Special Teacher for Flexible Special Support in Stenungsund Municipality

Stenungsund, a good society with hope for the future, development centered on people and nature.

Stenungsund Municipality is an expanding coastal municipality with approximately 28,030 residents, a strong business community, residential environments close to the sea, and good transport links. The municipality has a well-developed cultural and association life, as well as excellent opportunities for outdoor activities and recreation. Holistic approach, openness, participation, and transparency are the municipality's key words.

The municipality's vision is to reach 35,000 residents by 2035. Stenungsund Municipality is part of the Gothenburg Region Municipalities Association, which serves as a forum for cooperation and knowledge exchange, as well as several other inter-municipal collaborations.

The municipality is organized into an administration with four sectors. The Education Sector includes preschools and primary schools with associated school-age childcare, adapted primary schools, adapted upper secondary schools, adult education, as well as Culture and Leisure.

Stenungsund Municipality cherishes the rights of children and young people and works to ensure they have a good upbringing environment and excellent opportunities for education and work or other activities. In the municipality, we educate global citizens who are well-equipped for all of tomorrow's challenges.

Stenungsund's primary schools work systematically to organize special support in line with our core ideas: Inclusion, Professional Leadership, and Positive Learning Identities. Part of this organization is our team, Flexible Special Support, which works with complementary measures across the entire primary school, supporting both students and staff, in close collaboration with teachers, principals, and student health teams.

We are now looking for you to join Flexible Special Support as our new special teacher. The team also includes a school psychologist, teachers, a special educator, and our school dog. Flexible Special Support is part of the Central Child and Student Health Services, making you a close colleague to school counselors, school nurses, school psychologists, study and career counselors, speech therapists, special educators with specialized competencies, the school social team, and school librarians.

1 position(s).

RESPONSIBILITIES

Do you want to make a real difference in finding pathways to learning through close work with students, guardians, teachers, and other colleagues? Are you a special teacher seeking new challenges in a team-based role?

Our cross-professional team is looking for you, bringing positive energy and, like us, being attracted by the variety of tasks surrounding our students in need of special support. As a team and profession, the mission is to plan, operationally implement, follow up, and evaluate teaching and pathways to teaching for students, starting from the regular classroom in the municipality's primary schools. The work is carried out in close collaboration with the student's principal and teachers, special educator, and other student health services at the school.

Common tasks include leading and driving; teaching, supervision, and collaboration/cooperation with guardians and other important persons/actors regarding the student. Other tasks may include assisting with assessment and parts of investigations regarding special support in collaboration with teachers and the school's special educator. In addition to classrooms and school facilities, the work takes place based on needs and flexibility also in our hub, Doterödsvillan, the student's home, or outdoors. To maintain and develop specialized competence in designing inclusive special support, it is part of the role to stay updated on research in the field. Having active co-leadership in the team's and primary school's systematic quality work is a given.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for you who are a special teacher with a teaching license. Merits include subject competence in Swedish and English, qualifications for older age groups, and experience across a broad age span.

To make a real difference for students, develop, and become your best professional self, we believe you:

• Enjoy challenges and see possibilities in complex situations
• Have a secure and calm leadership style with good self-awareness
• Work relationally and create trusting encounters with students, guardians, and colleagues
• Are flexible and thrive in a daily life where no day is like the other
• Have experience in student health work and collaboration in cross-professional teams
• Have knowledge of how teaching is designed based on needs and have a low-affective approach to handling situations
• Want to work close to students and build positive learning identities
• See the value in varied learning environments, including outdoor pedagogy
• Are non-hierarchical, solution-focused, and believe in the power of collaboration

You need to have a driver's license and feel comfortable working in an environment where a school dog also works a few times a week.

Personal suitability is highly valued. We warmly welcome your application!

Employment type: Permanent position.
Duration: Start date: As agreed. Selection and interviews are conducted continuously, so do not wait with your application.

We strive for a balanced gender distribution and see diversity as a strength, welcoming applicants from different backgrounds.

In connection with the recruitment process, we have taken a stand regarding recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore expressly decline contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.

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For salary ranges, we refer to our website: http://www.stenungsund.se/lonestatistik (http://www.stenungsund.se/lonestatistik)

If salary ranges are missing for the current position, you are referred to contact the responsible manager as stated in the advertisement.

Background checks may be conducted before employment.

We warmly welcome your application!