About this role
Now, the adapted school is being gathered into an operational area. Together, we have great opportunities to develop and strengthen the adapted school for both students and employees in various ways! Would you like to help make a difference for the student group?
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Your role with us
As the coordinator for the adapted school, you will be responsible for ensuring the process leading up to the reception in adapted primary and secondary schools. You will be part of the reception group alongside other professionals within child and student health, where you will ensure the pedagogical assessment in the investigation process and contribute to interdisciplinary discussions. You will work closely with guardians, habilitation services for children and youth, school principals, and special educators in preschool, primary school, as well as independent actors.
Together with the operational manager and principals, you will work to ensure student forecasts in preparation for planning future needs for facilities, recruitment, and competency supply.
In parts of your assignment, you will work with internal competency supply and develop the organization's needs for competency-enhancing initiatives, as well as initiate and convene networks within the operational area.
You will work proactively, preventively, and systematically, ensuring that the work within the area is conducted both with quality and resource efficiency. Other tasks based on the needs of the operational area may also occur.
Your immediate supervisor is the operational manager for the adapted school area.
Who are we looking for?
You who are applying have a degree from a university with at least 120 credits/180 ECTS in educational training with a focus on the school system, as well as pedagogical insight according to the requirements of the Education Act acquired through education and experience. The position also requires that you have a special education degree and several years of work experience in an adapted school as a special educator/special teacher.
You have previously led school development work and have good knowledge of the regulations and laws governing educational activities, as well as experience in administrative work. Your knowledge of children and students with intellectual disabilities is very good, and you also have a solid understanding of additional diagnoses such as autism, visual and hearing impairments, and cerebral palsy. Furthermore, you have good knowledge of alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) and sign language as AAC (TAC). You are well acquainted with clear pedagogical methods, visual support, and low-arousal approaches.
Since communication and documentation are important parts of your work, you need to express yourself clearly and professionally both verbally and in writing in Swedish. You use digital tools to effectively search for information, plan, communicate, present, document, and report.
Your administrative skills are strong, as are your abilities to plan, organize, prioritize, and follow up on tasks. Additionally, you are skilled at gathering and analyzing information and making well-founded assessments. You also have a good ability to collaborate and build relationships, both internally and externally, characterized by professionalism, respect, responsiveness, good ambassadorship, and trust.
A B driver's license for manual transmission is required to travel to various activities in the municipality.
When we wish to offer you the position, you will need to present an extract from the police criminal record to be employed, according to the provisions in Chapter 2, Sections 31-33 of the Education Act.
About us
As of January 1, 2026, the adapted school will be gathered into an operational area. The operational area consists of eight principals, approximately 200 employees, and over 200 students, distributed across six schools in adapted primary education and two schools in adapted secondary education.
The Department of Children and Education conducts educational activities ranging from preschool to adult education. In a safe, creative, and democratic environment that values the equal worth of all individuals, we work for learning, knowledge, and care. We are looking for you who want to help shape the future!
We offer
We are over 7,000 employees in Kristianstad Municipality who make a difference in people's everyday lives, every day. Here, you will find employees who are passionate about welfare and want to turn ideas into reality. Kristianstad Municipality offers various career paths so that you can develop throughout your working life. Read more about our benefits and us as an employer here. (https://www.kristianstad.se/jobbochforetagande/jobbochpraktik/kommunensomarbetsgivare.670.html)
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