Vacancy: Substitute School Counselor – Student Health Services, Luleå Municipality

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We are delighted that you are interested in working with us at the Student Health Services! One of our employees is entering a new phase in life, and we need a substitute for the upcoming school year.

Our mission is to support the principal and the local student health team, and to provide our students in Luleå Municipality with the support they need to reach their full potential. The Student Health Services consist of school counselors, school nurses, school doctors, specialists in special education, and school psychologists.

Do you also want to contribute to a Luleå and a school for all? Then you are welcome to apply for this exciting substitute position as a school counselor within the Student Health Services!

With the heart of every student, we develop faith in the future. Together we make a difference!

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Job Responsibilities

The school counselor contributes psychosocial expertise to the work of the Student Health Services, always with a focus on the school reality. As a school counselor, you contribute to students achieving knowledge goals and removing obstacles to student learning. The work takes place in close collaboration with students, guardians, educators, other school staff, and school management, requiring both the ability to work independently and to collaborate in a team.

Your main tasks consist of counseling and guidance in contact with students and their parents, as well as relevant school staff. You will be part of the schools' local student health teams and participate in mapping and assessments regarding individual students, as well as providing support in contacts with other operations/agencies and support forms that society can offer.

You will primarily work in a promoting and preventive manner, but also in an interventionist manner from a student health perspective at the individual, class, and school levels. You are offered a thorough introduction and thereafter have support in your work via a senior counselor, as the work is sometimes complex.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who have a degree in social work (sociologist). It is meritorious if you have experience working with children and young people and within social services. You have good knowledge of the needs of children and young people and the laws governing social child care. A driver's license and access to a private car are required for the role; compensation is provided.

You who apply for the job are secure, relationship-building, analytical, and creative. You have the courage to stand by your assessments. Building relationships and collaborating with others is an important part of the role as a school counselor, as is being a problem solver.

We apply competency-based recruitment with a focus on specific skills and characteristics required to succeed in the role and to ensure an objective assessment.

The position is a substitute during the school year 2026/2027, starting as soon as possible. Workplace: Stadsöskolan (middle school), Öhemsskolan, Mariebergsskolan.

If you become relevant for the substitute position, you will need to show a clean extract from the criminal record registry and the suspicion registry.

We warmly welcome your application!

Type of Employment: Fixed-term employment.
Duration: 6 months or longer, ending: 2027-06-25.

Luleå Municipality is one of Norrbotten's largest employers with strong faith in the future. We work to create a growing and vibrant municipality with room for 100,000 inhabitants. Our goal is a sustainable society with quality of life for both today's and future residents of Luleå. Here, we all play an important role - every day, all year round, for Luleå.

We strive for equality and see diversity as a strength. We welcome employees with different backgrounds and work for an accessible working environment for all. Luleå Municipality sees full-time work as a right and part-time work as an opportunity.

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