Vacant job

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 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 over 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 exercise 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 an independent life. We are a social service that is at the forefront of preventive work and in the transition to an even more accessible and knowledge-based social service.

About the job

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.

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

We have an introductory program that includes individually tailored introduction. All groups have external supervision and ongoing professional development. We are proud of the work we do and want to continue to develop our operations. We work collectively across the unit on method and development issues. In our unit, you have ample opportunity to use your expertise, and you, together with your colleagues in the group, are responsible for ensuring that social work is carried out legally, professionally, and with a good approach.

We are located in Flemingsberg, one of the municipality's most expansive areas, with good transport links and proximity to both nature and important hubs such as Huddinge Hospital and Södertörn University.

Job description

We are looking for committed employees who want to perform qualified investigative work and be responsible for follow-ups of interventions. We work to increase children's safety and stability in their home environment and to encourage and strengthen families' own resources. Social workers have practical support from an administrative officer and support in the form of a writer who, in certain cases, writes our decision documents. Two of our social workers have assignments as home investigators. A coordinator for Barnahus also belongs to the unit. We work with the approach of Signs of Safety and MI, which all employees receive training in, and we have social workers who coach in these approaches. I-risk is an assessment method that we are in the process of implementing in the unit.

We are a cheerful, friendly, and helpful group that enjoys our workplace. We all have a high level of engagement with the child's best interests in focus, which you certainly share.

Your profile

We require that you have a degree in social work and preferably have experience in authority exercise, particularly within social services for children/youth. It is beneficial if you are familiar with Signs of Safety and MI.

In the unit, we work both independently and together with other actors. As a person, you need to have personal maturity and good empathetic ability. We collaborate with other actors around the child, and we often work in pairs, so you need to be both relationship-building and have a good ability to collaborate.

With us, an exciting, flexible, and varied job awaits where we together in the unit contribute to the ongoing development work to ensure quality in the operations and provide space for you to develop in your professional role. Do you want to know more about what it's like to work as a social worker in Huddinge municipality? Read more at huddinge.se/arbeta-som-socionom (https://www.huddinge.se/arbeta-som-socionom).

Why Huddinge?

To carry out our mission, you as an employee in Huddinge municipality are our most important 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).

Information The position is a temporary position from 2026-01-09 to 2026-12-31.

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.

We apply ongoing recruitment and make selections and interviews during the application period.

To handle all applications in the best way, we ask you to apply directly via 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, we ask you to 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!