Do you want to help make Gävle even better with us?

In Gävle Municipality, we work together with commitment to offer our residents a safe and inspiring environment. We offer you a trustworthy workplace where you can develop in your work and grow as a person. Welcome with your application!

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

We are now expanding our operations with three competent child secretaries to our Family Home Unit, Authority. Are you a trained social worker and used to having complex conversations with the child in focus? Then you are the right person for us. Come and make Gävle meaningful.

Our driving force is that every child should grow up in a safe and loving environment. To provide the best support for both children and foster homes, we constantly work to develop and drive foster care with the child's best interests as our guiding star.

We are now facing an exciting development phase where we want to strengthen our operations further. Therefore, we are looking for new employees who share our commitment and conviction that every child deserves a meaningful and safe upbringing. Together we want to build an even stronger team, filled with competence, warmth, and the will to make a real difference.

As a child secretary, you are the responsible caseworker for a number of foster care placed children and young people. Your primary task is to follow up on the child's development during the placement together with the foster care secretary and to be responsible for all authority exercises regarding the individual child with the support of the Social Services Act (SoL) and the Act on Special Provisions concerning the Care of Young People (LVU). This means regular follow-ups with the child as well as continuous collaboration with the child's parents, foster home, school, and other networks. We place great emphasis on the participation of children/youth in care, 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 and during reunification. An important part of the work as a child secretary is to make the child's voice heard and to ensure that the child feels involved in community care.

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

Working with foster care means being part of something bigger, a shared mission to change lives. Do you want to help drive the work forward with us? Warm welcome with your application!

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone with a degree in social work. Since the position involves travel, it is required that you have a driver's license for a manual transmission vehicle and driving experience. Experience in follow-up work concerning foster care placed children and young people is an advantage, as is previous work with long-term contacts within child and youth care. Some investigative experience is also advantageous. If you have training in Sign and Safety as well as taping, 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 possible. 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 both speech and writing. You need to enjoy meeting and conversing with the placed children/youth and be available as a caseworker over time. You adapt your language to different situations, purposes, and recipients and have linguistic security in both speech and writing.

Every child should grow up in a safe and loving environment. Do you want to help create that? Then we welcome you to our team, so we can become stronger together and make a difference for our foster care placed children.

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.

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, not via email or paper format. If you have a protected identity, please contact the recruiting manager, do not submit your application digitally.

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 competence requirements, it can be an advantage.

In preparation for the recruitment work, Gävle Municipality has taken a position on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore strongly request no contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.