Your Workplace

We are looking for someone who wants to make a real difference for children and families! We seek an experienced, driven, and committed individual who is open to different perspectives and wants to create long-term sustainable solutions for children and their families. In Härryda, you will have the opportunity to work in a pleasant and collaborative environment where your work truly makes a difference every day.

Within the unit for investigation and protection, we work in qualified reception, investigation, and follow-up work according to current legislation. BBiC (children's needs in focus) and Signs of Safety permeate all our work, as we explore networks and their own solutions together with families, always with the child's safety and best interests as the starting point. You drive processes forward by being structured, curious, and brave.

The unit for investigation and protection consists of a reception, two investigation groups, a high-intensity investigation group, and the social services' domestic violence team. The area of operation also includes the prevention unit and the family support and foster care unit, which enables close collaboration and the right help at the right time. We are expanding our investigation groups to allow more time for client work – for real!

Our unit is characterized by respect, safety, courage, curiosity, and joy at work. We share this with our colleagues in preventive and execution units. Together, we actively work on the work environment, well-being, everyone's participation, and competence development. With us, you will be part of a genuinely pleasant, caring, unpretentious, and competent workgroup.

Your Mission

In your role as an investigative social worker, you will meet children, youth, and families at the social office and in various environments where children have their daily lives. You will use the BBiC method to map and analyze the child's needs and the Signs of Safety approach to find sustainable solutions to challenging situations together with the family and network, for example, during network meetings.

You will follow up and evaluate decided interventions. You will have close collaboration with colleagues within the municipality and with partners in various areas of operation. You will actively participate and contribute to the development of the organization.

Requirements for the Position

Mandatory:

• You have a degree in social work (210 credits)
• Driver's license B
• Experience in investigative work/exercise of authority

Meritorious:

• Training in BBiC, Signs of Safety, Ester, Savry, systems theory, MI, ViNR, or honor-related violence and threats
• Experience in social work with children and youth

For employment in authority-exercising positions, a background check will be conducted, including an extract from the police criminal record and study extracts from universities or colleges.

Your Personal Qualities Are Important to Us

You are knowledgeable, analytical, and have a clear child focus but are also kind, caring, and secure in yourself. You can adapt to changing circumstances, are patient, and are keen to drive client processes forward. You are good at collaborating with others and have the ability to work independently. You demonstrate good judgment and a positive view of people with a respectful approach. You want to contribute to maintaining our positive work environment and wonderful atmosphere.

In your work, it is important that you can express yourself well in speech and writing and that you adapt your communication to the situation and target group.

Great importance will be placed on personal suitability.

What We Offer You

• You feel secure at work and in your role
• You have the conditions to do meaningful work with fewer cases per position
• You receive continuous support and guidance from the senior social worker
• You participate and contribute to internal method guidance and external process guidance together with your group
• You have co-workers available when needed or requested
• You can be a mentor for and co-worker to colleagues
• As a new employee, you will receive a secure introduction according to our introduction program
• You have access to support functions such as IT service desk a few floors up, social law lawyers as well, and our administrative support is in the same corridor

You Develop and Feel Job Satisfaction

Here, there are good development opportunities for further education and professional development in evidence-based methods based on interest and the needs of the organization.

The Little Extra That Is Obvious to Us

• You have a permanent workplace, in your own or shared room, and close to accessible management and supervisors
• We have flexible working hours and the possibility to work one day a week from home
• Competitive salary
• Benefits such as a generous wellness allowance
• Additionally, breakfast buffet and afternoon fruit are served every day for a small cost

Read more on our website about what we offer you. (https://www.harryda.se/arbete/arbetaiharrydakommun/detharerbjudervidig.4.4bd770a51817ff14fcd13400.html (https://www.harryda.se/arbete/arbetaiharrydakommun/detharerbjudervidig.4.4bd770a51817ff14fcd13400.html))

About Härryda Municipality

Härryda is a municipality that dares! Our municipality is small enough to create close and sustainable collaboration with other professionals and large enough to make wise investments where needed. Our offices are located in the Härryda municipal building, in Mölnlycke center, where it is close to grocery stores, restaurants, local transport (20 minutes to central Gothenburg), and free parking.

Other Information

We would like to inform you that your application is a public document according to the principle of public access. If you, as an applicant, have protected personal information, please send your application in paper form to: Härryda Municipality, HR Department, Sofia Götberg, 435 80 Mölnlycke. Your application will be handled according to the municipality's routine for handling protected personal information during recruitment and employment. Please indicate the reference number of the advertisement in your application so we know which position you are applying for.