Field Worker at Alvesta Municipality

Alvesta Municipality, with approximately 20,000 inhabitants — the center of southern Sweden — integrates local living with global opportunities. A position built on high-quality municipal services, a successful business community, and a good mix of urban and rural areas. Add to that a strong infrastructure with railways, airports, and a well-developed road network, and you will understand why Alvesta Municipality is the right choice.

Big enough for ideas to be born and developed
Small enough for everyone to be seen and appreciated, with short decision-making paths

In Alvesta municipal group, we have about 2,000 employees in various professional categories who work every day to make a difference for our residents. Our common value base is, “Together we create a better everyday life for our residents and ourselves as employees. We develop through good meetings and open dialogue. We achieve this through our value base, which is built on “Participation, Engagement, and Trust.” Our focus is to create the best possible municipal service for those we are here for; residents, entrepreneurs, and visitors. Alvesta Municipality operates based on a governance model that emphasizes trust-based management and governance with a focus on Agenda 2030. Do you want to join us on our exciting journey aimed at sustainable community development?

JOB DESCRIPTION

As a field worker, you will work proactively, advisory, and supportive with children and youth. You will find yourself in environments where children and youth are present. The goal is to intervene early to break destructive antisocial behavior among children and youth in Alvesta Municipality. You will need to implement interventions at the community, group, and individual levels, and the entire Alvesta Municipality will be your work area. Field workers build relationships and proactively engage by getting to know children and youth in different areas based on the conditions of those areas.

In Alvesta Municipality, we have area groups in Vislanda, Moheda, Alvesta older, and Alvesta younger, aimed at creating local situational analyses and based on these, proposing preventive and promotional measures and implementing them. As a field worker, you are part of the area groups and play an important role in coordinating interventions.

The meeting with children, youth, and parents is based on voluntariness, trust, and respect to early detect any needs for support among children and youth and, if necessary, guide them to the right contacts and interventions. In this role, accessibility and continuity are crucial for both residents and partners. Therefore, the work occurs both during the day, in the evenings, and on weekends. This also means that you will often be out where children, youth, and parents are, which means that no day is the same, and meetings can occur in many different places, both physical and digital.

Examples of tasks:

Preventive, health-promoting, and outreach work in child and youth environments.
Interventions on demand, for example, in schools or with associations based on identified needs in the area groups.
Organize and participate in parent and association meetings.
Advisory and support conversations with youth, guardians, and other significant individuals, for example, regarding alcohol/drugs, crime, mental health, life choices.
Work with structured programs for youth, with various themes such as friendship, violence, consent, alcohol/drugs, life choices.

Part of your position will be scheduled for evenings and weekends.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone with an academic degree in social pedagogy, a social work degree, or another suitable university degree in the relevant field. You are good at establishing good contacts, are trustworthy, and have the ability to detect children and youth who are at risk. Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability. We expect you to be a secure person with good personal maturity and that you contribute to a good working climate. You are expected to have the ability to collaborate with colleagues as well as other internal and external actors. Furthermore, you have a good ability to work independently and are flexible and resilient in your work. We are looking for someone who can contribute to equal treatment and create an inclusive environment in their workplace. Experience in fieldwork, IFO, schools, or related areas is an advantage. You need to have a strong interest in developing our preventive and health-promoting work. A manual B driver's license is required.