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Job Responsibilities

Are you our new child secretary? The Foster Care Unit in the Social Administration Center is looking for a dedicated child secretary who wants to make a difference for children and young people.

With us, child secretaries and foster care secretaries work side by side, together with contact and support. The unit also has two Skolfam teams, which makes collaboration on school issues regarding foster children both simple and effective. Additionally, there is city-wide recruitment and training for foster homes and contact and support within the unit. We operate from our spacious and pleasant office on Prinsgatan. The unit is led by two unit managers and a total of six senior social workers.

We offer a meaningful job where you make a difference in children's lives. Here you will encounter a strong commitment to children's participation, a good working climate, and collegial support from experienced and competent colleagues. As a child secretary, you have the authority and follow-up responsibility for children and young people within the city area who are placed in foster homes according to SoL or LVU.

In your work, you ensure that the care is legally secure and that children have the same opportunities for development as other children. Through regular and active contact with the children, you ensure that their voices are heard in decisions that affect their lives. You also collaborate with the children's network, school, and other professional actors, both within and outside the organization.

A close collaboration with the foster care secretaries is a central part of the role. We highly value this collaboration and allocate time for structured cooperation.

Qualifications

We are looking for someone with a degree in social work. You need to have experience working within social services with children and young people, as well as experience in exercising authority within social services. We also see it as a requirement that you have good knowledge of BBIC.

You master the Swedish language in both speech and writing, and you enjoy writing. You have good computer skills. The position also requires that you have a B driver's license.

We consider it desirable if you have experience working with authority in child and youth matters. We also see knowledge of Signs of Safety and experience with Treserva as meritorious.

As a child secretary, you must be genuinely interested in meeting children at their level and following their development. Therefore, we wish for you to have a strong commitment to children in social care, with a clear child perspective.

You are confident in your professional role and have a good ability to work both independently and collaboratively for the child's best interest. You should also be structured, able to work at a fast pace when needed, and adaptable to changing circumstances that arise in our work.

Everyone has a responsibility for the entire organization's mission, and it is therefore of great importance to share knowledge and experiences.

Warm welcome with your application!

Other

Selection and interviews will take place continuously during the advertising period.

The City of Gothenburg is one of Sweden's largest employers. Our mission is to create a good everyday life for the residents, visitors, and businesses of Gothenburg. As an employee in the city, you have a secure employment with many career paths where you have the opportunity for interesting and meaningful tasks.

The City of Gothenburg actively works to promote equal rights and opportunities and to combat discrimination.

A valid extract from the criminal record must be presented to the employer before an employment offer is made.

Since we have already made decisions regarding the recruitment channels we wish to use for this recruitment, we kindly but firmly ask not to be contacted for further offers of competence mediation, advertising, and recruitment assistance.

About Us

We in the Social Administration Center work every day to ensure that residents in central Gothenburg have a better everyday life. Our missions within the social area are many and span from exercising authority to promoting and preventive measures. We work locally but also have operations that target the entire city to meet our residents' needs. We want to create an equitable and effective social service with a focus on early interventions for a more equal city.

If you are looking for goals and meaning in your journey and want to work in central Gothenburg - work with us!