Vacant job

Description

Do you want to work in a stimulating, engaging, and positive work environment? Are you creative and want to develop an operation together with positive colleagues? Then you are the right person for us!

There are many things that make one thrive in a workplace.

We thrive because we have a solid commitment to our clients, but also because we take care of each other based on a sustainability mindset.

A defined success factor within social services work is close leadership. The organization is characterized by close leadership between employees, the senior social worker, and the unit manager.

Job Responsibilities

The work consists of recruiting and investigating foster homes and contact families/persons for children and youth contractors. The work also includes being responsible for the follow-up of foster homes and guiding and supporting them in their tasks in close collaboration with the child's/youth's social worker and partners. Furthermore, the position includes handling financial calculations of compensation to foster homes and establishing agreements between the board and the foster homes.

The position involves travel, sometimes long-distance.

Qualifications

We are looking for someone with a degree in social work or equivalent qualifications and knowledge in system- and network-oriented work as well as BBIC. You should have experience in social work within individual and family care. The ability to maintain structure is a prerequisite for fulfilling the assignment.

Previous experience in handling foster homes and supervisor training is an advantage. It is expected that you are engaged in your area of responsibility and interested in method and operational development. We expect you to be an empathetic and secure person with good personal maturity and collaboration skills who can work independently as well as together with colleagues and contribute to a good work climate. You should have a good ability for reflection and analysis and be able to motivate and make decisions. The work requires a good ability to express oneself well in both speech and writing as the work contains requirements for legally secure handling.

A valid driver's license (B) is a requirement.

Recruitment may begin during the application period, so do not wait to apply.

When applying for a position within the Social Services, you must be prepared to present an extract from the criminal record before the position is filled.

Warm welcome to the community at IFO in Vänersborg!

Military Placement

If you are applying for a position with us that is subject to military placement, you will receive information about this in connection with your employment.

Other

The municipality of Vänersborg - attractive and sustainable in all aspects, throughout life.

Our values: Alive, attractive, sustainable - together

Diversity is the norm! With us, diversity is positive; we are all different, and that is an asset. We also actively work to create a sustainable working life, which is why we have smoke-free working hours at all our workplaces.

The municipality utilizes our time's opportunities to provide new employees with an introduction right at the start! Are you curious to try the introduction now and learn more about how we work in Vänersborg municipality? Start the introduction (http://introduktion.vanersborg.se/) by selecting a section and entering your name to receive a diploma after completing the introduction. Your name is not registered anywhere.

Are you curious to learn more about us as an employer and what benefits we offer? Visit our job page (http://jobb.vanersborg.se/) and the page work in Vänersborg municipality (https://www.vanersborg.se/naringsliv-och-arbete/arbetsmarknad/jobba-i-vanersborgs-kommun).

Contact information for your union organization can be found here (https://www.vanersborg.se/naringsliv-och-arbete/arbetsmarknad/fackliga-organisationer).

The municipality has made active choices in this recruitment and therefore does not wish to be contacted with offers of advertising and recruitment assistance/competence mediation.