Vacant job

Do you want to work with us?

We are looking for someone who is passionate about developing educational activities with a focus on accessibility and goal achievement for all students.

We are looking for someone who is one of the following: Special needs teacher with a focus on developmental disabilities, primary school teacher for younger grades, or preschool teacher with experience working with students with intellectual disabilities.

Together with our student health team and our educators, you will have the opportunity to work in an activity that is based on the needs of all students and offers challenges to all students based on their respective prerequisites.

In Finspång Municipality, adapted primary school is offered for students in grades 1–9 at Nyhemsskolan. We invest heavily in creative learning environments both indoors and outdoors; we have a nice schoolyard with an associated school forest.

What can we offer you?

As an employee at the adapted primary school, we offer you a varied and interesting job, a role with great opportunities for influence, development, and input.

Your future tasks

Together with your colleagues, you will be responsible for challenging students to learn based on their individual prerequisites. You will teach students in subject areas requiring support, both individually and in groups. You will plan, conduct, and follow up on teaching in close collaboration with student assistants. You will contribute to and participate in the school's development work and supervise employees based on your competence.

You will be part of a work team that works together around the students. The role also requires cooperation with guardians, habilitation services, and in some cases, other authorities.

The role also entails

Mentorship is included in the position, and you will conduct development meetings and participate in network meetings regarding the student.

Together with our student health team and your colleagues, you will have the opportunity here to work in an educational activity that is based on the needs of all students and offers challenges to all students based on their respective prerequisites.

Who are you?

We are looking for you who are a certified teacher with experience and good pedagogical insight. You must have a university education as a special needs teacher with a focus on developmental disabilities, or be a certified primary school teacher for younger grades, or alternatively a preschool teacher. Experience as a special needs teacher or primary school teacher is meritorious.

As a person, you are secure and stable, while simultaneously having a driving and motivating attitude towards your students. You have a positive view of students, based on the belief that all students can and want to learn. You find it easy to collaborate and build relationships with both students, guardians, and colleagues. You have the student at the center and take into account the students' different needs and prerequisites.

You should have experience working with students with disabilities and see opportunities for learning in all moments, whether it is a teaching situation in a group or a transition from one aid to another.

Experience working with students who have visual and hearing impairments, as well as high sign language competence, is meritorious.

We would like you to have competence in AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) and experience with a low-affective approach.

The role requires good ability to communicate and collaborate with many different actors within and outside the activity; therefore, good Swedish is a requirement for the position.

Start date: 2026-08-10 or as agreed.

Great importance is also attached to personal suitability. Welcome with your application!

We would like to receive your application no later than 2026-07-05.

Interviews will be held continuously during the application period. The recruitment process may take longer than usual due to the vacation period.

We drive Finspång forward!

Finspång has a rich and varied offering of culture, unique historical environments, and meeting places. It is a living industrial town with a strong business life and proximity to surrounding cities. Finspång develops through a drive to meet the present and the future. Therefore, the UN's global goals are integrated into the municipality's governance. By acting locally to influence globally, we want to contribute to a sustainable future for people and the environment. As an employee in Finspång Municipality, you are our most important resource. You and your colleagues improve the everyday life of others – every day. Here you have the opportunity to make a difference, provide service to others, and take responsibility for Finspång's development. Together we build pride and joy in work at a workplace characterized by openness and collaboration.

We have a benefits portal through the company Benifex; Fördel Finspång, where all our employees can take advantage of benefits, discounts, and other offers of many different kinds, for example, fitness subsidies.

To provide the best possible service to our municipal residents, we strive for a staff composition that reflects the diversity in Finspång Municipality. Finspång Municipality applies smoke-free working hours.

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For positions within elderly care, activities for persons with disabilities, activities for children and young people, as well as in leadership positions, control of register extracts is included as part of the recruitment process.

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