Vacant job

Do you want meaningful tasks that make a difference in people's lives? Welcome to a municipality that is far from mediocre!

The Education Administration is responsible for preschools, leisure centers, primary schools, upper secondary schools, and adapted primary and upper secondary schools. We have just over 3,200 employees at 40 preschools, 22 primary schools, and four upper secondary schools. There is a strong commitment here to ensure that all children and students receive high-quality education, have the opportunity to develop, and reach their full potential. In Botkyrka, we see that success in school is the key to a good life and the strongest protective factor for the future.

The Role and Responsibilities

As a school counselor, you are part of the school's student health team, focusing on promotion, prevention, and intervention, with an emphasis on creating a good environment for students' health, development, and learning based on proven research. Your duties include working preventively and interventionally against bullying, discrimination, and harassment. You conduct supportive and motivational conversations with individual students and groups, conflict resolution talks, and social investigation and mapping work. You engage in values-based work and participate in planning, drafting, and implementing action plans within this area. You are available for advice and consultation on various issues. A natural part of your work involves contact with students, guardians, and staff, as well as collaboration with external agencies outside the school, such as social services, child and adolescent psychiatry, and habilitation services, among others. You set boundaries based on your assignment and prioritize your tasks according to the Swedish National Agency for Education's directives. You participate in the local crisis group together with the school leadership.

You have a natural, respectful attitude towards people's differences and prioritize safe and good relationships, sharing the school's values. You have the ability to independently identify and create opportunities for change and development at the student, group, and organizational levels. You must also be able to handle and prioritize different types of cases and tasks. Flexibility is your motto, and you have a good ability to vary working methods and approaches based on needs.

What We Offer You

An developing job at Alby höjden where you make a real difference! Grindtorpsskolan has a fully developed Student Health Team (EHT) where you are a key part. We collaborate with our neighbor, Kvarnhagsskolan, and hold EHT conferences three times a year together to develop student health across Alby. You are the only counselor at Grindtorp, but you have a colleague at Kvarnhagsskolan whom you can work with when it is time to write plans or in case of a crisis. In addition, you are part of our Social Team (you might know it as the safety team, but we like to come up with fun things for our students, so "Social Team" felt like a better name).

If you are not already a certified YAM instructor, you are welcome to take such training during working hours when you work with us. If you are not already familiar with Botkyrka's violence prevention program TÅGET, you will receive further training in it as well. Keeping the threads so that the school is in sync with TÅGET is an important part of your work with us.

Who You Are

Requirements: - Degree in Social Work (Socionom)

- Very good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written

- Digital competence for documentation and other administrative tasks

It is difficult to say whether experience working as a school counselor is a requirement or a merit. The person you are replacing has had extensive experience and high competence, and we understand that it is naturally difficult to fill anyone's shoes in that regard. However, we truly believe that you need to have experience with systematic quality work, annual calendars, and other important administrative aspects of being a counselor so that we can ensure we do not regress in our development.

Merits: - Experience working as a school counselor

- Good knowledge of the Education Act and the Social Services Act

- Experience with ProRenata

- Experience with DF Respons

- Experience with sociograms

- Experience working in municipal operations

- Other language skills

To thrive in this role, we are looking for you who are relationship-building and collaborative to work preventively and see and understand the individual's needs. You need to be secure in your professional role and have the ability to work in a structured manner.

We will review applications from week 30 due to summer holidays.

For positions at the Education Administration in Botkyrka Municipality, you as a prospective employee will undergo a background check.

Read more about background checks here: https://www.botkyrka.se/bakgrundskontroll (https://www.botkyrka.se/bakgrundskontroll)

About Us

Botkyrka is a municipality full of contrasts where the suburban environment of the big city meets the forests, meadows, lakes, and sea coast of the countryside. Over 100 languages are spoken here, and people from all over the world live and work here.

We offer an inspiring workplace full of opportunities where we together create the best conditions for a sustainable future.

We have good and secure working conditions with collective agreements and several benefits so that you can thrive and develop in your job. Read more here: Our Employer Offer

Other Information

For positions within, for example, healthcare-school-care in Botkyrka Municipality, you as a prospective employee need to show an extract from the Police's criminal record register. Botkyrka Municipality is subject to the principle of public access. This means that application documents are, as a main rule, public documents.

We work with competency-based recruitment to ensure the quality of the recruitment process and thereby counteract discrimination.

We decline contact from recruitment and staffing agencies in connection with this recruitment.