Vacant job

Description

Do you want to work closely with students and contribute to their health, security, and development in everyday life? With us, you will become an important part of the student health team and have the opportunity to make a real difference for children and young people. We are now looking for an engaged counselor who wants to develop together with us and make an impact in the daily lives of children and young people.

Approximately 300 students from preschool class to grade 6 attend Kvarnbergsskolan. The school is centrally located in Karlstad with good opportunities for both learning and varied outdoor activities.

Our operations are characterized by the keywords together, knowledge, security, and joy. We actively work for an inclusive environment where all students have the opportunity to develop based on their prerequisites.

Job Responsibilities

The position is located at Kvarnbergsskolan where you will work as a school counselor. Up to 40% of the position may, if necessary, be distributed centrally within Learning and Health, which means that you will also contribute to a broader student health effort.

As a school counselor with us, you work both preventively and promotively in close collaboration with school management, the student health team, and other staff. You contribute psychosocial competence as support in the pedagogical work and in the development of the school's operations.

The assignment includes, among other things:

• contributing knowledge about students' psychosocial health and social situation
• being a support to teachers and other staff in student-related matters
• working with the school's value base and equal treatment
• providing supervision and consultation to staff
• collaborating with external actors and contributing knowledge about society's support systems
• conducting support, motivational, advisory, and crisis conversations with students and guardians
• investigate and assess students' social and psychosocial situations as a basis for decisions on special support

Qualifications

We are looking for you who are educated as a social worker. We view positively if you have experience working with children and young people, but we value your personal suitability and engagement just as highly. You express yourself well in Swedish, both orally and in writing, and can document your work in a professional manner.

We are looking for you who are self-initiating and take responsibility for driving your work forward. At the same time, you have good cooperation skills and thrive in close collaboration with colleagues in the student health team.

You are sensitive, relationship-building, and have a professional approach towards students, guardians, and colleagues. We value that you have a genuine commitment to the development of children and young people and want to contribute to a secure and inclusive school environment.

Information about the recruitment

Due to the summer vacation, we will begin the selection and interviews in early August, hence the longer application period.

What we offer

We offer you pleasant and competent colleagues who are passionate about school development and student health work. You will also receive supervision and access to professional networks for experience exchange and competence development.

Read more about our benefits and what it is like to work in Karlstad Municipality at karlstad.se/jobbahososs (https://karlstad.se/jobbahososs).

Information about salary levels can be found here (#) (select "View salary statistics"). This recruitment concerns AID code 352010.

We warmly welcome your application!

When you apply for a job with us, you will be asked to provide your CV and answer a number of questions where we ask you to describe your competence in the requested area. This means that you should not attach a cover letter as part of your application.

About Karlstad Municipality

The Child and Youth Administration is responsible for preschool and school for approximately 13,200 children and students and is the municipality's largest administration with just over 2,400 employees. We have preschools, family daycares, open preschools, preschool classes, primary schools, adapted primary schools, after-school centers, and cultural schools, and we also work with child and student health issues. We equip children for the future.

Do you want to be part of creating tomorrow's Karlstad? With us in the Karlstad Municipality group, you can make a real difference. Here, every employee is an important part of the whole, and together we help each other to realize our vision of "A better life in the Sun City." Come and grow with us!

Other information

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process and simplify communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application through our recruitment systems and not via email or paper format. We decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this advertisement.

If you have protected personal data, you should not register your application documents in our recruitment system nor send them via email. Instead, contact the municipality's switchboard at 054-540 00 00 for further handling.