About this role
What You Will Do
As a special education teacher at Östergård School, you will play a key role in the school's student health efforts.
You will work both preventively and remedially, individually and collaboratively with colleagues, to create the best conditions for all students' learning and development.
Your responsibilities include, among others:
• Investigating and mapping students' knowledge development and needs
• Teaching and providing adapted instruction, either individually or in smaller groups
• Guiding and supporting colleagues in their work with additional adaptations and special support
• Participating in the student health team and collaborating with guardians
• Following up, documenting, and evaluating interventions
You need to have a holistic view of student learning and the ability to adapt your work based on individual needs.
Your Experience
You are a licensed special education teacher for grades 4-6 with a focus on language, writing, and reading development, and you have experience working in this area as well as with neuropsychiatric disabilities (NPF). We also welcome candidates with a broad subject competence within primary education. You have experience working with students of various ages and with diverse needs.
You possess leadership skills and are communicative. You collaborate easily and view the work team and other staff as valuable assets. You have analytical skills and see problem-solving as part of your daily routine. You have a strong ability to build relationships, create trust, and contribute to a positive learning environment.
What We Offer
Do you want to make a real difference for students in need of special support? We offer a varied job alongside our dedicated colleagues at Östergård School. You will join a school where students and staff moved into new, beautiful facilities in the autumn term of 2024. The school has approximately 650 students in grades 4-9, along with an associated after-school program. At Östergård School, we work closely in teams, with a strong commitment to developing our students towards their goals. For several years, we have been working to challenge structures regarding how the school is organized and how we can work differently to provide our students with the best possible conditions. We take pride in the work being done while continuously striving to develop ourselves every day.
Please apply as soon as possible, as interviews may be conducted on an ongoing basis during the application period. We look forward to receiving your application!
Additional Information
To ensure a quality recruitment process at Halmstad Municipality and facilitate good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally.
The Children and Youth Administration values the qualities that a balanced age and gender distribution, as well as ethnic and cultural diversity, bring to the organization. We therefore welcome applicants who contribute to this.
Before employment, you must demonstrate your right to work, as required by the Aliens Ordinance. You can do this by proving your citizenship in the EU/EES or Switzerland through a passport, national ID card, or personal certificate along with an identification document. If you cannot do this, you need to present a work permit or show that you are exempt from the requirement for a work permit.
If you are offered a position within the Children and Youth Administration, you are required to present a clean extract from the Police Criminal Records for work in schools/preschools. The extract is free of charge and takes about 2-3 weeks for the police to process. Therefore, please order it in good time!
The position will be filled on the condition that it is not claimed by surplus staff.
We kindly decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this advertisement.
Warm welcome to submit your application!
The Children and Youth Administration is responsible for Halmstad's municipal preschools, primary schools, adapted primary schools, after-school programs, and cultural schools. Every day, approximately 16,000 children attend one of our facilities. We are looking for individuals who want to work to ensure that every child and student gets the best start in life. Welcome to develop within Halmstad Municipality's largest administration, where your contributions will make a difference every day. With us, you are helping to create the future!
When you work in Halmstad Municipality, you create meaning by shaping, strengthening, and enriching the everyday lives of others—whoever you are. With us, collaboration, balance, and the opportunity to develop, both as a professional and as a person, are important—we are the workplace where you get more out of life! Read more about us at https://www.halmstad.se/intro.