Child Secretary in Foster Care

In Klippan municipality, we are motivated by development and aim to improve a little every day. Here, everyone has the opportunity to make a difference - both for each other and for all those in our operations.

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Every day we go to work to ensure that children and families in Klippan municipality receive support and help. Today, tomorrow, and in the future! The organization works to ensure that all children and youth live under good upbringing conditions and develop favorably, and we want to offer the best possible social services within given frameworks. We want to know what our efforts lead to and keep the child at the center of everything we do.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

In your role as a child secretary within foster care, you will primarily work on following up the care of children and youth placed in foster homes. In your daily work, you will ensure that placed children and youth have their needs and rights met. You will meet with the child/youth regularly and conduct child conversations, safety assessments, and make assessments regarding contact with parents. You will work to ensure that children placed away from their parents are involved in their own care and understand why they are placed. Furthermore, you will handle ongoing documentation in the case, make considerations and re-evaluations of care, and be involved in investigations that occur during the placement. You will have access to close supervision. The team consists of three child secretaries and two foster care secretaries. Within foster care in Klippan, there is a structured approach to ensure the care of the children and youth who are placed in foster homes.

QUALIFICATIONS

You have a degree in social work or another education that the employer assesses as equivalent and experience working with investigations and interventions within social services, preferably for children and youth. Furthermore, you have experience in authority exercise and good knowledge of the laws governing work with placed children. It is an advantage if you have knowledge of BBIC and have previously worked with children placed outside their own home. You have good knowledge of Swedish in both spoken and written form, good documentation skills, and current knowledge of social legislation as well as a B driver's license.

We place great importance on personality and see that you have personal maturity, meaning you are secure, stable, and have self-awareness. You work independently and drive your processes forward and take responsibility. You build relationships with the placed children and have good cooperation with biological parents, foster homes, and other important adults for the child.

The position is a permanent employment. Please submit your application as soon as possible, interviews will be conducted continuously during the application period.

OTHER

We are looking for someone who has the competence to contribute to our operations regardless of gender, age, ethnic background, religion or other beliefs, sexual orientation, or disability.

To ensure the quality of our recruitment process, we work with a competency-based recruitment tool.

We work with ongoing selection in our services, which means that we contact and interview candidates during the application period.

We are in the process of implementing Tandem, which is an AI-based transcription tool that facilitates documentation. In the spring of 2026, Klippan municipality will also be a test municipality for Lifecare AI, which works to streamline and simplify documentation. We have Health Inspirators who offer various activities for a good working environment in the workplace. We also have wellness benefits and flexible working hours as some of our appreciated benefits.

For everyone's comfort, we have a smoke-free working time.

If you are offered the position, you must present a valid extract from the Police's criminal record.