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About the role and your responsibilities

As a Lead Teacher/Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCO) at Klostergårdskolan, you are part of the development work, leading and developing pedagogical practices strategically in close collaboration with school management, the student health team, and colleagues. You initiate and drive processes for collegial learning, subject development, and didactic reflection. The role also involves implementing working methods that benefit students in need of special support, often with a focus on neurodevelopmental conditions (NPF). By analyzing student results, you support colleagues in designing lessons that promote participation.

In your specialization towards special education, you teach 50%, while the remainder is linked to the special educational and lead teacher responsibilities. Your primary focus is Swedish, and the role includes driving subject development across the entire school. This autumn, our development work continues with language-developing methods and the development of Swedish as a second language instruction. As a special educator, you work at an organizational level and mentor teachers.

In your role, you are a clear role model in teaching, flexible, and unpretentious, contributing to high expectations and good results. Furthermore, you work towards an accessible and inclusive learning environment where all students receive support for their development.

You have good Swedish skills in both speech and writing and have experience working with student health matters with a special educational focus, such as assessments, writing action plans, and preparing referral materials.

You must meet the Swedish National Agency for Education's criteria for the lead teacher role. It is an advantage if you have prior experience in mentoring, process leadership, or development work.

Working as a lead teacher primarily means strengthening the pedagogical development work to achieve higher goal fulfillment. The lead teacher has a special responsibility in systematic quality work and operates with the aim of the school continuing to develop into a learning organization, acting on behalf of the principal.

We are looking for you

We are looking for you who are a certified teacher with qualifications in Swedish and Swedish as a second language. You have several years of teaching experience with good results, and we would appreciate it if you could conduct various types of mapping and tests. You have completed the special education program.

To be considered for a lead teacher position, you must meet the following requirements:

• Be a certified teacher.
• Through documentation, be able to report at least four years of well-regarded work with teaching within the framework of one or more employments within the school system.
• Have shown particularly good ability to improve students' study results and have a strong interest in developing teaching.
• Have good knowledge of developing teaching and be assessed by the employer as particularly qualified for teaching and tasks related to teaching.

To succeed in your role as a lead teacher, you need to be secure, stable, and self-aware. You see relationships in their proper perspective, distinguish the personal from the professional, and relate in a way adapted to the situation. Furthermore, you need to have a good ability to relate to others in a listening and flexible manner; you listen, communicate, and resolve conflicts constructively.

As a person, you have strong drive and a genuine desire to make a difference, both for the students and your colleagues. You are flexible and responsible, seeing it as a matter of course. You see opportunities where others see challenges. You are skilled at creating and maintaining relationships with colleagues, students, guardians, and other actors you meet in your work.

We are looking for you who have the ability to think strategically and have a curious approach. You see the long-term significance and consequences of matters and adapt your actions accordingly. We also believe that you, as an applicant, understand the professional aspects of your work particularly well. You continuously maintain your specialist knowledge and serve as a knowledge resource for others. Good knowledge of digital tools is also a requirement.

We offer you

As an employee with us, you are offered a number of benefits with a focus on balance, security, and health. Lund Municipality is a large organization with many exciting operations and opportunities for employee development. As an employee, you also get access to our benefits portal where you can easily view and manage your benefits. Read more about what we offer you as an employee (https://lund.se/arbete-och-lediga-jobb/sa-ar-det-att-arbeta-med-oss/det-har-ger-vi-dig-som-medarbetare).

We warmly welcome your application!

About the workplace

The school is a central part of Klostergården and offers education from preschool class to grade 6, with an associated after-school center. At the school, we have approximately 34 employees. Within the school's student health team, we focus on early interventions, and the whole school has a shared responsibility for ensuring our students reach as far as possible.

We are in the midst of long-term development work where we have the quality of teaching, reading in all subjects, and language-developing methods as a special focus. As a lead teacher in special education, you will become an important part of this work.

The school is located with a good commuting distance for several towns. Klostergården station is a 3-minute walk from the school.

At the Child and School Administration, we work to create equality and good conditions for all children and students in our preschools, primary schools, and adapted primary schools to reach their goals. Together, we work for a unified and clear steering of preschool and school in a modern and efficient organization, with the goal of enabling world-class education. Our ambitions are high, and we always strive to create good conditions for development and value high quality in the operations.

To work with children or students within preschool and school, you must be able to present an acceptable extract from the criminal record register.

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Here you have room to grow. Within Lund Municipality, we put knowledge at the center and create opportunities to develop in working life. We offer an inclusive work environment and a chance to influence and make a difference. Do you want to become one of us?