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Jönköping Municipality is a major employer with hundreds of different professional roles. We are growing in tandem with the municipality's development, as the population increases, more housing is built, and services expand. We are always looking for new skills – colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences, united by the common drive to create a better municipality to visit, live, work, and call home.

What do you dream of? If your answer is to educate tomorrow's global citizens, you have come to the right place. Here, you will find all the prerequisites for you as an engaged special needs teacher who wants to inspire a love for learning – every day, all the way!

Your new job

You work to promote health, prevent issues, and implement measures based on the decided mission description for your profession. Through cross-professional collaboration in the Student Health Team (EHT), we support students' development towards educational goals and contribute to creating accessible learning environments. Education in primary school must be equitable, meaning teaching must be adapted to the student's prerequisites and needs, starting from the student's background, previous experiences, language, and knowledge to promote continued learning. This is a significant and jointly challenging task that you, as a special needs teacher, take on with great engagement. Equity also means that teaching cannot be designed exactly the same for everyone. The special needs teacher and colleagues in the special team support primary school teachers in adapting teaching to individual students' needs and opportunities. This can be done in the classroom, in smaller groups, or individually. Kålgårdsskolan also has a driven language pedagogue who is an important part of the puzzle regarding teaching.

As a special needs teacher at Kålgårdsskolan, you are part of the Student Health Team, which consists of the principal, deputy principal, special needs teachers in Swedish and mathematics, a school counselor, a school nurse, and often a school psychologist. Your duties include close collaboration with the school's pedagogues regarding individual students who need special support. You supervise and support teachers in the work with pedagogical assessments, extra adaptations, and action plans. You conduct various types of tests and assessments which you, together with the Student Health Team and pedagogues, use as a basis and analyze to find the best prerequisites for each student and for teaching in the grades. Therefore, the special needs teacher is naturally part of the school development group.

An important part of the special needs teacher's work is also close contact with guardians. The special needs teacher independently leads necessary meetings included in the mission, such as collaborating with external actors and responsible for handovers regarding students in need of support. Student documentation in the student journal, participation in professional networks, and following current research are other important parts of the work.

Welcome to us

Kålgårdsskolan is a school for grades F-6 with approximately 200 students and about 40 engaged employees. The school is centrally located in Jönköping with proximity to beautiful nature, such as parks and lakes. We have Upptech with all its possibilities close by, and the city library is within a short walking distance. Communication opportunities are good. We are organized in annual work teams but also work closely together in grades F-3 and 4-6. There are two after-school centers; Epsilon and Galaxen, which during the year will undergo competence development and further outdoor pedagogy. Kålgårdsskolan is also a school with a focus on deafness and hearing impairment, which is part of our operations and targets students from preschool class to grade 6.

On our website, you are welcome to read more about Kålgårdsskolan.

Read about what it is like to work in Jönköping Municipality at jonkoping.se (https://jonkoping.se).

Your qualifications

We are looking for you who have a license for primary school as well as a degree in special needs education.

• Basic IT skills
• Good knowledge of the Swedish language in both speech and writing
• Experience in leading adults
• Good ability to collaborate
• Result-oriented and driven

We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

Good to know

This position is job-evaluated and is found in base group G. For more information about the salary interval for the position, see: Salary and salary statistics - Jönköping Municipality (#).

Before employing new staff in our teaching positions, we must ensure that there is a valid teaching license. We therefore ask you to attach a current teaching license obtained from the Swedish National Agency for Education within the last two months.

Please log in via the Swedish National Agency for Education's e-service using the following link.

To facilitate the recruitment process, we ask you to attach relevant certificates and transcripts in connection with your application. According to the Education Act, all employees employed within our operations must present a valid extract from the criminal record register. The extract is ordered via the Police Authority under the category work in school or preschool: https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/skola-eller-forskola/ (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/skola-eller-forskola/)

From March 1, 2026, extended register checks were introduced for persons who are to work with children. This means you will need to submit an additional extract before employment. The second extract is ordered via the Police Authority under the category for work with children in other activities than school and childcare.

https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/barn-annan-verksamhet/ (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/barn-annan-verksamhet/)

Selection and interviews may take place before the application period has ended.

Do you want to know more?

You are welcome to contact any of the contact persons specified in the advertisement or look up a union representative via the link below.

Here you will find contact details for union representatives at the education administration.

Together we make Jönköping Municipality better – for everyone. Come and work with us. Welcome to apply for the position of special needs teacher.

Jönköping Municipality strives to offer an attractive workplace that is free from discrimination and provides equal opportunities for all.

In connection with the recruitment process, we have taken a stance on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore politely but firmly decline all calls regarding advertising and recruitment assistance.