Social Worker for the Children's Unit in Huddinge Municipality

Do you value proximity, growth, and creating the best conditions for everyone living and working in Huddinge Municipality? Then we offer numerous career opportunities in a well-functioning and growing municipality with both nature and urban pulse around the corner. With us, you will feel safe, involved, and proud as we make a difference every day. In Huddinge Municipality, we work to create a sustainable society where nature, technology, and good service interact. Huddinge is a large municipality in Stockholm with approximately 6,400 employees and more than 110,000 residents.

The Social Administration is responsible for individual and family care, elderly care, and care for people with disabilities. We work preventively with support, interventions, and authority exercises for children, youth, families, adults, the elderly, and people with disabilities.

Our mission is to increase individuals' opportunities to live under the best possible living conditions and to empower individuals to live independently. We are a social service that is at the forefront of prevention work and the transition to an even more accessible and knowledge-based social service.

The Children's Unit

The Children's Unit is part of the Child and Youth Section within Individual and Family Care (IFO). We work with investigations and follow-ups of interventions according to SoL and LVU. The target group is families with children aged 0-12 years and their networks.

New employees receive good collegial support from their colleagues and managers. The unit is divided into five smaller groups with a group leader in each group to provide close support to the social workers. Typically, social workers work in pairs.

We have an introduction program that spans the first year of employment and includes individually tailored introductions as well as group training. If you are more experienced, we will collaboratively create a long-term development plan to best promote your continued development. All groups have external supervision and ongoing professional development. We are proud of the work we do and want to continue to strive for improvement. We work collectively across the unit on method and development issues.

About the Job

You will conduct investigations in the family's home environment but also have significant latitude and the opportunity to influence your investigative work based on your expertise. You will make professional assessments and design and adapt the investigation planning according to the methods that yield the best results, such as through observations and networking with both private and professional networks. You will focus on the child's needs, be flexible, and drive the case independently. You will have fewer cases, thus allowing for a more intensive approach in our complex cases. You will work motivating and supporting to increase parents' receptiveness to observations and/or conversations at home and to interventions when you have identified such a need.

About You

We are looking for someone who has:

• A degree in social work.
• Experience in authority exercise.

We consider it an advantage if you have:

• Experience in investigative work within social services, preferably focusing on children and families.
• Knowledge of BBIC, MI, and Sofs.

You have the ability to work independently and drive the investigative process forward. You can build trust and relationships in complex situations and possess good analytical skills and independence in assessments.

Why Huddinge?

To fulfill our mission, you as an employee in Huddinge Municipality are our most valuable asset. Therefore, we offer a range of benefits for a sustainable work life and to ease your everyday life: Work in Huddinge Municipality (https://www.huddinge.se/arbete-och-karriar/arbeta-i-huddinge-kommun/#Formaner)

Inquiries

If you have questions about the position, please contact:

• Ann-Charlotte Lind Neville, unit manager 08-535 376 60
• Jane Gustafsson, unit manager 08-535 376 41

We kindly decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this advertisement.

To manage all applications in the best way, we ask you to apply directly through our advertised positions. We do not accept spontaneous applications via email. Our recruitment system cannot handle anonymous applications or applicants with protected personal data. If you have protected personal data, please contact the contact person specified in the advertisement.

We will request a criminal record extract from the Police before employment. You can order it on the police's website: https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret) (select extract “children in other activities”).

For union contact person for the position, see Union contact information (http://www.huddinge.se/kontaktpersonerfack)

Welcome with your application!