Special Education Teacher at Kvarnbergsskolan

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Description We are now looking for a special education teacher to join our wonderful, competent, and engaged student support team at Kvarnbergsskolan! Kvarnbergsskolan is located at the top of Kvarnberget and has approximately 300 students from preschool through grade 6. The newly renovated and expanded school opened in fall 2020 and offers excellent learning environments as well as multiple outdoor spaces that provide excellent opportunities for varied outdoor activities. We also collaborate with the Sports School and Cultural School to provide our students with a broad and stimulating education. With us, the student's learning and well-being are at the center, and we strive to create an inclusive and supportive school environment for all. The school's values are built on four core principles: together, safety, knowledge, and joy. The values are created by everyone who is part of the school and strive to apply our values in conversations with students, staff, and guardians as well as in practical actions. Kvarnbergsskolan is known for its good team spirit and the principle of together is strongly anchored in the activities. Duties As a special education teacher, you work preventatively and promotively, but also with targeted interventions and provide focused support to students. You work together with other colleagues in the student support team; special education teachers, school counselor, school nurse, and school psychologist as well as educators at Kvarnbergsskolan. Together with our student support team, you plan and lead work around students with special needs. You are skilled at supporting teachers in making adaptations in the school's various learning environments and you have good expertise in how to work with and organize special support. You have a genuine interest in children's situations and are responsive to different students' needs and have a flexible working style. You should be able to meet with guardians and lead meetings both together with colleagues and independently. It is meritorious if you have experience with/training in working with children who have different functional variations. The position includes coaching of teachers and supporting the school's various pedagogical working groups from a special education perspective. You want to drive active improvement work on how we organize instruction so that all students can have their needs met. You are well-read and interested in educational research and are generous in sharing your knowledge with others. Qualifications We are looking for you who are a licensed special education teacher and have experience working with various analysis and mapping materials to make correct educational assessments. As a person, you need to have a good ability to plan and structure by setting clear goals for instruction and support measures based on students' individual needs and follow up results continuously. You understand how students learn in different ways and adapt methods to their unique needs, strengths, and difficulties, as well as analyze and improve your own teaching based on student development and feedback. You have a good ability to motivate students to overcome challenges to dare try new things. You take initiative and make decisions to drive work forward, even in complex or difficult situations. The position will be filled if required decisions are made. We offer Read more about our benefits and what it is like to work in Karlstad Municipality on karlstad.se/jobbahososs Information about salary levels can be found here (select "See salary statistics"). This recruitment concerns AID code 401017. Warmly welcome with your application! When you apply for a job with us, you will provide your CV and answer a number of questions where we ask you to describe your competence in the requested area. This means you should not attach a personal letter as part of your application. About Karlstad Municipality The Children and Youth Department is responsible for preschool and school for approximately 13,200 children and students and is the municipality's largest department with over 2,400 employees. We have preschools, family daycare, open preschools, preschool classes, primary schools, adapted primary school, leisure centers, and cultural school and also work with child and student health issues. We equip children for the future. Do you want to be part of creating the Karlstad of the future? With us in the Karlstad Municipality group, you can make a real difference. Here, every employee is an important part of the whole and together we help each other realize our vision of "A better life in Solstaden". Come and grow with us! Other Information To ensure the quality of the recruitment process and simplify communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application via our recruitment system and not via e-mail or paper format. We decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this advertisement. If you have protected personal information, you should not register your application documents in our recruitment system or send them via e-mail. Instead, contact the municipality switchboard at 054-540 00 00 for further handling.

Overview

Type

job

Status

active

Visibility

public

City

Karlstad

Address

Västra torggatan 26

GPS

59.3835313, 13.5229996copyopen in

Phone

054-5408721

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2

Published

9. 6. 2026

Edited

21. 6. 2026

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