Vacant job

When you work in Halmstad municipality, you help shape, strengthen, and enrich the everyday lives of others. Your contribution is meaningful to us - whoever you are. We are looking for you who want to contribute to a better Halmstad.

Halmstad is an expanding municipality where we work to ensure that our 105,000 residents thrive and get more out of life. Here, there are opportunities for you who want a meaningful job and to contribute with commitment and innovation. Together with 10,000 colleagues, you are helping to build the hometown, knowledge city, and experience city. Read more about us here (https://www.halmstad.se/intro).

The Social Administration works to provide support and help to children, young people, families, and individuals with disabilities or dependency problems. We also work with outreach and preventive measures. Fundamental to us is that we meet each other in a respectful manner – both our users and among ourselves as employees.

Do you want to make a real difference for children and young people in Halmstad? Are you an engaged social worker looking for new challenges? Then apply for the position of child caseworker and contribute with your experience in foster care!

We have flexible working hours and offer wellness benefits.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Are you a person who wants to influence the care for the most vulnerable children and young people in our society? Do you want to make a real difference?

In your role as a child caseworker within foster care, you will primarily work to follow up on the care of children and young people placed in foster homes. You will work under both SoL and LVU. In your daily work, you will ensure that placed children and young people have their needs and rights met. You will meet the child/youth regularly and conduct child conversations, safety assessments, and make assessments regarding contact with parents. You will work to ensure that children placed away from their parents are involved in their own care and understand why they are placed. Furthermore, you will handle ongoing documentation in the case, make considerations and reassessments of care, as well as investigations that occur during the placement. You will work closely with foster care caseworkers on cases. Together, you will receive support and supervision from a senior social worker.

For us, it is important that you are a team player who can also work independently. We want each other's success and help each other to reach our goals; teamwork is important to us. You will receive regular methodological supervision, external supervision, and be offered relevant training. We are part of the Professional Journey. The school coordinator will assist you with questions regarding schooling and collaboration with the school to help children succeed in their studies.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone with a degree in social work and experience working with authority and with placed children and young people, as well as experience working with BBiC.

It is an advantage if you have worked with Signs of Safety and the documentation system Life Care, as well as network work.

You have a clear child perspective in your work and you work to ensure that children are involved based on their circumstances depending on their age and maturity. It is important to us that you value creating and maintaining good relationships, both internally and externally. We are looking for positive, engaged, and creative individuals who want to work within foster care.

We work thematically, and our workgroup is divided into two teams. The teams are led by their own senior secretary and unit manager. Within the workgroup, there are also social advisors who work with enhanced foster care and school coordinators.

Do you want to become one of us? Apply for the position and get the opportunity to learn more about us and our unit. Perhaps this is your next dream job. We apply rolling selection, which means that we may contact and interview candidates during the application period.

A driving license and willingness to drive in the service is a requirement.

OTHER

Halmstad municipality applies a smoke-free working time.

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process at Halmstad municipality and to enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally.

We value the qualities that a balanced age and gender distribution, as well as ethnic and cultural diversity, contribute to the organization. We therefore welcome applicants who contribute to this.

Before employment, you need to show that you have the right to work, which is required under the Aliens Ordinance. You do this by proving your citizenship in the EU/EES or Switzerland through a passport, national ID card, or personal certificate along with an identity document. If you cannot do this, you need to present a work permit or demonstrate that you are exempt from the requirement for a work permit.

The position is filled on the condition that it is not claimed by surplus staff.

We kindly decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this advertisement.

Warm welcome with your application!