Vacant job

Wasaskolan is located just next to large green areas with a newly renovated schoolyard for recess activities. Inside, you will find a well-maintained, rustic school with bright premises, ample natural light, and a brand-new cafeteria. We also have a nice school library with a trained librarian where students can sit and read or borrow books. Wasaskolan is a grades F-9 school with approximately 520 students, as well as an adapted primary school that is expanding from grades 7–9 to grades 4–9. With us, you will meet a large student health team, good administration, and maintenance staff. All of this is to ensure that you, as a teacher, have the best support around the classroom and teaching. Together, the approximately 80 staff members working at the school form a strong team. At Wasaskolan, we actively work with collegial learning to continuously develop our employees and, by extension, the entire school.

We are now looking for a special needs teacher focusing on Intellectual Disability (ID) who, together with our staff in the adapted primary school, will teach our students in grades 6-9. The main task will be to teach our students who are studying subjects, but it may also be that part of the teaching is for our students studying subject areas.

Your Responsibilities

You are responsible for the teaching process together with other teachers for the students who are studying subjects. You understand the importance of teaching being creative and stimulating, while also resting on research and proven methods. You plan, organize, and conduct the teaching individually and together with your colleagues. You are flexible and have good collaboration skills and a willingness to work together with other staff so that students can reach their full potential. Together with the others, you create a classroom environment characterized by security, trust, and respect.

Teachers in the adapted primary school are part of a work team where you, together with your colleagues, plan, teach, supervise, and document based on the curriculum.

You organize and lead lessons which are adapted for students within ID and autism spectrum to provide good conditions for learning. You collaborate closely with colleagues regarding teaching and planning of operations.

You also participate in the school's Student Health Team (EHT) and, together with a colleague, are responsible for part of the documentation written for the students in the adapted primary school.

Who are you?

Personal qualities:

• You are professional in your role, take responsibility, are engaged, motivated, and contribute to the work with continuous improvements.
• You collaborate and develop together with others where you contribute with your knowledge and experience.
• Together with your colleagues, you always want to find new solutions to give students the support needed to create an accessible learning environment characterized by security, study peace, trust, and respect.
• You are interested in working with students with functional variations and can adapt your teaching to this target group.

Requirements:

• You are a licensed primary school teacher.
• You have a special needs teaching degree with a focus on intellectual disability.
• You have knowledge and experience of alternative augmentative communication with sign support as well as compensatory teaching materials.
• You are well acquainted with the curriculum of the adapted primary school.
• You have good ability to express yourself in speech and writing in Swedish.

Merits:

• You are well acquainted with the operational system Prorenata.
• You have experience writing pedagogical assessments and action plans.
• You can work with and write extra adaptations within the area of the adapted primary school.
• Several years of experience in the profession.

We place great importance on your personal qualities.

We offer you

As an employee of Södertälje Municipality, you are offered a secure employment, good employment conditions and working environment, competence development, and several benefits. Please read more about us on our website and for more information about our benefits: https://www.sodertalje.se/kommun-och-politik/jobba-hos-oss/formaner/ (https://www.sodertalje.se/kommun-och-politik/jobba-hos-oss/formaner/)

Welcome to us!

Other

Selection and interviews may take place continuously during the application period.

Södertälje Municipality works with competency-based recruitment methodology to counteract discrimination and promote diversity in the workplace.

We have many positions where we conduct a register check. A certificate of good conduct (criminal record and suspicion register) from the Swedish Police Authority may therefore need to be presented by the candidate before a decision on employment is made.

Employment with us may involve placement in a security class. A security clearance with register check according to the Security Protection Act (2018:585) may therefore be carried out before a decision on employment is made. For some of our security-class tasks, Swedish citizenship is required.