School Psychologist for Central Student Health Services in Ale Municipality

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Do you want to make a difference for children and students' health, learning, and development? With us, you have the opportunity to contribute to an important mission where we together create the best possible conditions for all children and students. Ale is now making a special investment in student health and is therefore recruiting school nurses, counselors, and a psychologist. Welcome to join us! About the Workplace Following a recently reorganized structure, Ale has a unified student health service where psychologists, school nurses, and school social work teams are led by a student health director. Together with the schools' other student health professionals, we form an interdisciplinary group that primarily has a health-promoting and preventive mission for the municipality's students. The group consists of just over 20 employees and is an important resource in development issues and coordination of various tasks. We're looking for someone who wants to make a difference and support students' development toward educational goals. A couple of times each month, student health staff meet for common meetings, both in full group and by profession. These occasions are valued both for the opportunity for community and reflection and for working together on development and quality improvement. We are an age and experience-diverse group that enjoys each other's company! Within central student health in Ale, there are currently five psychology positions, as well as one psychologist focused on School Family. The psychologists have several years of experience from school and related activities, and one of our psychologists has a coordination task and supervisor responsibilities as part of their position. In Ale, the school psychologist role is well-established and valued. School psychologists work with preschools, primary schools, adapted primary schools, and upper secondary schools. Duties We are now looking for an engaged psychologist for a broad and varied role within preschools, primary schools, and upper secondary schools. With us, you have the opportunity to work close to the activities and contribute to creating the best conditions for children's and students' development, health, and learning. We're looking for someone who wants to be an active and important part of the health-promoting and preventive work. In this role, you contribute your psychological expertise to create increased understanding of preschools' and schools' mission and responsibility toward students, guardians, and external partners. Your work is characterized by a holistic perspective where both pedagogical and psychological aspects are considered. A central part of the position is providing consultation and guidance to staff. Through your support, you contribute to increased knowledge and insight regarding children's and students' different needs and conditions, and strengthen staff's important role in relational work. You also conduct psychological assessments, including for admission to adapted primary school. Together with your colleagues on the student health team, you actively work to remove obstacles to learning. You analyze needs at individual, group, and organizational levels and contribute interventions that make a real difference. You also have the opportunity to conduct training, both independently and together with colleagues. As a school psychologist, you also have an important role in collaboration with the region's primary care and specialist clinics. Currently, there is an additional focus on preschools to strengthen child health. Here you become an important part of close collaboration with preschool staff, special educators, speech-language pathologists, and a child health director – a development effort where you can truly influence and contribute forward. Qualifications You are a licensed psychologist with a commitment to children's and young people's development and want to make a real difference in their daily lives. You are development-oriented, curious, and like to contribute ideas and perspectives that strengthen the activity. With a secure and professional approach, you find it easy to communicate your psychological knowledge to different professional groups within school and to external partners. Meriting qualifications include previous work with children and young people, preferably within preschool and/or school. You have good ability to handle Swedish in speech and writing. You enjoy a role where you can alternate between working independently and together with others, and you see the value in collaboration and cooperation. You have good ability to plan and organize your work and feel comfortable with a broad role where you get to use different working methods and approaches. You are solution-focused, flexible, and like to share your knowledge to contribute to development – both in the team and in the activity as a whole. Great importance is placed on personal suitability. Other To work within Student Health, you must be able to provide a valid extract from the police criminal record register. Interviews take place continuously during the application period. Please submit your application as soon as possible! If you have protected personal information, you should NOT apply through the system but instead contact the recruitment officer for handling your application. To facilitate the recruitment process, we ask that you attach relevant certificates and grades for the position you are applying for and, in the event of an interview, have the ability to present a valid ID. We can only receive applications through Varbi. We strive for an even gender distribution and see diversity as a strength, and therefore welcome applicants with different backgrounds. Want to know more about what it's like to work in Ale Municipality? Read more here: Work in Ale Municipality | Ale Municipality Regarding the recruitment process, we have decided on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore strongly decline contact from media sales, recruitment sites, and similar. We use e-recruitment to streamline and quality assure the recruitment process. All your information is saved on your CV account and you can easily log in and update your information whenever you want. Therefore, fill in your information as carefully as possible to give an accurate picture of yourself. Your personal information is processed in Varbi during the recruitment process and to the extent necessary to comply with applicable law. The application is deleted 24 months after completion of recruitment. If you have a Varbi account, you can use your profile editing to delete, upload, and edit information. Otherwise, contact Ale Municipality. We want to inform you that your application is a public document according to the principle of public access.

Overview

Type

job

Status

active

Visibility

public

City

Nödinge

Address

Ale torg 7

GPS

57.894221295624, 12.046962607244copyopen in

Email

[email protected]

Phone

0702902268

Views

5

Published

9. 6. 2026

Edited

21. 6. 2026

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