School Counselor

Alingsås kommun · Vollzeit

Kungsgatan 4, Alingsås, Schweden

Welcome to Alingsås! As an employee in our municipality, you have every opportunity to be part of developing our operations and your workplace. With nearly 4,000 employees, we are large enough to drive change while remaining small enough that each person can have influence and space for their ideas. There is room for innovative thinkers here. Together we create Alingsås! The Department of Children and Youth is responsible for preschools, after-school programs, primary school, and adapted primary school grades F-9. Together we are approximately 1,100 people working to provide quality services for our children and students today and prepare them for the future. As staff in our department, you create together with us the conditions for children's and students' joy of learning and opportunity to succeed. The central unit for child and student well-being supports the municipality's preschools and primary schools. As an employee of the unit, you will be part of the local student well-being team led by the principal, but your immediate supervisor will be in the central organization. The unit's development work has a clear focus on health-promoting and preventive child and student well-being work, and we strive for interprofessionalism in the teams. We are now seeking a school counselor for our team—we warmly welcome your application! 1 position(s). JOB DUTIES Your duties as a school counselor in our central child and student well-being will involve contributing psychosocial expertise to the interprofessional student well-being work in the units where you are part of the student well-being team. You work on behalf of the principal based on applicable school legislation in collaboration with other school staff, students, and guardians. As a counselor, you collaborate with other student well-being professionals in daily work to create conditions for students' joy of learning and opportunities to succeed. You contribute with interventions in social and psychosocial work at individual, group, and organizational levels. Your duties include, for example, conversations, supervision, and consultation with individual educators and work teams. You collaborate with authorities such as social services and child psychiatric services, and work together with other student well-being professionals to ensure that students in need of special support have their needs comprehensively mapped and assessed. As a counselor, you particularly contribute to ensuring that students who need special support for their social and emotional development receive adequate interventions within the school. QUALIFICATIONS We are seeking someone who has: • A degree in social work (socionom) • Experience working as a school counselor or other experience working with children and youth, and knowledge of current policy documents and legislation • Good digital skills and experience working in documentation systems • Very good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written You can work independently, have good ability to collaborate, and have strong commitment to working in a health-promoting and preventive manner at the organizational, group, and individual levels. You also have a strong interest in children's and students' learning, recognize the importance of collaboration with all school staff, and find joy in working in a multiprofessional team. You work long-term to build sustainable relationships between students and adults to promote students' social development. You work to strengthen students' sense of security and motivation. You are confident in contact with students, parents, and authorities, and have good ability to express yourself in speech and writing. Employment type: Permanent employment. Duration: Permanent, start: January or by agreement. Interviews will be held on the following dates and times: 5 October at 16:00-16:45 6 October at 15:30-16:15 7 October at 8:00-8:45 For this position, you need to provide a valid criminal record certificate which you order via the link below: https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/skola-eller-forskola/ To facilitate the recruitment process, we ask that you attach relevant certificates and grades for the position you are applying for. If you have protected personal information, you should NOT apply through the system but instead contact the responsible recruiting manager for handling of your application. We can only accept applications through Visma Recruit. Alingsås municipality applies individual and differentiated salary setting. On our website you can read more about salary, salary development, collective agreements, salary statistics, and our benefits: https://www.alingsas.se/naringsliv-och-arbete/jobb/vilka-ar-vi/