Child Welfare Officer and Foster Care Secretary in Knivsta

In Knivsta, the spirit of the future is palpable. The location between Stockholm and Uppsala, just a stone's throw from Arlanda, is attractive, and Knivsta is growing rapidly. Every day, we actively build a sustainable community with proximity to both the city and peaceful nature. Would you like to work in an innovative future municipality where you can develop and make a difference? And do you sympathize with our shared values of participation, engagement, and clarity? Welcome to us!

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

As a child welfare officer responsible for monitoring placed children, you work to ensure that each child receives the care, support, and security that the placement is intended to provide. You play a central role in following up on the child's situation through regular conversations with the child, visits to the foster home, and close dialogue with the child's guardians, foster parents, and other important people in the child's network. The work involves close collaboration with foster homes, open care, schools, healthcare, and other relevant actors to coordinate efforts and promote the child's development.

During the placement, new needs or risk factors may arise. You are responsible for conducting preliminary assessments, safety assessments, and, if necessary, initiating new investigations according to BBIC. The assignment requires a good ability to assess children's protection needs, make legally sound decisions, and document according to applicable legislation. The work is carried out in close collaboration with colleagues and the unit manager, with a shared responsibility to ensure that children in state care receive the support they are entitled to.

As a foster care secretary, you have an important role in creating stable and secure foster placements. Your main task as a foster care secretary is to recruit and assess new foster homes, contact families, and contact persons for children and youth. Together with the child's social worker, you work to match each foster home according to the child's needs. You are responsible for following up on foster placements, supporting the foster homes in their tasks, and providing them with guidance and training to ensure they can provide the best possible care.

Our goal is to have foster homes in our own management, and we are committed to developing our work with foster homes to ensure that all children and young people in our care receive the security and support they are entitled to.

The work involves regular home visits, guidance, and counseling to ensure that placed children receive the right care and support based on their individual needs. In your contact, you continuously assess the foster homes' ability to perform their tasks, identify training needs or other support. You collaborate closely with the child's social worker, including through joint follow-ups to ensure that each individual placement functions well.

Your role also includes calculating and following up on fees and expenses in accordance with the municipality's guidelines and the individual child's needs.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone who is a social worker and has experience in public authority operations concerning children and youth, particularly regarding monitoring placements and/or investigating and guiding foster homes. You are confident in your professional role and accustomed to making independent decisions based on applicable legislation. You work in a structured manner and have a good ability to plan, organize, and prioritize in a day-to-day environment that sometimes requires quick adjustments. You have a good ability to work with complex issues and can express yourself clearly in both speech and writing. You possess personal maturity and have good collaboration skills. Great emphasis is placed on personal suitability. A driver's license is a requirement.

OTHER

With the employment comes an obligation to be placed in a war position, unless you are already placed by another actor. Read more about war placement at www.knivsta.se

Knivsta Municipality wants to take advantage of the qualities that a balanced gender distribution and ethnic and cultural diversity bring to the organization.

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