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Do you want to help create a safe and meaningful school day?

The lower secondary school at Södermalmsskolan in Kristinehamn is now looking for a Special Needs Teacher in Swedish/Swedish as a Second Language. This is a substitute position starting 2026-08-10 or according to agreement.

About Södermalmsskolan

Södermalmsskolan belongs to the central school district and has approximately 850 students from preschool class to grade 9. Premises and the schoolyard are divided into F-3, 4-6, and 7-9, where each stage has its naturally defined area to promote play and activity. On the school, 130 competent employees work together to strengthen student goal achievement.

About Kristinehamn

Kristinehamn is a city that combines the best of two worlds – the calm and community of a small town with good opportunities for work and development. Here, commuting times are reduced, the pace becomes more balanced, and daily life is easier to manage. With Vänern just around the corner, a beautiful and accessible archipelago environment awaits, and we have a rich cultural and leisure life for both children and adults, making it easy to live an active life.

Responsibilities

You will work at stage 7-9 with a focus on Swedish and Swedish as a second language. Here, we expect you to adopt a relational perspective with a large focus on health-promoting and preventive work regarding student health services. A major focus is on supporting teachers in developing education that reaches everyone in the class.

You contribute to adapting the teaching so that all students, regardless of background, have equal opportunities to develop based on steering documents. You follow and document student learning, identify success factors, and drive development initiatives that strengthen teaching and student progression.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who:

• are qualified to teach at stage 7-9 in Swedish/Swedish as a second language
• have a special needs teacher degree, but we also welcome those who are at the end of their special needs teacher education
• have previous work experience from the teaching profession
• can express yourself well in speech and writing in Swedish, as language is our primary tool

We consider it an advantage if you have previous experience in language and knowledge-developing work.

Your Profile

To succeed in the role as a special needs teacher with us, you are calm, stable, and controlled in stressful situations. You are self-reliant, take responsibility for your tasks, and find it easy to create structure in your planning and teaching. You must have good collaboration skills as you will work closely with both students and teachers at the school. This means that you listen, communicate, and support our students and teachers in a constructive way.

It is further important that you are relationship-building and have a good understanding of students' different prerequisites, as well as that you adapt your way of conveying messages.

Employment Terms

Employment Type: Permanent.
Duration: Permanent, start date: 2026-08-10 or according to agreement.

We ask you who have a teaching license and a special needs teacher degree to attach these with the application. If you are not a citizen of Sweden, the EU, EEA, or Switzerland and are offered employment, you must be able to prove that you have a valid work permit or are exempt from the obligation to have a work permit.

About Kristinehamn Municipality

We at Kristinehamn Municipality work for active leadership and employee engagement. This is created through dialogue and interaction between leaders and employees, which creates good conditions for job satisfaction in the organization. Our work environment is influenced by how we treat each other, and we all have a responsibility to contribute.

Together we work to ensure that the operations achieve their goals and that decisions made are also followed. A curious basic attitude and a willingness to collaborate are prerequisites for continuous improvements that lead to the best possible service to the municipality's residents.

As an employee with us, you can expect support for new ideas, good development opportunities, and that we give you the tools you need to perform your work well.

Kristinehamn Municipality sees diversity as a strength and welcomes all applicants. Our competency-based recruitment methodology aims to focus on the individual's competence and thereby also combat discrimination.

We warmly welcome your application!

To ensure quality assurance of the recruitment process and have good communication with you as a job seeker with us, we ask you to only send your application via the application link in the ad. Questions regarding the recruitment process are handled by the recruitment unit.