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Warm welcome to Forshaga Municipality!

We are approximately 1,100 employees whose common mission is to create a great place to live, work, and thrive. In our vision "Forshaga Municipality 2040 – warm welcome", the principles behind human rights are at the center. Here, everyone should feel welcome, safe, and included. Together, we make a difference for our residents – every day!

Forshaga Municipality is part of the Karlstad region in southern Värmland, beautifully located along the Klarälven river. Around 11,500 residents live here, with easy access to nature, leisure activities, services, and culture. With us, you have the opportunity to live a secure life rich in experiences at your own pace. Together, we create a place with its heart in the right place to come home to!

We want to be an attractive employer where you, as an employee, thrive and feel pride, engagement, and involvement. We want to offer you development opportunities and employment conditions so that you want to stay and develop with us. As an employee, you have access to a range of benefits for health, wellness, and leave to ensure a good balance between work and leisure.

We are approximately 350 colleagues within the Child and Education Administration working across four school areas with children and students aged 1–16. We work to ensure that all children and young people have a good learning environment where they feel safe and are given the opportunity to achieve good results. Welcome to one of our four school areas: Lärcenter, Skived, Ullerud, and Grossbol.

Description

School Area Lärcenter has a primary school, an adapted primary school, and a leisure center. We are a grades 1–9 school with approximately 430 students. We want to be an attractive employer where employees thrive and feel pride, engagement, and involvement. We want to offer development opportunities and employment conditions so that our employees want to stay and develop with us. As an employee, you have access to a range of benefits for health, wellness, and leave to ensure a good balance between work and leisure.

Responsibilities

You will be part of our Student Health Services, where the principal, special needs educator, study and career counselor, social worker, and school nurse collaborate in preventive, promoting, and remedial work. Other partners include staff, guardians, the school psychologist, and external collaboration partners. You will work at the individual, group, and organizational levels, e.g., supervising staff, individual conversations, and classroom work. We place great emphasis on all student health staff being visible and close to operations in our school.

Qualifications

Degree in Social Work, Therapy, or other equivalent education. Experience within the relevant fields is meritorious. Great importance is placed on personal suitability.

Conditions

Fixed-term appointment (100%) during the period 2026-10-15 to 2027-07-15.

If offered employment within preschool, school, and youth and leisure activities, you are required by the Education Act to show an extract from the criminal record. You must request the extract yourself from the National Police Board using the form "Extract from the Criminal Record" in the form archive on the police website.

Selection and interviews will take place continuously, and the position may be filled before the last application date.

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