Vacant job

Child and Student Health Services is a central administrative department for the child and student health work in Gotland's schools.

At Child and Student Health Services, school doctors, school nurses, psychologists, counselors, physiotherapists, and audiologists, optometrists, speech therapists, and special educators work together. The primary mission of Child and Student Health Services is health promotion and prevention. Our common statutory main task is to support students' development to meet the school's knowledge and social goals. The Medical Intervention of Student Health (EMI) also has the task of offering health checks to students, helping students with simpler healthcare interventions, and working according to our medical basic program.

Child and Student Health Services is a well-functioning and driven operation that wants to give every employee the opportunity for personal and professional growth by providing a workplace with community, responsiveness, and valuing initiative, engagement, and responsibility. We work with evidence-based methods such as PAX in School, ABC Parent Group (all children at the center), and the conversation method MI (motivational interviewing).

You will be part of our counselor group, which consists of 17 counselors. We have regular professional group meetings as well as various team meetings focusing on collegial exchange, equity, quality, and development work. The counselor group is led by its own unit manager. We offer a wellness hour and wellness allowance, and we have regular organized common wellness and well-being activities.

We are now looking for a school counselor for a permanent position.

Your responsibilities

The role of counselor includes adding psychosocial competence as support in the school's pedagogical work and in the overall planning of the student health work. You work to ensure that your knowledge of students' general psychosocial health and social situation is utilized in the work of student health and the school.

As a counselor, you contribute knowledge to the school about risk and protective factors for students' health, social situation, learning, and development, as well as provide knowledge about society's support systems. The role also includes contributing to the work on the school's structure and organization regarding values and equal treatment.

At the principal's request, the counselor investigates and assesses the social and psychosocial situation of individual students, among other things as a basis for decisions on special support, when drawing up action plans, and prior to admission to special primary and secondary schools.

The counselor's work also includes providing support, motivational, crisis, investigative, and advisory conversations to individual students and their families related to the school situation. You also provide supervision and consultation to the school's other staff. The counselor works together with the school doctor, school nurse, psychologist, and others in the school's student health team, which is led by the principal.

Who are you?

We are looking for you who have studied the social work program or another university education that the employer finds equivalent. The position requires that you have a driver's license and access to your own car. It is an advantage if you have experience from similar assignments.

We are looking for you who are solution-focused, proactive, independent, have good self-awareness, and teamwork skills. Great importance will be placed on personal suitability.

Interviews for the position will be held on an ongoing basis.

Why choose Region Gotland?

We are the island's largest employer – with over 200 different professions and 7,000 employees in Sweden's only combined region and municipality. Together we are developing a sustainable, safe, and thriving Gotland for everyone who lives on and visits the island.

On Gotland, there is a rich cultural life, magnificent nature, and a creative entrepreneurial spirit. Over 61,000 people have chosen to call Gotland their home, year-round. Are you not one of us yet, but curious to become one? Read more about life on the island at www.gotland.com/flytta-hit (http://www.gotland.com/flytta-hit).

We value our employees and are proud of our benefits. Read more at www.gotland.se/formaner (http://www.gotland.se/formaner).

On the Instagram account @viarregiongotland you can follow our employees and see the breadth of our different operations.

How we recruit

We work according to a competency-based recruitment method and therefore place great emphasis on personal suitability in accordance with the competencies described in the advertisement. In this way, we also work actively to counter discrimination.

We are keen on safety and quality in our recruitments, and you may therefore be subject to checks before employment. If this is relevant, you will receive more information from the recruiter. ID documents and police record certificate must always be presented.

The position is filled subject to the condition that it does not need to be offered to employees with priority rights.