Värmland County Care Association

Värmland County Care Association is a municipal association where the 16 municipalities of Värmland are members. The association operates HVB activities in several areas and is a player in the overall development work regarding harmful use/dependence in the county. The Dependency Center Värmland is jointly operated with Region Värmland for the target group of adults with harmful use/dependence and in need of abstinence care. Riddarnäset is an integrated operation where we, together with Region Värmland, conduct HVB for young people aged 13-20. Flöjten is our acute and investigative home targeting children aged 0-12. The association also organizes courses and conferences in the area of harmful use/dependence and, together with Region Värmland and the municipalities of the county, has a mission to jointly develop work on harmful use/dependence in Värmland.

Description

Would you like to start working at our new HVB home for adults?

Kvarnbackens HVB, which is set to open in November 2025, is a collaboration between Värmland County Care Association and Region Värmland (Adult Psychiatry).

This means that all staff, treatment assistants, cooks, work instructors, nurses, psychologists, occupational therapists, and doctors work integrated. All to ensure that our clients receive the best care, support, and treatment for their difficulties in life.

HVB Kvarnbacken will accommodate up to 14 clients, adults from 20 years old with harmful use and dependence combined with mental health issues.

The staff group consists of doctors, nurses, psychologists, occupational therapists, treatment assistants, treatment consultants, work instructors, and cooks.

Kvarnbacken offers a unique opportunity to work with care and treatment in an integrated operation in a fantastic environment. Kvarnbacken is located in Forshaga municipality, specifically Mölnbacka Herrgård.

The treatment will cover areas that are assessed to hinder the client and contribute to as independent a life as possible. There will be access to, in addition to health and medical care, school, internships, various psychoeducational interventions, and treatment programs.

We are convinced that our integrated operation increases the conditions for a cohesive care chain and qualified care and treatment.

We now need to hire 2 treatment consultants.

Responsibilities

As a treatment consultant, you will have coordination responsibility for the daily treatment work with the clients. Together with other staff, you are responsible for ensuring that the treatment planning is implemented and followed up. The work includes collaboration with the client's family/network, social services caseworkers, as well as other authorities and other important contacts. Ongoing follow-up of others' and your own documentation, journal notes, final notes, etc. is included. This means that you should be able to express yourself well in speech and writing in Swedish.

The time spent with clients during their placement at Kvarnbacken has clear goals and purposes, which means that you have a special responsibility for ensuring that implementation plans are established and that assessments, investigations, treatments, and structured activities during work shifts with clients individually or in groups, as well as discharge, take place. You, as a treatment consultant, are also expected to participate in all activities that clients should/can perform, both theoretical and practical in nature.

In the role of treatment consultant, you are expected to assist the unit manager in the leadership and development of Kvarnbacken's operations, which includes participation in on-call duties.

Qualifications

Social worker or other equivalent post-secondary education that we assess as equivalent. It is advantageous if you have experience in both municipal social services and previous work in HVB operations.

We place great emphasis on your personal qualities and previous experience working as a treatment consultant/coordinator within social services, HVB, or similar fields.

We see that you, as a person, easily create contact with clients, are flexible, proactive, and have high stress tolerance as well as very good collaboration skills. The work can be demanding at times, which requires calmness and endurance from you as a person.

Knowledge of harmful use and dependence, psychiatry/neuropsychiatry, and psychosocial treatment methods for individuals with harmful use and dependence.

You have good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written.

A driver's license is a requirement.

Meritorious:

• Experience working in HVB homes.
• Experience working in an environment where different cultures and approaches meet.
• Training in mapping instruments, primarily ASI, AUDIT/DUDIT.
• Training in treatment programs, primarily MI, CRA, ESL, and ÅP.

Conditions

A valid extract from the police's suspicion and criminal record for HVB homes is required.

Probationary employment may be applied.

Working hours are primarily during the day, but some shifts may be scheduled for evenings/weekends.

Welcome with your application! We ask that you submit your application via our recruitment tool on our website. Information on how we handle your personal data can be found here (https://www.forshaga.se/GDPR). If for any reason you cannot apply (e.g., protected identity), please contact the contact person for alternative application methods. We kindly ask for no calls from staffing and recruitment companies or sellers of job advertisements.