation of the pedagogical work.
• Collaborate with colleagues in the daily work regarding students' needs.
• Work for good cooperation between school, leisure-time center, and home.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who:

• Have an education as a childcare worker, student assistant, support pedagogue, or equivalent education.
• Enjoy being outdoors a lot with a single student, being flexible, and conducting learning simultaneously.
• Have experience working with children and young people with intellectual disabilities and ADHD/Autism (NPF) as well as competence in Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC).
• Have previous experience with self-care and personal care.
• Have a good ability to build relationships and work with a low-affective approach.
• Are structured, responsible, and secure in your professional role.
• Have experience working with teaching in school and the leisure-time center.
• Can document, plan, and evaluate together with pedagogues.
• Have an interest in building up and collaborating with colleagues in a team.
• Want to be part of building up an operation where every student gets to succeed.
• Experience working in adapted primary school is highly meritorious.

Employment Terms

• Salary form: Monthly salary.
• Employment form: Fixed-term employment.
• Duration: Start: 2026-08-03, End: 2027-06-15.
• Working hours: Daytime.

To ensure quality in the recruitment process in Skurup Municipality and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally and not via email or paper format.

If you have a decision on protected identity, contact the recruiting manager before applying for the position.

The position will be filled subject to necessary decisions being made.

We warmly welcome your application!

In connection with the recruitment work, Skurup Municipality has taken a stance on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore expressly decline contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.