Vacant job

The city of Västerås has removed the personal letter from the application process. We do this to achieve a better and fairer recruitment process. When you submit your application, you will be asked to answer a number of questions that will become an important part of our selection work.

By supporting and guiding foster homes that open their homes to children and young people in vulnerable situations, you play a crucial role in creating safety for placed children. Together in the foster home unit, we contribute to a workplace characterized by commitment, responsibility, and care.

Your tasks

The unit works with the recruitment, investigation, training, and guidance of emergency and foster homes. We also find suitable HVB homes, support accommodations, contact families, and contact persons when children and young people need it. The unit's mission includes finding and matching abused adults and their children to protected accommodations. The workgroup is divided into three teams. We are now recruiting for the team that works with emergency placements of children in emergency homes, HVB, and support accommodations, as well as those in need of protection who need to come to protected accommodations.

Your mission includes, among other things, recruiting and investigating prospective emergency homes, matching children in need of placement to the right family, managing contracts and finances for contractors, and providing support and guidance. If necessary, you will also assist colleagues with placements in HVB or protected accommodations. You will have close collaboration with other units within social services, such as child caseworkers in the authority units, the unit for violence in close relationships, and, where applicable, with outpatient care and social emergency services.

Your competence

Your strengths include creating good relationships and acting flexibly and responsively in your cases with good judgment. You take great responsibility for your work and have a fine ability to handle changes in pace. In more acute situations, you act calmly, methodically, and seek help when needed. You have experience in social work and may have also worked with authority enforcement and with children and young people. If you are used to working with foster homes, it is an advantage.

Your educational background is a degree in social work or another behavioral science degree with the following advanced courses: social work (basic 7.5 credits and advanced 7.5 credits), social law, and administrative law 7.5 credits, and psychology 7.5 credits. Given that this is an authority enforcement role, you have a good ability to express yourself in Swedish, both orally and in writing. Since our foster homes are geographically spread out, you must have a B driver's license.

We offer

We offer a workplace with solid expertise in the field and great commitment to foster care. We are 27 employees, three team leaders, and a unit manager. Our common approach is based on trauma-informed care (TMO). We tailor the introduction for new employees based on competence and previous experiences to enable a good start in your new role. In everyday life, we benefit from each other's knowledge, and you have the support of team leaders and colleagues. We have supervision from an external supervisor once a month.

You have great opportunities to plan your working hours yourself; we apply flexible working hours, and there are possibilities for remote work when the job allows. Our workplace is located in activity-based premises in the Social Services house, where we have close collaboration with other units.

Here, you become part of something bigger! With warmth and respect, we show initiative in both the big and small. We live our values in our interactions with each other and those we serve. Every day, all year round, we ensure that Västerås functions. Together with your approximately 11,500 colleagues throughout the city, you will have Sweden's most important job.

Read more about opportunities, career paths, and our offerings here: https://www.vasteras.se/jobbochkarriär (https://www.vasteras.se/jobbochkarri%C3%A4r)

Other information

Please attach proof of study with your application.

Before you can be employed, you need to present an approved extract from the police's criminal record.

In connection with the interview, you need to verify your citizenship. You can do this with a passport or a personal certificate along with an ID document. If you are not a citizen of Sweden, the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, you must present that you have a valid work permit or are exempt from the obligation to have a work permit. Employment can only occur after verification of the work permit, which is required according to the Aliens Ordinance. All offers of recruitment and advertising assistance are declined.

Warm welcome to your application!