Coordinator for School Social Workers in Jönköping Municipality

Jönköping Municipality is a large employer with hundreds of different professional roles. We are growing in line with the city's development, with more residents, more housing, and a greater range of services. We are always on the lookout for new talent - employees with diverse backgrounds and experiences, united by the common drive to create a better city to visit, live, work, and reside in.

Your New Job

We are looking for an engaged and driven coordinator for the school social workers in the primary and secondary schools in Jönköping Municipality.

Do you want to work to ensure the quality of the psychosocial competence within student health? You will do this by driving development work to create an accessible learning environment, increased equity, and goal fulfillment for our students in primary and secondary school.

• You provide professional support to school social workers.
• You plan and coordinate professional networks and various improvement and development projects within the profession.
• You assist in the recruitment and onboarding of newly hired school social workers.
• You coordinate the work with student teachers received annually.
• You have a cross-administrative coordination responsibility for the ANDTS survey.
• You are also part of the assessment group for adapted schools.
• You create conditions for participation within your own professional group through dialogue.

The role requires good and clear communication skills, organizational ability, and the ability to build relationships.

In this position, you will collaborate with the coordinators of student health, other employees in central administration, and external partners.

Your Competence

We are looking for someone who is a trained social worker and has professional experience in social work. You have experience in development and change work and are accustomed to leading groups and processes. You find it easy to collaborate and build working relationships with people both internally and externally and possess good communication skills in both spoken and written form. You demonstrate respectful interaction with people and have good judgment and empathetic ability to understand others' perspectives and situations. You are engaged, professional, and proactive. You are also driven in quality work and documentation. As a person, you easily create personal relationships and work for safety and well-being. You have a positive attitude and take responsibility in your work. You see the organization as a whole and want to continue developing the psychosocial competence of student health in Jönköping Municipality.

Welcome to Us

At the student health unit in Jönköping Municipality, we have many different professions. Together with psychologists, speech therapists, school doctors, school nurses, and special educators, we work to give all students in Jönköping the same opportunity to succeed and achieve good results in school.

Here, you will find a workplace with engaged and competent colleagues, where we work according to our guiding principles; safety, learning, respect, joy, and community, as well as engagement and innovation. We care for each other and work to create a workplace where we all thrive and develop.

Read more about what it is like to work in Jönköping Municipality here (https://www.jonkoping.se/naringslivarbete/jobbaijonkopingskommun.4.74fef9ab15548f0b8001425.html).

Good to Know

To facilitate the recruitment process, we ask you to attach relevant certificates and grades for the position you are applying for. Please note that the Education Act requires all employees to present an extract from the criminal record.

More information about the criminal record (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/skola-eller-forskola/).

Want to Know More?

Kerstin Birgersson, head of the student health unit, phone. 036-10 29 23, kerstin.birgersson@jonkoping.se (mailto:kerstin.birgersson@jonkoping.se)

Jönköping Municipality strives to offer an attractive workplace that is free from discrimination and provides equal opportunities for all.

In preparation for the recruitment process, we have made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing. Therefore, we kindly but firmly decline all calls regarding advertising and recruitment assistance.