School counselor
Boden, Sverige
Type of Employment Full-time
Job position School counselor
Work model On location
Application due date 28 May 2025
Are you the one?
Do you want to be part of the efforts to address the greatest challenges of our time, and be able to influence and leave something for future generations to develop? Then Boden Municipality is an employer for you! Boden is located in Norrbotten's coastal region, only 3 miles from the sea between two river valleys. Around 28,000 people live here. Boden is a modern small town with proximity to most things, which creates a rewarding working and leisure life, what we call proximity life. Boden is located in the heart of an establishment-intensive region and is an important part of the green global social transition. A growing society is being created here, equipped to meet the green new industrialization, with smart and sustainable solutions for collaboration, housing, transport, everyday life and modern business. With strong support from competent colleagues and managers, you will have the courage to try. With us, you will be given great confidence in a fantastic environment, where there is the opportunity to develop yourself and others. Do you want to know more about what it is like to work in Boden municipality? Then you can read more here: www.boden.se/jobbaiboden Welcome to the Employment and Education Administration in Boden municipality! The Employment and Education Administration has overall responsibility for integration, labor market, education and employment issues that affect our municipality's residents. The administration is also responsible for the Cultural School and the food supply, and performs tasks for the medical and psychological part of student health in municipal preschool class, compulsory school, adapted compulsory school, upper secondary school and adapted upper secondary school. As an employee in our administration, you will have competent colleagues who show respect and tolerance and whose great commitment creates job satisfaction and pride. Together, we focus on constantly improving our operations. As a school counselor, you will have an important role both in schools and in our Central Student Health Service. The school counselor's mission includes carrying out psychosocial interventions at the school and working according to the overall mission of the school's activities. With that said, we want to welcome you to our team! Because don't you want one of the most important jobs in the world? DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES The tasks include working preventively and promotionally from a health perspective, but also providing support for students in difficulty. You will work in close collaboration with students, guardians, teachers and school management. As a school counselor, you will work with groups as well as with individual students, and collaboration with external actors is also part of the assignment. You will be an expert in the school regarding social work and social legislation. You will largely collaborate with special educators, school nurses and school psychologists within the Central Student Health Service. QUALIFICATIONS We are looking for you who have a social work degree and experience in the profession. Experience of working in student health and/or with children and young people is an advantage. For the role of school counselor, it is important that you are independent, have a structured approach and can plan and prioritize among many different tasks. You have a good ability to cooperate and have your own drive in creating relationships at school. You see opportunities and have a positive view of people. You have a good knowledge of the Swedish language both in speech and writing. We attach great importance to personal suitability. OTHER INFORMATION Please enclose proof of identity/diploma. An extract from the criminal record must be presented before employment in preschool and primary school. We value age and gender balance and diversity in all professional areas. We have non-smoking working hours and we offer one hour of wellness per week and a wellness allowance. Via our health portal, you as an employee can book yourself in for various wellness activities such as massages, trial training, lectures, etc. When you apply for a job with us, we want you to use our e-recruitment system. This way, the processing of your application will be efficient, fast and secure. Prior to the recruitment process, the municipality of Boden has taken a position on recruitment channels. We kindly but firmly decline any contact with media salespeople, recruitment sites or similar in this recruitment.