Vacant job

Job Responsibilities

We are looking for a new family therapist for the High-Intensity Team (HIT).

HIT is organized under Children and Youth, Family Resource/Child Resource, Social Services Administration Center, located at Storgatan 53. We are a workgroup that is now expanding with 1 position, increasing from 8 to 9 family therapists and one method supervisor working with child and family support interventions that are aid-decided according to the Social Services Act. The target group for our work is children and adolescents aged 0-20 years, their families, and their networks.

As a family therapist, you will work on behalf of the investigating social worker who decides on the intervention. We offer an intensive intervention, largely at home, to prevent placement outside the home but also to facilitate returning the young person home to their family or to a foster home. We tailor how the work is organized together with the family and the investigating social worker in consultation with the method supervisor and the lead social worker.

The work is then carried out in broad collaboration with other actors, and we work in the child's and young person's close and home environment. You will not have many cases as you work intensively for a limited time with each assignment. You need to be able to meet each child, adolescent, and family where they are, which means that the assignment requires a certain flexibility in working hours and methods.

The work is based on a systemic and attachment theoretical perspective and is network-oriented. It is important to be able to create and tailor interventions based on the needs of the family to promote positive changes and enable the child and young person to remain in their home environment or to actually return home from a placement outside the home.

The work requires broad interventions, ranging from convening larger collaboration meetings, collaborating with schools, child and adolescent psychiatric services, and other community services, as well as performing treatment interventions with families and children/adolescents. We document the work in the IT support system Treserva. We have regular process supervision with external supervisors and internal method supervision.

If you find this exciting and developing - we hope you will send your application to us at Family Resource/Child Resource!

Qualifications

We are looking for someone with a degree in social work or a 3-year social pedagogical education. You need experience in qualified family therapy work, and we prefer that you also have experience with children and youth under the Social Services Act and the Care of Young Persons Act in terms of authority exercise.

It is an advantage if you have further training in family therapy work, meeting leader training, training in Signs of Safety, and experience in network-oriented work. It is also advantageous if you have previously worked with similar assignments. We expect you to have a grounded child perspective. Since issues such as violence, mental health problems, crime, and harmful use/dependency are common elements in our assignments, we would like you to have knowledge and experience in these areas.

You take responsibility for your tasks with the best interests of the organization/users in focus. You take your tasks seriously, are committed to completing what you have started, and ensure that the work is done correctly. You show respect and consideration for those you meet in your professional role and have an open and positive attitude, as you have the user's/customer's needs as the starting point for your actions. You have the ability to work together with others and contribute to the whole. You set clear goals and follow up on your interventions to measure the effect of your work.

We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

Other

The City of Gothenburg is one of Sweden's largest employers. Our mission is to create a good everyday life for the residents, visitors, and businesses of Gothenburg. As an employee of the city, you have a secure employment with many career paths where you have the opportunity for interesting and meaningful work tasks.

A valid extract from the criminal record must be presented to the employer before an employment offer.

The City of Gothenburg actively works to promote equal rights and opportunities and to counteract discrimination.

As we have already made decisions regarding the recruitment channels we wish to use for this recruitment, we kindly but firmly ask not to be contacted for further offers of competence mediation, advertising, or recruitment assistance.

Maria Bolander will take over as the recruiting manager from January 26.

About Us

We in the Social Services Administration Center work every day to ensure that the residents of central Gothenburg have a better everyday life. Our assignments in the social field are many and range from authority exercise to promoting and preventive interventions. We work locally but also have services that target the entire city to meet the needs of our residents. We want to create an equitable and effective social service with a focus on early interventions for a more equal city.

If you are looking for goals and meaning in your journey and want to work in central Gothenburg - work with us!