Vacant job

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The Red Cross Folk High School is now looking for a care teacher who wants to teach on our newly launched course, "Introduction to Care and Elderly Care with Swedish as a Second Language (SVA) Foundation". This course prepares participants for work within the care and elderly care sector, with a focus on language-strengthening efforts. The school has a close collaboration with the home care service in Skärholmen, and participants will be offered summer jobs in their operations. The role involves close cooperation with other teachers in the team and the school as a whole.

The course is aimed at people who speak Swedish as a second language, and we are looking for someone with experience teaching this target group. You will be responsible for the participants' learning and development together with the teaching team. We are looking for you who are engaged, enjoy working in a team, and want to help develop the course together with us and local actors within the care and elderly care sector.

About the school

The Red Cross Folk High School is part of the Swedish Red Cross. The school is located in Skärholmen to meet educational needs primarily at the local level. We educate approximately 170 participants per year. Through our folk high school activities, we contribute to the Swedish Red Cross's vision of a humane Sweden in a sustainable world. In addition to our folk high school activities, we want to develop local collaboration to a greater extent to strengthen the local community through cooperation and activities that respond to the needs of the local community. We aim to develop our position as "a school in the middle of the village". The Red Cross Folk High School is based on the Red Cross's fundamental principles, meaning that human rights and the equal value of all people permeate all the school's courses.

Qualifications:

• Professional teacher degree in care and elderly care
• At least 2 years of experience from adult education

Merits include:

• Experience teaching groups with Swedish as a second language
• Experience working in socio-economically disadvantaged areas
• Experience from folk high schools
• Multilingualism

About the position

The position is a fixed-term employment at 50%, running from August 2026 to 2028-06-16. Salary according to agreement. We welcome your application no later than August 10, 2026. If you have questions about the position, you are welcome to contact the rector of the folk high school, Ulrika Sandin, via email: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

Our recruitment process

The Swedish Red Cross strives to be an inclusive organization with employees who contribute to diversity in perspective, experience, and background. We believe this makes us more relevant. Therefore, we welcome applicants with different ethnic and social backgrounds, gender identities and expressions, religion, age, disabilities, and sexual orientations.

Our recruitment process starts with an initial selection based on a established requirement profile, followed by interviews. In some cases, online tests, background checks, and reference checks may be included.

As the Swedish Red Cross is part of the "Inter-Agency Scheme for the Disclosure of Safeguarding-related Misconduct" to protect our sector from sexual abuse, we ask specific questions regarding this to your references. Final candidates may also be screened against EU and UN sanctions lists.

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