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Do you want to provide every child and student with a good education? Here is a place for a school counselor with drive, engagement, and initiative – and a daily routine where your contribution truly makes a difference. Welcome to us!

Your new job

You will be part of the student health team and join the school's cross-professional student health team, where you will contribute your psychosocial competence and knowledge. Together with the school management, you will be responsible for the promoting, preventive, and remedial student health work for our students.

The work is primarily health-promoting and preventive and is carried out at the individual, group, and school unit levels to support students' development towards educational goals. As a counselor, you provide support to students, guardians, and the school's other staff. You conduct supportive conversations, observations, social investigations, and assessments, as well as targeted interventions at the group and school unit levels. You are also part of the school's safety group and work actively with safety-building measures and our presence work.

You also have contact with external actors and support functions. You contribute a psychosocial perspective to the operations, which means that all students are given the opportunity to achieve knowledge goals but also thrive and feel good at school. You are a natural part of the operations and the students' daily lives.

The needs of the students and the operations drive the work, which means you need to be flexible in changing situations, but you are offered great opportunities to shape and develop the student health work at the school within the framework of your assignment in a responsive and learning organization.

Welcome to us

Atarpsskolan is a 7–9 grade school with approximately 450 students and 50 employees. We are located 1 mile north of Jönköping, and it is easy to get here using the municipality's public transport.

Here you will find a workplace with dedicated and competent colleagues, where we work according to the Education Administration's core values; community, engagement, and innovation. We care about each other and work to create a workplace where everyone thrives and develops.

We describe our school with three words; joy, safety, and competence, so come and develop further with us!

Read about what it is like to work in Jönköping Municipality on jonkoping.se: https://www.jonkoping.se/naringslivarbete/jobbaijonkopingskommun.4.74fef9ab15548f0b8001425.html (https://www.jonkoping.se/naringslivarbete/jobbaijonkopingskommun.4.74fef9ab15548f0b8001425.html)

Your qualifications

We are looking for you who have a degree in social work. Experience in similar work and knowledge of the school's mission and work in social work with children and young people are meritorious.

It is important that you are communicative, take initiative, and are willing to do even what is on the periphery of the assignment. We wish for you to be a positive person who wants to be involved in developing the school counseling work in our operations.

It is important that you have good cooperation skills and find it easy to establish good relationships with students, guardians, and other staff. You are flexible, engaged, creative, responsive, and empathetic.

Great importance is attached to personal suitability.

Good to know

The position is a parental leave substitute.

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

https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/skola-eller-forskola/ (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 that 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 operations than school and childcare.

https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/barn-annan-verksamhet/ (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/barn-annan-verksamhet/)

Want to know more?

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

Here you find contact details for union representatives at the Education Administration: https://www.jonkoping.se/fackligaubf (https://www.jonkoping.se/fackligaubf)

Together we make Jönköping Municipality better – for everyone. With us, you get more than a job. Welcome to apply for the position as school counselor.