Uddevalla – a place for a lifetime

Welcome to become a part of our growing municipality - and to work with us to provide our residents with even better service.

We offer an attractive workplace that provides you with great opportunities to develop in your professional role. Our goal is for everyone to thrive and grow - throughout their entire career. We also want to develop as an employer and actively work to make the best use of your knowledge and engagement. We appreciate and encourage co-creation from everyone.

Uddevalla municipality is a beautiful place by the sea in the heart of Bohuslän. We believe in an open and positive interaction between the municipality, education, business, and culture.

We hope you will enjoy being with us!

About the workplace

We are now looking for a child secretary and hope that you want to be a part of our wonderful team and community at the Family Home Unit! Here you will be offered a meaningful and varied job in an engaged and pleasant workgroup.

In the role of child secretary, you will work with following up on children placed in foster homes. You will closely collaborate with our foster home secretaries and work in a team around the placed child and their network. You will work and plan to ensure that the children have a favorable situation and positive development, in close cooperation with important people around the child.

The workgroup consists of seven social workers responsible for the placed children and eight foster home secretaries who recruit and guide the foster homes, as well as two senior social workers and a unit manager.

Job responsibilities

Your primary responsibilities are to follow up on foster care for the placed children in close collaboration with the foster home secretaries.

• Processing and documentation according to applicable legislation.
• Collaborate with foster home secretaries and other professional parties.
• Maintain contact with the children's guardians, foster homes, and other networks.
• Ability to build relationships with the children and other important people in the network.

The work involves a significant amount of documentation, so you need to enjoy writing and have a good ability to express yourself in writing.

As a child secretary with us, you will receive a good introduction, method and process guidance in a workgroup with extensive experience. We offer a professional and inclusive foster care that always strives to provide children with the best possible conditions for a good upbringing. In addition, you will be offered flexible working hours, wellness hours, wellness grants, and trust time of three hours/month.

Who are we looking for

We are a workgroup that has close cooperation, enjoys each other’s company, and has fun together. We support each other even during challenging periods.

We are looking for you

• Who enjoys collaborating and has initiative, which you demonstrate by building positive relationships with children/parents and colleagues.
• Who can meet children and parents in difficult situations, which requires you to be secure, calm, and stable in your professional role.
• You can plan, organize, and prioritize your tasks effectively.
• Who has good communication skills and works with the child's best interest in focus.

Qualifications

• You are a social worker or have another higher education that the employer assesses as equivalent. Great emphasis is placed on personal suitability.
• A driving license (B) is a requirement.

It is an advantage if you have worked as a social worker in the area of children and youth or other work related to authority exercise within social services. It is also an advantage if you have experience with BBIC and the operational system Lifecare.

Other

Interviews and selection will be conducted continuously, so do not hesitate to submit your application now.

For positions where a license/valid proof from the National Board of Health and Welfare for protected professional title is required, this must be submitted before employment.

Language assessment is conducted for certain professional groups before employment can become relevant.

Criminal record checks are conducted for all positions within the social administration.

For positions within HVB operations, an extract from the HVB home is requested.

For positions within services aimed at children with disabilities, extracts for children with disabilities and control of own data are requested.

For other positions within the social administration, an extract for control of own data is requested.

If the extract is not digital, it must be brought in an unopened envelope during the check.

Criminal records - request an extract www.polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret (www.polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret)