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We are looking for a family home secretary to the Assignment Unit. As a family home secretary in the Children and Youth department, you will have a meaningful and challenging job. We perform tasks that make a difference for our children and young people – with us, it’s for real.

A day at work

As a family home secretary in the emergency home group, you are responsible for both recruitment and supervising emergency and family homes. You work closely with social workers and drive cases forward with a child perspective in focus. The position also includes training assignees and holding introductory meetings together with other family home secretaries.
You are responsible for writing contracts and managing financial routines in cases regarding compensation. The target group is children and young people aged 0-20 who are placed in emergency homes and other assignees connected to the unit. Some evening/weekend work may occur, and the possibility of remote work exists 1 day/week. We work in an open office landscape.

The Assignment Unit actively works to develop the operations and create an organization that provides conditions for a good working environment and quality in investigations and support for assignees. We offer an interesting and challenging job with good opportunities for you to grow. With us, you will have the chance to work in a team with a good atmosphere and well-functioning collaboration.
We work with participation and quality in a respectful way both within and outside the unit and towards our assignees. The unit consists of 22 employees.

We investigate assignees based on the investigation model "A lasting relationship". Children and youth use the operational system Combine and work with the method Signs of Safety.

Who are you?

With us, you represent the Social Services' Children and Youth towards assignees, clients, citizens, and partners, therefore you possess a broad knowledge of the Social Services' authority and interventions and can make independent assessments in cases. You are flexible and can work at a fast pace.

Requirements:
- Degree in Social Work
- Experience in authority exercise
- B driver's license
- Good knowledge of Swedish in both spoken and written form

Meritorious:
- Experience in family home care and recruitment of emergency, contact, or family homes
- Experience working in Combine

Personal qualities:
- You have a strong commitment to social work
- You possess good social skills and can collaborate internally and externally
- You have a good attitude and provide excellent service to clients, colleagues, and partners

We place great importance on your personal qualities.

We offer you

- We offer you an introduction within Children and Youth
- We provide professional development, external supervision and support, as well as internal training such as BBIC
- During your first year with us, you will be offered training in the Signs Of Safety model
- We offer a generous wellness allowance of up to 3000 SEK per year
- We have annual working hours

Every day, about 6,000 people go to work in Södertälje municipality. We have many different roles and want to offer you a meaningful job where you can contribute to society while feeling joy. As an employee with us, you will have the opportunity to develop and make a real impact.

As an employee of Södertälje municipality, you will be offered secure employment conditions, a generous wellness allowance, and the opportunity to exchange vacation day supplements for extra days off. In some operations, there is also the possibility of certain flexibility regarding working hours and working methods. We have a wide range of training and skills-enhancing initiatives for you as an employee. For more detailed information about our benefits, please read more on our external website:
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Selection and interviews may take place continuously during the application period.
Södertälje municipality works with competency-based recruitment methodology to counteract discrimination and promote diversity in the workplace.
We have many positions where we conduct a background check. A background extract (criminal and suspicion register) from the Police Authority may therefore need to be presented by the candidate before a hiring decision.

Employment with us may involve placement in a security class. A security assessment with a background check according to the Security Protection Act (2018:585) may therefore be conducted before a hiring decision. For some of our tasks in the security class, Swedish citizenship is required.