Aneby Municipality – An Employer for the Future

Aneby municipality, a small and cozy municipality located in the Småland highlands, offers an inspiring work environment where you as an employee have the opportunity to make a difference in people's lives. Our vision, "A good life in a sustainable and growing municipality", permeates everything we do. We value openness, development, and responsibility, and strive for a workplace where everyone can grow and thrive.

The authority unit in Aneby municipality consists of three teams: the children/youth team, the adult team, and the assistance team. We work closely together and actively collaborate with open care and schools to ensure good coordination and a holistic view. We cherish a positive work environment with a focus on community and joy at work, including flexible working hours, the opportunity to work from home, external supervision, and options for wellness.

In our small municipality, the opportunities to influence and participate in development are significant, creating a meaningful work environment.

We offer:

New and modern premises: We are moving into fresh and safe premises that promote collaboration and a good work environment.
Development opportunities: The children/youth team is part of the national Career Journey, which gives us opportunities for good professional introduction and regular skills development. As an employee in the foster care group, you will also have the opportunity for training in ICDP (Guiding Interaction) at both individual and group levels.
An inclusive work culture: In the workgroup, we care for each other, have a good sense of humor, and take joint responsibility for our mission. This is our strength.

Read more about why you should work in Aneby municipality, our employee benefits, our values, and your future colleagues on our website: www.aneby.se/jobbahososs (http://www.aneby.se/jobbahososs).

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Being a foster care secretary in Aneby municipality means recruiting, investigating, advising, and supporting foster homes both individually and in groups. If necessary, it also includes investigating and guiding other contractors. You will meet families both at the office and in their homes, both individually and together with placement supervisors. Together with the placement supervisors, you work to ensure that the child, the biological parents, and the foster home receive the support needed for the placed child to have their needs met. The work may involve travel to foster homes and time outside the office. The target group also includes unaccompanied children for whom the social services are responsible. In our foster care group, there is one more foster care secretary with whom you share your mission, as well as two placement supervisors. Your closest colleagues also include receivers and investigators within children and youth. We are a small group with a strong team spirit that has worked hard in recent years focusing on workplace issues and establishing a stable and well-functioning foster care.

With us, you will work with a high degree of team spirit, supported by legislation, guidelines, and practices. In your daily work, you will receive support and supervision from the unit manager and colleagues, as well as an external supervisor. The work is characterized by professionalism and good treatment, as well as responsiveness to the needs of children, youth, and families. We strive to enable change for the children and youth we meet, promote collaboration, and work with participation and quality in a respectful manner. Our goal is to reach good solutions together with the individual.

We are currently facing an exciting and intensive development effort to meet the transition to the new social services law. Based on becoming an increasingly knowledge-based, accessible, and preventive social service, we are facing, among other things, the development of our collaboration between schools, social services, police, and leisure, the start-up of a school social team, and educational initiatives within IRisk, ICDP (Guiding Interaction), and observations/treatment in the home environment.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone with a degree in social work or another equivalent university degree and/or experience. Preferably with experience in social work with children, youth, and families, as well as knowledge of the Social Services Act. Previous work with children and youth and/or foster care is meritorious. Further training in the foster care area, as well as experience working with ICDP, A Lasting Relationship, BRA-Fam, and BBIC is also considered advantageous.

We place great emphasis on personal suitability and that you stand behind the municipality's values; openness, development, and responsibility. A driver's license (B) is a requirement for the position. To succeed in the role, you need to have good documentation skills, as well as the ability to gather information, compile, analyze, and evaluate different courses of action and make an assessment that leads to proposals. This requires a good empathetic ability and that you are flexible, creative, relationship-building, and innovative to find the right solutions.

As a foster care secretary with us, you need to have a good ability to work both independently and together with others in a team, and you need to be able to listen to different perspectives. You will meet people in several different contexts, which requires you to have a professional and respectful approach. We are committed to maintaining professionalism in all situations and support each other in that. You need to be good at building trusting relationships and reflecting together with colleagues and management over the challenges that arise. We assume that you have good collaboration skills.

We value your interest in learning and your involvement in developing the operations in all its parts.

Selection and interviews are ongoing, so do not wait to apply. Employment may occur before the application period has expired. Before employment is offered, an extract from the criminal record and suspicion register, any degree certificate, and Swedish citizenship/work permit must be presented.

Become a part of our team and contribute to the future of Aneby municipality! We look forward to your application.