School counselor Type of Employment Part-time
Job position School counselor
Work model On location
Application due date 31 January 2025
Are you the one? One thing is certain. With us, you make a difference. We are the teacher who makes your little brother read his first words and the after-school staff who make you laugh after school. We are the childminder who makes someone grow every day and the librarian who brings literature close. Together we fight for knowledge, for the creation of meaning and for the fun everyday life of children and young people. There is something beautiful in that. Do you also want to work for the future in Kiruna municipality? Come and be part of the community at the culture and education administration.
JOB DESCRIPTION
You will work with leading and developing the efforts in social and psychosocial
The work includes having a supporting function and being a resource for the work teams in their work with children and young people's learning. You contribute to the school's work to promote health and prevent mental illness, bullying, abusive treatment, discrimination and harassment. You will also help ensure that all pupils achieve their learning objectives and develop socially and emotionally in an environment that promotes learning. Your work also includes facilitating the reception of newly arrived pupils in primary and lower secondary schools, as well as class integration. The role of school counselor also requires you to interact with other student health professionals as well as activities and authorities outside the school.
QUALIFICATIONS
We are looking for you who have a social worker degree. It would be an advantage if you have experience of counselor work, especially in schools and work with new arrivals. We also attach great importance to personal suitability and good cooperation skills. You are independent, proactive and goal-oriented in your work.
To work in an educational setting, we must have an approved extract from the
police criminal record. Order one directly when you submit your application as the processing time at the Police is about 2 weeks. You can find the form for applying for an extract from the criminal record via polisen.se.
OTHER
To work with us, you must share Kiruna municipality's common values where respect, responsibility and collaboration are the key words.
We offer a pleasant working environment and stimulating work tasks and that you as an employee get a good balance between work and leisure.
We have many different benefits such as free health care where you as an employee can train free of charge at various training facilities, we have cabins in the mountains that you can rent, we offer the opportunity to exchange salary for days off.
We strive for gender balance and see diversity as a strength, we welcome employees with different backgrounds and work to ensure that our workplaces are accessible to everyone. Kiruna municipality sees full-time as a right and part-time as an opportunity. It is an advantage if you have knowledge of Finnish, Sami and/or Meänkieli as Kiruna municipality is an administrative area for these languages.
Kiruna municipality has made media choices for this recruitment and therefore refrains from contacting advertisement sellers or other sellers of recruitment services.