Special Educator for Adapted Primary School in Lerum

Lerum Municipality is known for its natural beauty, featuring lakes and forests. The municipality has 3,200 employees and 43,000 residents but expects significant growth in the coming years. Located just a 20-minute drive from Gothenburg, Lerum is currently undergoing an intensive development period with many exciting projects underway, ranging from schools to housing. The municipality works to ensure good service, high welfare, and a thriving business climate.

Dagens Samhälle named Lerum the winner in the large municipality category (2025) - an award based on a comprehensive comparison of 290 Swedish municipalities in areas such as education, healthcare and social care, economy, culture and leisure, attractiveness, business life, and future factors like digitalization and civil preparedness. Lerum is, in short, a Super Municipality!

Adapted Primary School in Lerum

The Adapted Primary School in Lerum consists of three units:

• Knappekullaskolan (grades 1–5)
• Centralskolan (grades 1–5)
• Rydsbergsskolan (grades 6–9)

Each unit is well integrated into its respective school, and the adapted primary school is visible and actively involved in the schools' development work. The operation has a well-developed systematic quality work based on scientific evidence, where teaching is developed through collegial practice and elements of action research. Our prioritized goals are accessible education and a scientific approach.

We are facing an exciting development step as a new F–9 school is being built, with a planned move-in in the autumn term of 2027. When the school is completed, the adapted primary school in Lerum (grades 1–9) will be gathered in one single school.

At our workplace, professional development is a natural part of everyday life. We work systematically with collegial learning where the entire staff participates. Our systematic quality work is well anchored and stems from the actual needs of the operation. Here, you work in an environment with clear direction and common goals.

1 Position(s)

Job Responsibilities

We are looking for an engaged special educator for our adapted primary school at Knappekullaskolan.

As a special educator, you play a key role in developing and ensuring the quality of the pedagogical activities in the adapted primary school. You work both strategically and operationally, focusing on developing accessible learning environments at the organizational, group, and individual levels.

Your responsibilities include:

• Leading and structuring collegial learning and pedagogical development work
• Being part of the student health team and contributing to health-promoting and preventive work
• Mentoring and supporting staff and students
• Playing a central role in the reception of new students and collaboration with guardians
li>Collaborating with external actors such as Habilitation, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (BUP), and social services

Who are you?

You are confident in your pedagogical leadership and have good communication skills. You are flexible, solution-focused, and have a talent for building trusting relationships with students, colleagues, guardians, and external partners.

Qualifications

You are a certified primary school teacher with additional education in special education. Experience from adapted primary schools is an advantage.

You have a good understanding of the target group's needs and knowledge of Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) and low-affective handling.

We offer:

A workplace where your leadership and competence make a real difference. You will become part of a flat-hierarchy and supportive team with the student's best interests at the forefront.

We are looking for someone who:

• Wants to contribute to the development of the operation
• Thrives working both independently and in teams
• Has a good ability to build relationships with students, guardians, and colleagues
• Is structured and confident in documentation and knowledge sharing

Merits:

• Experience in investigation and mapping work
• In-depth knowledge of AAC
• Experience in mentoring and competence development
• Experience from adapted primary schools

We welcome your application where you describe your interest in the position and what you can contribute in the role.

Employment Type: Permanent.
Duration: Permanent, start date: 2026-09-21.
Working Hours: Daytime.

The development in Lerum Municipality should be sustainable, and our management is based on the global goals in Agenda 2030.

We believe that our differences enrich and positively develop the individual, the operation, and society. As an employer, Lerum Municipality actively works for gender equality and diversity and against all forms of discrimination and offensive behavior.

We value a good work environment where you can combine work and leisure. As an employee, you will have access to a range of benefits, such as a fitness allowance and employee welfare programs.

Lerum Municipality is covered by the Main Agreement HÖK https://skr.se/kollektivavtal/huvudoverenskommelsehok.8204.html (https://skr.se/kollektivavtal/huvudoverenskommelsehok.8204.html) and the General Provisions AB Collective Agreement https://skr.se/kollektivavtal/allmannabestammelserab.655.html (https://skr.se/kollektivavtal/allmannabestammelserab.655.html). We apply individual and differentiated wage setting, and the individual salary is influenced by both the complexity of the position and your competence and experience.

In accordance with the Pay Transparency Directive, we have made wage statistics available on our website, and you can find information about our collective agreement, employee benefits, and the applicable salary range for the current position here:

https://lerum.se/jobb-och-foretagande/jobba-hos-oss/din-lon-och-dina-formaner (https://lerum.se/jobb-och-foretagande/jobba-hos-oss/din-lon-och-dina-formaner)

Neither the employer nor the job seeker is bound by this information. The information serves only as a guide for you as a job seeker.

As an employee in Lerum Municipality, there may be requirements to use a personal Bank-ID in the job for authentication, for example, in system logins or other verifications.

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process, we ask you to submit your application via this link, and not via email or paper format.

Start date is by agreement, but no earlier than September 21. Interviews will take place during weeks 32 and 33.

We warmly welcome your application!

For this recruitment, we have already decided on the recruitment channels we wish to use. We kindly but firmly decline to be contacted for further offers of competence mediation, advertising, and recruitment assistance.