Vacant job

Stålhamraskolan is a primary school (grades F-6) with approximately 280 students and two classes per grade. The adapted primary school, where students study specific subjects and subject areas, has a student body of approximately 50 students, supported by both teachers and assistants. Stålhamraskolan also has a municipality-wide special education group and students following a Finnish profile. We operate in a multicultural environment and have the privilege of working with people from many different countries, which gives the school immense dynamism. We strive for a safe school environment during lessons, breaks, and leisure time. The Student Health Team (SHT) works to provide the support and assistance needed at both the individual and group levels. At Stålhamraskolan, we actively work with collegial learning to continuously develop our staff and, by extension, the entire school.

Are you a qualified social worker and want to make a difference for our students? We would be delighted if you applied to join us at Stålhamraskolan. We have a parental leave replacement position at 60% starting in September.

Your responsibilities

The role of a school counselor involves collaborating with other school staff to work preventively and health-promotingly to contribute to a good learning and life environment for the school's students. As a school counselor, you work based on proven experience and evidence with psychosocial interventions directly targeted at individual students or groups. You are part of the school's Student Health Team and collaborate with the principal, teaching staff, school nurse, and special education teacher. You work solution-focused and always try to see the positive aspects, building from there.

The responsibilities include preventive interventions where you, as the counselor, are responsible and visible in the operations. You have conversations with individual students and/or groups, as well as potentially with guardians. You are on the schoolyard during breaks as much as possible. You are responsible for the work with, and documentation of, efforts against discrimination and offensive treatment. You participate in the analysis of safety surveys, absence statistics, and conduct absence investigations. You collaborate with social services, youth clinics, youth centers, and field workers.

With us, you have the opportunity to truly make a difference – for many students' futures and in many different ways!

Who are you?

Personal qualities:

• You work towards results by demonstrating reliability and taking responsibility for planning and follow-up of your work.
• You strengthen relationships by helping others, collaborating, following rules and processes, and sharing information.
• You develop, improve, seek solutions, and are driven by your own initiative regarding learning and knowledge.
• Your shared values are evident in your interactions.
• You work long-term with sustainable relationships between students and adults to benefit students' social development.
• You work to strengthen students' sense of security and motivation.
• You are confident in contact with students, parents, and authorities and have good verbal and written communication skills.

Requirements:

• Social work degree (Social worker).
• Good knowledge of the Social Services Act and other relevant laws is required.
• Experience working as a school counselor.
• Knowledge of children and young people, their development, and their situation in society.

Merits:

• Experience working in socio-economically disadvantaged areas.
• Experience working in a multilingual environment.
• Experience in adapted primary schools and/or special education groups, possibly from working within habilitation services.

We place great emphasis on your personal qualities.

We offer you

Stålhamraskolan is located in the Saltskog district of Södertälje. To ensure you have the right conditions to perform your work and enjoy your job, we offer you good cooperation with other colleagues. The municipality organizes joint network meetings for primary schools. The school's leadership works with open doors, keeps students at the center, supports the operations, and sees you as an important puzzle piece in the work to ensure students have a successful school experience.

As an employee of Södertälje Municipality, you are offered a secure employment, good employment terms 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 competence-based recruitment methods to counteract discrimination and promote diversity in the workplace.

We have many positions where we conduct background checks. A certificate of 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.

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