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Jönköping Municipality is a large employer with hundreds of different professional roles. We are growing in tandem with the municipality's development, with more residents, more housing, and a wider range of services. We are always looking for new skills – colleagues with different backgrounds and experiences, united by the common drive to create a better municipality to visit, live, work, and reside in.

Do you want one of the most important and rewarding assignments available? Here, you will inspire joyful learning – every day, all the way. We call it "learning joy".

Your new job

You will work as a special needs teacher at Junedalsskolan. You will be part of our student health team and serve as the link to the work teams. You will be responsible for documentation, pedagogical investigations, direct work with students, and meetings with guardians.

Welcome to us

Junedalsskolan has high ambitions, and we are now looking for you who want to help shape tomorrow's Jönköping. The school consists of approximately 750 students in grades 7–9 and is located in the central parts of Jönköping. We offer proximity to the city center with its facilities and are just a ten-minute walk from Jönköping City Park.

We work to ensure that students reach the peak of their potential according to their own abilities. For students to achieve this, we need good teachers who can motivate and stimulate students' curiosity, as well as have high expectations for their ability to develop. We work around the student with a holistic perspective, where students should feel security, joy, responsibility, and independence, providing a good foundation for learning. At our school, everyone should thrive, feel safe, and experience job satisfaction.

You can read more about our school on our website:

Read more about Junedalsskolan (https://www.jonkoping.se/barn--utbildning/grundskola-anpassad-grundskola-och-fritidshem/grundskolor-och-anpassade-grundskolor-a-o/junedalsskolan-7-9)

Read more about what it is like to work in Jönköping Municipality at jonkoping.se:

Work in Jönköping Municipality (https://www.jonkoping.se/naringslivarbete/jobbaijonkopingskommun.4.74fef9ab15548f0b8001425.html)

Your qualifications

You are trained as a special needs teacher and have good communication skills. You value teamwork and find it easy to collaborate with colleagues, students, and guardians. You therefore see it as a given that your profession is a team effort, and you have a desire to develop together. You are engaged and have positive expectations of the students, challenging and inspiring them to reach their full potential. Furthermore, you are structured and accustomed to driving various tasks and processes, while being solution-focused and able to remain calm in stressful situations. You can also think creatively to develop the school's results. We place great emphasis on personal suitability based on Junedalsskolan's needs and conditions.

Good to know

This position is job-evaluated and falls under base group F.

For more information about the salary range for this position, see:

Salary range and statistics (https://www.jonkoping.se/jobba-hos-oss/jonkopings-kommun-som-arbetsgivare-/lon-och-lonestatistik)

To facilitate the recruitment process, we ask you to attach relevant certificates and diplomas with your application. According to the Education Act, all employees hired within our operations must present a valid extract from the criminal record register. The extract is ordered via the Police Authority under the category for work in schools or preschools:

Order extract from criminal record register (School/Preschool) (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/skola-eller-forskola/)

From March 1, 2026, extended register checks were introduced for persons who are to work with children. This means you will need to submit an additional extract prior to employment. The second extract is ordered via the Police Authority under the category for work with children in other activities than school and childcare:

Order extract from criminal record register (Children in other activities) (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/barn-annan-verksamhet/)

Before employing new staff for our teaching positions, we must ensure that a valid teaching license exists. We therefore ask you to attach a current teaching license obtained from the Swedish National Agency for Education within the last two months. Please log in via the Agency's e-service using the following link:

Retrieve teaching license from the Swedish National Agency for Education (https://login.skolverket.se/idp/lleg-etjanst/select?returnUrl=https://lleg.skolverket.se/)

Selection and interviews may take place before the application deadline has passed.

Want to know more?

Feel free to contact any of the specified contact persons in the advertisement or look up a union representative via the link below.

Here you can find contact details for union representatives at the Department of Education:

Contact details for union representatives (https://www.jonkoping.se/fackligaubf)

Together we make Jönköping Municipality better – for everyone. Come and work with us. Welcome to apply for the position of special needs teacher at Junedalsskolan.

Jönköping Municipality strives to offer an attractive workplace that is free from discrimination and provides equal opportunities for all.

In preparation for the recruitment process, we have taken a stand regarding recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore kindly but firmly decline all calls regarding advertising and recruitment assistance.