School Social Worker for Härryda Municipality

Härryda kommun

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Welcome to Härryda, a municipality that dares!

Here we aim to have Sweden's best schools and business climate, high-quality care, and attractive community building. Together, we are 3,000 employees who make the meeting with Härryda municipality easy. With courage, innovation, and decisiveness, we inspire each other and deliver service with competence and quality. Härryda municipality has ranked among the top in Dagens Samhälles annual ranking of Årets superkommun for the past four years.

We are looking for someone who is engaged, open to different perspectives, and wants to create solutions that will last for future generations. You can find us between Gothenburg and Borås with Landvetter Airport located in the middle of the municipality. Together we achieve more!

To meet the increasing need for psychosocial support for students, Härryda municipality is expanding the number of school social workers in primary schools. The goal is to ensure that all students have access to the necessary support to complete their studies.

Skinnefjällskolan is located in Mölnlycke and is a F-3 school with approximately 230 students. The school has good bus connections to Borås and Gothenburg.

Our organization is the foundation of the school. We work with three staff members around each class: a primary school teacher, a preschool teacher, and a leisure teacher. The work team operates on a shared responsibility basis and is responsible for the students throughout the day, creating a great sense of security for our students and guardians.

JOB DESCRIPTION

The school social worker is part of the school's student health team along with the principal, special educator, school nurse, special teacher, and school psychologist. The work at the school is primarily promotional and preventive and is based on all EHT staff having close collaboration with teachers and especially with students. You are employed by the principal at the school and are part of a group with all the municipality's school social workers who have regular meetings led by a coordinator. You will have regular supervision with an external supervisor.

You will work at the organizational, group, and individual levels through collaboration in the student health team, conversations with students, preventive work in classes, contact with guardians, and advice and guidance to teachers.

You will also collaborate with external partners such as BUP, social services, and UPH.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone with a degree in social work or another higher education degree that we consider equivalent, as well as experience working as a school social worker.

You have tools and methods to work proactively, preventively, and remedially with social relations among students aged 6-9 years. You have a systematic approach to your work with good structure and the ability to document important processes.

You contribute suggestions for promoting good mental health and social environments in the classrooms. Your role also includes working in classrooms with various themes or as needs arise. You actively work to prevent conflicts and support teachers in finding solutions in everyday life. You have good digital skills and stay updated in the field.

In the recruitment process, we will place great emphasis on personal suitability.

In this recruitment, we use selection questions, a number of questions that you answer in conjunction with your application. The answers to the questions are used as part of the selection process along with your CV. Your CV and answers to the questions should be formulated in Swedish.

To obtain employment, a certificate from the Police's criminal record must be presented.

OTHER

The position is filled subject to the necessary decisions being made. When applying, please indicate the schools you are interested in.

We would like to inform you that your application is a public document under the principle of public access. If you as an applicant have protected personal data, please send your application in paper form to:

Härryda municipality
Human Resources, Sofia Götberg
435 80 Mölnlycke

Your application will be handled according to the municipality's routine for handling protected personal data during recruitment and employment. Please indicate the reference number of the advertisement in your application so that we know which position you are applying for.

We see diversity as a strength and therefore welcome applicants from different backgrounds.

As a first priority, we prefer that you apply for the position through our recruitment system.

In preparation for the recruitment work, we have made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore kindly ask for no contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, or similar.

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