Work in Ekerö Municipality

We have made a decision! We aim to be a leading municipality – and we have everything it takes to succeed. Short decision-making paths, collaboration across organizational boundaries, and the willingness to dare more. Our high ambitions provide you with opportunities to grow and create positive change for the citizens. As an employee in Ekerö Municipality, you will have a valuable role in our unique archipelago – and we look forward to your application.

The Child and Youth Unit with the investigation team and placement team is one of four units within IFO and works to investigate and follow up on interventions for children who are at risk due to conditions at home or due to their own behavior. The unit employs social workers, child caseworkers, foster care caseworkers, and a unit manager. The other units within IFO are: Reception and Adult Unit, Open Care Unit, and the Economic Assistance Unit.

Job Description

There are many advantages to working in the Child and Youth Unit in Ekerö Municipality - we have the opportunity to work through cases at a calm pace and have time to reflect. We have a relatively low workload and room for development. In the unit, all colleagues care for each other and provide support when needed.

We are now looking for two social workers who want to work as social caseworkers, one as a specialist investigator in the investigation team and one as a child caseworker in the placement team. As a specialist investigator, you will be responsible for investigating and making decisions according to SoL and LVU and following up on certain interventions for children and youth aged 0-20 years. As a child caseworker, you will be responsible for following up on children and youth placed outside their home as well as children with contact family interventions aged 0-20 years.

Being a specialist investigator means being responsible for cases that are complex in nature and supporting and introducing social caseworker colleagues in the investigative work at social services as an experienced colleague. As a specialist investigator, you will have the opportunity to delve into cases that require more extensive investigations and contribute to the development of the investigative work.

Being a child caseworker means having continuous contact with children placed in foster homes, support housing, and HVB. The role of the child caseworker is primarily to act in the best interest of the child or young person, being attentive and responsive to the child's/youth's needs and wishes for support.

In both roles, you are expected to have a good ability to create trusting and continuous relationships as well as good knowledge of children and child development. The positions involve collaborating with key actors around the child/youth and their family. We are looking for someone who wants to make a difference!

In Ekerö Municipality, we have, compared to other municipalities, a relatively low influx of cases which allows time for both reflection and development. With us, we have time to work through cases thoroughly, and we are constantly looking for new ways to reach our citizens and develop together with them.

We have a well-organized economy which provides greater opportunities for good solutions for clients. It also allows us to take good care of our employees; we offer, among other things, days off before holidays and half days before red days. With us, you can also exchange vacation compensation for more vacation days.

We have good opportunities for flexible working hours and the possibility of remote work - with us, you as a social caseworker have great opportunities to organize your work in a way that suits you.

Our office is centrally located in Ekerö, just 15 minutes by bus from Brommaplan or 5 minutes from Jungfrusund (Ekeröleden ferry). For those coming from Stockholm city, commuter boat 89 departs from Klara Mälarstrand via Lilla Essingen and Ekensberg.

We work with BBIC, MI, and Signs of Safety. We offer you training in the methods we use and actively work with supervision.

With us, there are good career opportunities for those who want to grow and develop in their professional role!

Qualifications

To succeed in this role, you should:

• have a degree in social work
• good knowledge of children and child development
• current and relevant experience in social services work within child and youth investigation or foster care
• good ability to express yourself well in speech and writing
• good administrative skills and a good sense of order, as well as being analytical and structured
• courage, strength, commitment, energy, respect, and empathy in meetings with children and adults.

A driving license (B) is an advantage but not a requirement.

To thrive with us, you are engaged, genuinely interested in meeting and understanding people, and curious to learn new things and develop. We hope you will contribute to making work enjoyable for all of us.

We are continuously working with selection and interviews, so please submit your application as soon as possible.

Start date: By agreement
Extent: Full-time
Employment form: Permanent

How to get to Ekerö Municipality

About Ekerö Municipality

We are a variety of different operations that together create a unique municipality – where we all help each other across unit and operational boundaries. We live our values which means a strong commitment, good communication with open dialogue, and a professional approach. As a smaller municipality in the Stockholm region, we can offer both proximity to each other and an ambitious development journey. To become a leading municipality, we need to bring in new perspectives, and we hope you want to contribute yours.

Ekerö Municipality wants to be an attractive employer and strives for a clear focus on sustainability. Provided that the organization's ability to meet its goals remains, the municipality has a positive attitude towards remote work when possible.

We offer, for example, wellness grants, salary exchange for pensions, exchange of vacation day allowances for days off, and smoke-free working hours. To ensure the quality of our recruitment process, we ask you to submit your application digitally, and not via email or post.

We have already made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing and do not wish to be contacted by media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.