Job Advertisement: Staff for the School Social Team

Sundsvall Municipality has approximately 8,000 employees and is significant for our society. We are Sundsvall's largest employer with several workplaces across various operations and around 300 different professions.

Within the Department of Children and Education, our approximately 3,000 employees meet around 16,000 children and students in more than 130 units every day. Here, there is an opportunity to provide them with the conditions for continued learning and development. The politicians' and the administration's goals and direction are that all children and students in Sundsvall Municipality's preschools and schools should have equal opportunities to develop, achieve their goals, and become active citizens with many opportunities in life.

The municipality has a significant mission to create benefits for all our residents. Regardless of the operation, we work towards the same goal: to be a good place to live, thrive, and work.

Sundsvall Municipality is in an exciting phase. Our municipality is part of the green transition in Northern Sweden, where a large establishment is underway that will lead to many new jobs and thus many new residents. We are fully preparing by, among other things, preparing land, creating new educational places, marketing the municipality, and welcoming new residents from all over the world.

The Social Services are responsible under the Social Services Act for providing children, youth, and their families with the support they need and ensuring they grow up under safe conditions. A functioning school attendance is an important protective factor against exclusion and ill health. Therefore, we are establishing four school social teams in the municipality based on cross-professional collaboration between schools and social services. The goal is to strengthen students' opportunities to achieve school goals, increase attendance, create safety, and break unfavorable development.

We are now looking for two staff members for one of these school social teams who will work with high school students based on the Introduction Programs.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

As part of the school social team, you will work preventively with early interventions to increase school attendance and strengthen students' opportunities to achieve educational goals. You will collaborate with schools, social services, and other stakeholders, focusing on the student, school, family, and leisure.

In the team, you will:

• Work closely with students, school staff, social services, guardians, and other stakeholders.
• Coordinate support for students from schools, social services, and other stakeholders.
• Offer psychosocial support, motivational conversations, social training, and help create structure.
• Support and guide guardians.
• Work with preventive measures and training for parent groups or staff.

Each school social team consists of two staff members, one from the Department of Children and Education and one from the Department of Individual and Labor Market. The teams collaborate to support the student, family, and school and primarily work out in the schools. A steering group leads the process, and a working group plans and follows up the work.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for staff who have appropriate education, experience, and personal suitability for the assignment. We see that you:

• Have a degree in social work, social pedagogy, behavioral science, or another higher education/university degree that the employer deems equivalent, preferably with experience in motivational and family-supportive work.
• Have good knowledge of schools and social services and of collaboration between the two sectors.
• Have documented experience working with children and youth and a genuine interest in young people and their networks.
• Have a B driver's license.

It is advantageous to have previous experience in family treatment within social services or work in primary school as a school counselor or social pedagogue.

To succeed in the assignment, it is also important that you:

• Are good at seeing opportunities and have strong self-leadership skills.
• Are flexible in your working method, focusing on the best interests of the student.
• Are comfortable taking your own initiatives and independently structuring and driving your work.
• Are professional in your interactions and actions.
• Have good empathetic skills and are receptive to others' perspectives.
• Have the ability and willingness to work on relationship-building, are comfortable conducting various types of conversations with students and guardians.
• Are confident in guiding and collaborating with school staff, guardians, etc.
• Can work in a structured and systematic manner both in daily operational work and documentation.
• Are a team player who enjoys working in a team.

Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability beyond educational requirements.

Please indicate in your application if you are primarily interested in working in the family-supportive part of the school social team (social services) or school support (Department of Children and Education).

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Upon request, certificates/degree certificates/study certificates/teacher qualifications that prove you have the right qualifications for the position must be submitted.

Those offered employment must provide a valid extract from the police criminal record according to SFS 2000:873. The form for ordering an extract from the criminal record can be found at www.polisen.se (http://www.polisen.se).

The position will be filled under the condition that no surplus occurs within another part of the municipality that makes it filled that way.

We strive for a drug-free work environment, and drug testing may occur upon hiring of staff. We apply smoke-free working hours.

In Sundsvall Municipality, we appreciate diversity and welcome employees from different backgrounds. We value the benefits that gender balance and diversity bring to our operations and work to ensure that our workplaces are accessible to all.

To quality assure the recruitment process in Sundsvall Municipality and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to apply for the position through the link in this advertisement.

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