School Counsellor at Säbyholm Montessori School F–9

Säbyholm Montessori School is located in an idyllic cultural environment at Säbyholm estate in northern Landskrona, and the operations include both a preschool and a compulsory school F–9 with after-school care. Säbyholm Montessori School has approximately 250 students. Here we place the individual and their development at the centre with the guiding principles of freedom, responsibility, consideration and self-confidence, which we realise with Montessori pedagogy as our guiding star and tool.

We are now looking for a committed and relationship-building school counsellor who wants to be an important part of our student health work and contribute to our students feeling good, feeling safe and succeeding in school.

About the position

As a school counsellor with us, you will be part of the school's student health team together with the principal, special education teacher, school nurse and other professions within student health. You work primarily promotive and preventive with students' psychosocial health at the individual, group and organisational levels.

The assignment includes, among other things:

• contributing to the school's safety and values work
• working with supportive conversations with students
• collaborating with guardians and external actors such as social services and child and adolescent psychiatry
• supervising and supporting staff in psychosocial issues
• participating in work on school attendance and early interventions
• contributing psychosocial expertise in the student health team's work
• taking part in the school's work on safety, well-being and equal treatment
• working preventively and health-promotively in student groups and classes

We offer a meaningful and developing job in an organisation where student health is seen as the responsibility of the entire school and where collaboration between professions is a given.

The position is 70% and is a permanent employment with an initial probationary period. Start date in August.

We are looking for someone who

• is a trained social worker
• has experience working with children and young people, preferably in a school environment
• has good knowledge of the school's mission and student health work
• is confident in their professional role and has a good ability to work independently
• has a relationship-building and solution-focused working approach
• has good collaboration skills and finds it easy to build trusting relationships with students, guardians and colleagues
• expresses themselves well in spoken and written Swedish

We place great emphasis on personal suitability.