Special Educator at Central Child and Student Health Services in Ronneby

Now is your chance to join us! We work together with heart and quality to provide the best possible service to the residents of Ronneby Municipality. Ronneby is beautifully located between sea and forest in the middle of Blekinge. Furthermore, we have good transport connections by car, train, and plane.

Your 2,500 future colleagues are skilled at meeting future challenges and our residents' increasing expectations through digitalization, collaboration, and engaged leadership. Together with you, we make Ronneby even better!

Read more about Ronneby Municipality here (https://ronneby.se/naringsliv--arbete/arbeta-hos-oss.html).

What We Offer

The Education Administration in Ronneby has focused on collegial learning! The operations should be permeated by collegial learning and methods based on scientific grounds and proven experience. That is how we achieve success! At our workplace, all employees should be well aware of our strengths and cherish them, while continuously developing. We do this together!

In the Education Administration, we work according to the "red thread," a common view on development and learning with a democratic value base from preschool, primary school, adapted school, to upper secondary and adult education. Take the chance to work in a municipality that focuses on the core of education!

Job Responsibilities

We are now looking for a special educator for Central Child and Student Health Services. This is a position for 1 person.

As a special educator with us, you work with monitoring the school attendance of children and students placed in foster homes by Ronneby Municipality. The work involves close collaboration with social services, foster homes, receiving schools, and other actors to ensure that every student has access to an equal education and the right support (SURF).

The position is independent and places high demands on structure, initiative, and collaboration skills.

A part of the role also involves participating in our development work towards early interventions together with principals and student health teams, for example, as a participant in one of our teams at schools and providing supervision to staff. It also includes some planning and implementation of overarching professional networks in the municipality.

Your main tasks include:

• Monitor and analyze school attendance and goal achievement for placed children and students.
• Lead and contribute to collaboration meetings.
• Ensure that appropriate pedagogical support measures are planned, implemented, and followed up.
• Document and provide feedback to relevant parties.
• Develop collaboration together with social services.
• Contribute knowledge from a school perspective.
• Report and follow up results in the respective committees.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who:

• Are trained as a special educator.
• Have experience working within the school system.
• Have good knowledge of regulatory documents and current research in the special educational field.
• Have good knowledge of social services.

As a person, you are:

• Receptive and have good collaboration skills.
• Analytical and solution-focused.
• Communicative and confident in your professional role.

You have a genuine commitment to the development and learning of children and students, as well as an inclusive approach in your work. We are looking for you who want to make a difference for children and young people in particularly vulnerable life situations!

Note: By law, a valid extract from the police criminal record is required before appointment. Read more about the criminal record extract (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/skola-eller-forskola/).

Application and Terms

Salary: Monthly salary.
Employment type: Permanent position.
Duration: Permanent, start date: 2026-09-01 or as agreed.

Important about the application process: Ronneby Municipality has removed the cover letter from the application process. Instead, you will answer a number of questions where you describe your competence in the requested area. In the selection process, we will use these answers as a complement to your CV.

For some positions, we conduct background checks on final candidates. Our employees are covered by central collective agreements (HÖK and AB). We apply individual and differentiated salary setting. Read more about salary statistics (https://ronneby.se/naringsliv--arbete/arbeta-hos-oss/lediga-jobb-hos-ronneby-kommun.html).

To ensure quality in the recruitment process and enable good communication with you as an applicant, we ask you to apply via the application link in the advertisement. If you have questions, you are welcome to contact the Personnel Department via [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]).