Are you our new foster care secretary?

We are looking forward to welcoming a new colleague to our wonderful team at the Child and Youth Unit in Sala.

About us and Why choose us?

As a foster care secretary with us, you will have the opportunity to work in a stable and competent organization where we value short decision-making paths, cross-professional collaboration, and trust-based leadership. In your daily work, you will collaborate with experienced colleagues with high competence and a focus on the mission.

We work simply, efficiently, and in a way that is friendly to our contractors, ensuring that our contractors as foster homes receive the advice, support, guidance, and training they need and request.

The foster care team is characterized by a lot of joy, care, engagement, excellent collaboration, and experience. Together with a stable and competent team, you will have the opportunity to develop in your role and mission as a foster care secretary.

Reception secretaries, investigators, foster care secretaries, child follow-up workers, social workers who follow up on outpatient care efforts, placement coordinators, and administrators sit together in adjacent corridors. The Child and Youth Unit's outpatient care is just a stone's throw away. The outpatient care is well-developed as it has been and is a prioritized area for our politicians who see the benefits of meeting individuals' needs for home-based solutions as much as possible.

For those of you who are newly employed, we offer an introduction to your new mission. There is close leadership from the team leader and unit manager. It is the team leader who leads and distributes the daily work and is always close at hand for support and guidance. The unit manager is also close to the operations with an open door for questions, conversations, and support.

Sala is conveniently located with good commuting distances.

Welcome with your application!

Job Responsibilities

• Recruit, investigate, educate, and guide foster homes and other contractors for interventions according to SoL and LSS.
• Manage contracts, compensations, and ongoing support for contractors.
• Participate in follow-ups of granted interventions and assess families' suitability and abilities.
• Contribute to matching between children/youth and foster homes based on the child's needs and the family's resources.
• Work legally secure based on legislation, regulations, guidelines, and our internal routines.
• Participate in business development and collaboration with colleagues and managers to contribute to a well-functioning and qualitative operation.

Qualifications

• Degree in social work or other equivalent education deemed appropriate by the employer.
• Driving license B.

Desirable Competence

• Experience of authority exercise within child and youth care.
• Good knowledge of functional variations and relevant legislation.
• Good knowledge of child development and commitment to vulnerable children, as well as a willingness to contribute with innovative thinking and method development.
• Training in revised BBIC and Signs of Safety.

We place great emphasis on your personal suitability. You have a good ability to work independently and collaboratively with others, good initiative, and you can plan and organize your work. You have a good ability for reflection and analysis, and you can motivate and make decisions. You contribute with participation, responsibility for your own work, and personal commitment. We place great importance on you, like us, striving for a pleasant atmosphere among colleagues and having a good work ability both internally and externally. Since communication and writing are a large part of the work, it is a requirement that you have a good ability to express yourself in speech and writing in Swedish, and that you are meticulous regarding documentation and processing.

Employment Conditions

Position: 1 permanent full-time position as a foster care secretary
Working hours: daytime, some evening work may occur
Start date: by agreement
Salary setting: individual salary setting; probationary employment may apply
Requirement: Driving license B

Possibility of remote work if the operation allows.

We offer a flexible working hours agreement, wellness allowance of 2000 SEK/year, or wellness allowance exchange for health examination.

We will request an extract from the criminal record upon possible employment.

So, are you ready to jump on the train to an exciting career in Sala? Apply today and become part of our fantastic team! The Social Services in Sala - where your work makes a difference every day!

Application

Send your application no later than 2026-02-20 via www.sala.se/ledigajobb.

Selection and interviews will be ongoing during the employment period, and employment may occur before the application period ends, so please submit your application today! We do not accept applications via email.

Inquiries

If you would like to know more about the position, you are welcome to contact:
Agneta Bergman 0224-74 96 19, [email protected]
Minna Männikkö, Team Leader for foster homes, 0224‑74 96 21, [email protected]

Union Contact Person:

Vision, Thomas Roberg, 0224‑74 96 62, [email protected]

About the Employer

In Sala Municipality, we work for active employee participation and trust-based management and governance. This means that employees together with the manager take responsibility for the results achieved, for the work environment, and for the workplace as a whole. The goal of active employee participation is to promote quality and the long-term development of operations. It is based on having the right competence and continuous work with competence supply and development. Leadership should be characterized by trust-based management and governance based on trust, participation, and interaction.

Trust-based management and governance interact with our working method of being simple, efficient, and citizen-friendly, which increases the quality of Sala Municipality and strengthens our results. In Sala Municipality, we are all employees, and some of us also have a leadership responsibility through our role as managers. With trust-based management and governance and active employee participation, a natural interaction develops.

Read more about Sala at www.sala.se.

Welcome with your application!

Sala Municipality is looking for you who have the competence to contribute to our operations regardless of gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, ethnic background, religion or other beliefs, disability, and age. We kindly but firmly decline offers of advertising and recruitment assistance.