Recreation Center Teacher (Fritidshem) at Strömsbro School, Gävle

Do you want to help make Gävle even better with us? At Gävle Municipality, we work together with dedication to offer our residents a safe and inspiring environment. We offer you a workplace built on trust, where you can develop professionally and grow as a person. We welcome your application!

About Strömsbro School

Strömsbro School is part of the Stigslund principal area. At Strömsbro School, we have approximately 300 students from preschool class to grade 6. The school is staffed by dedicated personnel, and there is a strong interest among everyone in developing the school activities so that students get a solid foundation to stand on. At Strömsbro School, we actively work to increase student attendance. We actively work with relational leadership and students' reading competence in all subjects. Strömsbro School is characterized by good results, well-being, and engagement. The school's ambition is for students to feel safe at school and achieve good academic results. Therefore, preventive work against harassment and bullying is carried out here. The school works to ensure students develop and respect themselves and others.

About the Position

We are now looking for an engaged recreation center teacher (fritidshemslärare) who wants to help shape a safe and meaningful everyday life for our students!

1 position(s).

Responsibilities

As a teacher in our recreation center, you will be responsible for planning and teaching in the recreation center. Together with your colleagues, you contribute to creating a school where everyone feels safe and seen, whether as students, guardians, or staff. The work is performed in collaboration with other educators, student health services, and guardians.

Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Plan, implement, and evaluate teaching in the recreation center according to decided goals and guidelines.
• Create learning activities that promote students' social, physical, and creative development.
• Plan and conduct break activities and outdoor time.

In accordance with Gävle Municipality's value base, you have a good approach, a good ability to collaborate, and value high quality in your work.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who have:

• A teaching degree and teaching license with eligibility to teach in the recreation center.
• Knowledge of the curriculum for primary school as well as for preschool class and the recreation center.
• Good ability to express yourself well in the Swedish language, both orally and in writing.
• Knowledge of and experience working with digital tools.

To succeed in the role, you are:

• Structured: You plan and organize the activity in a thoughtful way and create structures that give students a safe and predictable everyday life in the recreation center.
• Relationship-building: You take initiative in social contexts and build trusting relationships with students, colleagues, and guardians. You have a natural ability to create safety and trust in the group.
• Collaborative: You collaborate without hierarchy in the work team and contribute to a positive and solution-focused work environment. You work closely with both the school and the recreation center to create a holistic experience in the students' day.
• Clear leadership: You show clear and secure leadership where you naturally motivate students and create an environment where they thrive and feel good. You have a good ability to create open dialogue and adapt your language to the situation and target group.
• Flexible: You easily adapt to changed situations and students' different needs. You can switch between planned activities and spontaneous ones, seeing opportunities in the variations of everyday life.

Employment Terms

We warmly welcome your application!

• Type of employment: Permanent position.
• Duration: Permanent, start date: 2026-10-01.
• Working hours: Daytime.

As a final candidate, you must be able to present a police certificate of good conduct for work within schools or preschools. This should not be attached to your application.

What We Offer

You are important to us! As an employee at Gävle Municipality, you have:

• Generous holiday conditions, and as a new employee, you also have the right to paid leave already during your first year of employment.
• Compensation for fitness and exercise when you have been employed for more than three months.
• Several different insurances through our collective agreements, for example, sickness insurance and work injury insurance are included.

Read more about our benefits here: https://www.gavle.se/formaner (https://www.gavle.se/formaner)

Our Value Base

Quality, approach, and collaboration are the most important success factors for solving our mission in the best way. To do the right things and act wisely in our daily lives, it is important that we base ourselves on our jointly stated values.

Read more about us as an employer and what it is like to work at Gävle Municipality here: https://www.gavle.se/jobbahososs (https://www.gavle.se/jobbahososs)

Here you can read more about our organization: https://www.gavle.se/organisation (https://www.gavle.se/organisation)

Gävle Municipality is part of a Finnish administrative area. Therefore, if you speak Finnish in addition to our other competence requirements, it can be an asset.

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