Family Home Team is looking for a Child Secretary

In Region Gotland, you can develop and grow, both as an individual and together with others. When you work with us, you contribute to making Gotland an even better place for people in all walks of life. We make each other better.

Unit for Family Homes and Family Law

We are a positive and committed team that values an open and inclusive atmosphere. Here we work with transparency, participation, and enjoy constantly developing. We have a close collaboration with both children, youth, and their families to find the best solutions together, always with the child's best interest in focus. When we encounter challenges, we support each other in the team, and we strive to be unpretentious and show care for both our colleagues and the families we meet.

Come and be a part of our team – here you will have the opportunity to grow, thrive, have fun, and make a difference!
Ps. We have a ping pong room and enjoy candy.

/Sandra, Sara, Heléne, Siri, Andreas, Susanne, Elin, and Torsten

This is what the child secretary group in the family home team says, which is now looking for a new colleague.

About the Position

The family home team is placed within the unit for family homes and family law within IFO and is responsible for all work concerning the children placed in family homes. The team consists of:

• Family home secretaries – some with special responsibility for recruitment, investigation, and training of new family homes and contact families, and the rest responsible for support and guidance of existing family homes. The group is led by a senior family home secretary.
• Child secretaries who are responsible for follow-up work with the placed children and contact with their parents and networks. The group is led by a senior child secretary. We have an administrative assistant and social assistant to relieve us so that time is freed up as much as possible for our main task; the social work.

All staff within IFO are trained according to Signs of Safety. This means that we work to ensure that children, families, and networks are involved in how problems can be solved. We believe in the person's own abilities and conditions to take control of their continued life. Through the Signs of Safety approach and various tools, along with a strong child rights perspective, we can create better conditions for sustainable solutions for those we meet. We will provide you with training in Signs of Safety if you do not have it.

Your Responsibilities

As a child secretary, you are responsible for monitoring care, recognizing and meeting the needs of the placed children through continuous meetings, conversations, and activities with the children and the people or actors who are important to them. You also have regular contact with the biological parents.

Your role means that you are responsible for the authority's exercise and thus all the administrative tasks involved in processing such as investigations, considerations/reassessments, record-keeping, and other documentation. Child secretaries and family home secretaries work in teams on all cases, and with the help of our school family team, you also work with the children's need for support in schoolwork both at school and in the family home. The position may involve some travel as some of our children are placed on the mainland.

Who are you?

You have a degree in social work and experience working with children and youth. A driver's license is required. If you have knowledge of and experience in investigative work and Signs of Safety, it is an advantage.

It is important that you have good collaboration skills and a humble attitude towards those we meet. You have the ability to put the child at the center and have good knowledge of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and children's rights. You should be able to express yourself well in writing and enjoy working both in teams and individually.

About the Social Administration

As part of Region Gotland, we work in the social administration with social interventions such as counseling, support, and treatment. Our areas of operation are social services, home healthcare, elderly care, and care for people with disabilities throughout Gotland. Around the clock, we meet people of all ages and with different needs; children, families, adults, and the elderly. Together, we enable good conditions for care, support, and service throughout life.

About Region Gotland

Region Gotland is not only Gotland's largest employer, but we are also the only region in Sweden that has municipal, health, and medical care responsibilities and regional development responsibilities within the same organization. This, along with our island location, creates conditions for good cooperation across our areas of operation.

We have over 7000 employees. Together we work for a sustainable, inclusive, and thriving society for everyone who visits, lives, and works in Gotland. We are driving the creation of a safe and sustainable development across the entire island.

Gotland is a fantastic place to live, with a rich cultural life, unspoiled nature, and a creative entrepreneurial spirit. We are over 61,000 people who have chosen to live here year-round, and we would love to have more! If you want information about Gotland as a place to live and work, read more at https://gotland.com/leva-bo/flytta-hit/ (https://gotland.com/leva-bo/flytta-hit/)

Through the Instagram account @viarregiongotland (https://instagram.com/viarregiongotland), we showcase the breadth of our professions and the significance of our work for society. Each week, a new employee presents their workday.

Other

Region Gotland works according to a competence-based recruitment method aimed at recognizing each person's competence and thus counteracting discrimination. We strive for an even gender distribution and see diversity as a strength and welcome applicants with different backgrounds and genders.

The position is announced under the condition that it does not need to be claimed by employees with preferential rights and that the position remains vacant.

As the world changes, Region Gotland is increasingly working with quality and safety in the recruitment process. This means that you as a candidate may be subject to certain checks before employment. You will receive information about which checks the position you are applying for may be subject to before or during the interview.

Before all employments, you as a candidate need to present ID and a personal certificate.

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