Vacant job

Lerum Municipality, with its central town Lerum, has approximately 3,200 employees and is located about 20 minutes travel time from Gothenburg. Lerum is a progressive municipality that aims for more. We look forward while respecting our history. Here there is room to develop and grow. A place for a sustainable future. Together we work to provide good service and create welfare for the municipality's more than 43,000 residents. A vibrant municipality with room for all hours of the day, for all events in life.

As our colleague is retiring, we are now looking for a family therapist for the Family Support Unit in Lerum. The Family Support Unit is the municipality's open care for families, children, and young people, and currently, 13 dedicated colleagues work here with extensive experience in social work and family therapy.

We are looking for someone who wants to be part of our group and contribute with their experience and competence. We believe that professional development is important for you to grow in your role and meet the various needs of our families. We have regular external supervision as well as close and regular methodological support from method supervisors. We have some flexibility in our working hours as Lerum Municipality applies annual working hours. We have implemented Signs of Safety with all units within the children and youth area.

In Lerum, we have close access to decision-makers and partners. It is easy to travel to Lerum, and the transportation options are good.

Welcome to us!

JOB DESCRIPTION

As a family therapist, we work on behalf of social workers, with families and children/youth aged 0-18 years. The family therapist is responsible for collaboratively designing and following up on interventions in relation to the goals. The new Social Services Act opens up the possibility for the unit to also work with interventions that are not assessed for assistance.

We work from a systemic perspective, are solution-oriented, and strive to work evidence-based. The assignments vary in intensity and areas of need, such as violence, family conflicts, norm-breaking behavior, criminality, school absenteeism, and neuropsychiatric disorders.

We actively and flexibly engage in change work together with parents and their children, as well as with other important people for the family and professional actors. This involves various forms of support such as family conversations, parental support, and individual conversations with children and youth. An important part of the work is to activate the family's network to create a safe and sustainable family situation, which may involve network meetings.

In the role of family therapist, you are expected to work both in teams and individually depending on the nature of the assignment. The work takes place in our beautiful premises, in home environments, or at other suitable locations. You are also expected to be able to work evenings to some extent, and you are expected to participate with your colleagues in planning and distributing tasks so that the unit can utilize resources and experiences as optimally as possible.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone who is a social worker, social educator (3-year education), or has another higher education that the employer finds equivalent. You should have experience in psychosocial work with families, children, and youth. Further education in systemic work, FFT, Repulse, CBT, Trappan, Safer Children, FCU, COS, and Marte Meo or other methodological knowledge in the field is meritorious. You have an easy time motivating people to change and work from a salutogenic approach.

We place great importance on being responsible, flexible, and persistent, as well as having a good ability to establish cooperation with families, parents, children, youth, and internal/external partners. You have experience in documentation and a good ability to express yourself in speech and writing. We use the operational system Treserva. Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability.

A driver's license is required. Work takes place during the day and some evenings.

We strive for an even gender distribution and see diversity as a strength, therefore we welcome applicants from different backgrounds.

Experience is required.

Apply by: 25-02-04. Interviews may take place continuously during the application period. Start date by agreement.

OTHER

The development in Lerum Municipality should be sustainable, and our governance is based on the global goals of Agenda 2030.

We believe that our differences enrich and positively develop the individual, the organization, and society. As an employer, Lerum Municipality actively works for equality and diversity and against all forms of discrimination and degrading treatment.

We want to promote a good work environment where it is possible to combine work, parenthood, and leisure. We offer benefits such as wellness and employee care programs.

As an employee of Lerum Municipality, there may be a requirement to use personal Bank-ID in the service for legitimization in, for example, system login or other verification.

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process, we ask you to submit your application via this link, and not via email or paper format.

Warm welcome with your application!

For this recruitment, we have already decided on the recruitment channels we wish to use. We kindly but firmly request not to be contacted for further offers of competence mediation, advertising, and recruitment assistance.