Family Therapist for MST Team in Järva

Stockholm – our capital city with millions of dreams, expectations, and ambitions. We work for everyone living here today and in the future. Now we are looking for you who want to think big, new, and differently with us – for the people of Stockholm.

Welcome to us

Welcome to Järva and to Open Care for Children and Youth 3.

We are a unit within the Open Care for Children and Youth area that invests in exciting development work and aims to make a change that makes a difference for our children and families.

With us at Open Care for Children and Youth, you will work in a pleasant and development-oriented open care that offers high-quality services to children, youth, and their families. User participation, children's involvement, and our constant development and improvement of our work are important to us.

At our unit, we are now starting up another MST team, MST-Nord. This time to be able to offer all of the city's districts and residents this evidence-based intervention highlighted in the National Board of Health and Welfare's knowledge support. Also linked to the new social services transformation goals, it is emphasized that social services should be knowledge-based and conduct operations in accordance with science and proven experience. MST is an intervention that fits this description well! Our new MST team will work with the districts of Bromma, Hässelby-Vällingby, Kungsholmen, and Northern Inner City. However, the team's fixed workplace and employment are in Järva, Kista.

Multisystemic therapy is an evidence-based family treatment intervention where the working method is aimed at breaking norm-breaking behaviors in a youth by working for change in the systems surrounding the youth. The fundamental work takes place in the family system. More information about the method can be found at www.mstsverige.se (http://www.mstsverige.se).

The team consists of four family therapist positions and a group leader. We are now looking for three new employees as the group leader and one therapist are already in place. Welcome with your application!

We offer

We offer you the opportunity to be part of the startup of a new team that works with the districts that have not yet had the privilege of offering their residents this intervention. You will work with one of the evidence-based methods highlighted in the National Board of Health and Welfare's knowledge support. The target group is interesting, and you will have a great opportunity to make a difference. The work is independent, flexible, and challenging, and the method, colleagues in the team, and the group leader provide important support for you as a therapist. You will also have the opportunity to receive support through mentorship from the already existing MST team.

The team has method supervision every week, as well as individual support as needed. As a newcomer to the method, you will be offered basic training in MST. The team also has quarterly boosters and further training in the method. As an employee in this team, you will have an SL card in service as a salary benefit and a wellness allowance.

At our open care units, Children and Youth 1, 2, and 3, we have several different teams, with different target groups and working methods. Therefore, the opportunity for collegial learning and inspiration is great.

Your role

As a family therapist in an MST team, you will work with goals that may involve criminality, risk behavior, high school absenteeism, aggression, and other norm-breaking behaviors in the youth. Your work is to work together with the family, the young person themselves, and the private and professional network around the family to reduce risk factors and increase protective factors. The therapist works both intensively and flexibly with a few families at a time. The work is home-based, which means that most meetings take place in the families' homes. The position includes scheduled on-call duty via phone. This is compensated according to the collective agreement General Terms and Conditions.

Your qualifications and experience

We are looking for you who have:

• A degree in social work or another higher education that the employer assesses as equivalent.
• Experience in psychosocial treatment work with children, youth, and parents.

It is meritorious if you have:

• CBT training
• Experience in the social services' authority operations.
• Good knowledge of English both orally and in writing as some of the supervision and training may take place in English.
• A B driver's license, as some of the travels may be done by car.

We are looking for you who are structured and have a great ability to drive a change process towards goals. You also need to be engaged and good at building relationships with families and partners. You are also flexible and have a strong problem-solving analytical ability.

Your application

We recruit without a personal letter in this recruitment to strengthen the focus on the competencies and experiences requested for this role. In assessing your application, we will only base it on your CV and a number of questions you will be asked to answer when applying for the position. We wish that you respond concretely and briefly to the questions, and that there is a clear connection between your answers and your CV. The City of Stockholm works with competency-based recruitment aimed at ensuring each person's competence and thereby counteracting discrimination.

Welcome to Järva Social Services!

To meet today's and tomorrow's challenges, Järva Social Services was established in 2023. In our social services, we develop support and services focusing on all Järva residents. Our operations are characterized by cooperation, courage, empathy, and respectful treatment. We strive for open communication and respect for differences, and we believe that diversity and a balanced gender distribution contribute to developing our operations. We hope that you who are applying want to develop together with us.

Here you can read more about Järva Social Services. (https://start.stockholm/om-stockholms-stad/organisation/stadsdelsforvaltningar/jarva/)