Child Secretary to Family Home Unit, Authority

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The employees of Welfare Gävle make Gävle safer for children, young people, and the elderly, people with disabilities, and those in vulnerable situations. We also work to create the best conditions for adult learning and personal development. We offer future professions that challenge and develop you, and you work with what is truly important. Together we make Gävle safer!

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are looking for a competent child secretary to join us at the Family Home Unit, Authority. Are you a trained social worker who enjoys investigating and is used to having complex conversations with the child in focus? Then you are the right person for us. Come and make Gävle meaningful.

As a child secretary, you are the responsible caseworker for a number of children and young people placed in family homes. Your primary task is to follow up on the child's development during the placement together with the family home secretary and to be responsible for all authority actions regarding the individual child under the Social Services Act (SoL) and the Act on Special Provisions concerning the Care of Young People (LVU). This involves regular follow-ups with the child as well as continuous collaboration with the child's parents, family home, school, and other networks. We place great emphasis on the children's health, schooling, and contact with their biological network.

We collaborate with the municipality's treatment units during visits between children and biological parents as well as during reunification. An important part of the work as a child secretary is to make the child's voice heard.

The Family Home Unit - Authority is a stable workgroup consisting of a unit manager, two deputy unit managers, 16 child secretaries, and an administrator. We are centrally located in Gävle and have close cooperation with the Family Home Unit - Support.

As a new employee, you will receive a mentor and be offered individual introduction. The group also has external supervision and internal support for supervision as needed.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone with a degree in social work. Since travel is involved in the position, you must have a driver's license for a manual transmission vehicle and driving experience. It is an advantage if you have experience in investigations and if you have experience in follow-up work regarding children and young people placed in family homes. If you also have training in Sign and Safety, it is desirable.

As a person, you have the ability to see what needs to be prioritized, are efficient, and use resources to achieve results in the best way. You have an unpretentious approach in your collaboration with others. Furthermore, you adapt to different situations and have the ability to change your perspective and approach. You see opportunities in changes.

To succeed in your role as a child secretary, you can express yourself and interact with others in speech and writing. You adapt your language to different situations, purposes, and recipients and have linguistic security in both speech and writing.

In accordance with Gävle municipality's values, you have a good attitude, a strong ability to collaborate, and care about high quality in your work.

Welcome to apply to us!

OTHER

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process in Gävle municipality and to enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally via Visma Recruit and not via email or paper format.

If you are applying for a part-time position with us, there is a decision within Gävle municipality that allows you, as a permanent employee, to request to work full-time. Such a request may mean that you may need to perform other tasks than your regular ones.

Gävle municipality belongs to the Finnish administrative area. Therefore, if you also speak Finnish in addition to our other competency requirements, it can be an advantage.

Warm welcome with your application!

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