Do you want to help shape the future of social services?

We are looking for a colleague with an interest in and experience with younger children who can complement our new prevention team.

This role is part of our restructuring and resource strengthening to meet the requirements of the new Social Services Act.

We are currently working on changes to ensure that we can continue to provide good help and support to our citizens. Examples of changes include the introduction of first and second line social services to better manage different types of cases and provide more tailored service. Additionally, we are expanding staff groups to strengthen our capacity. We are also working to reduce barriers to make our services more accessible. With us, you will have the opportunity to work in a dynamic and developing environment where your commitment and competence truly make a difference. We warmly welcome your application!

The role of social worker with us

You will be involved in starting up and developing preventive work in close collaboration with the team leader, other employees from first line social services, and cross-administrative efforts in Kungsbacka. Your assignment includes collaboration and thinking holistically from a preventive perspective at both individual and group levels. The target group is children and young people aged 0-20 years, and we are looking for someone who has experience working with younger children.

You will perform interventions at both individual and group levels. The interventions take place within first line social services and are based on the needs present, which is why interventions will largely occur in collaboration with other actors such as culture and leisure, schools/preschools, the police, and health care.

Individual level interventions may involve supportive and advisory conversations and guiding families to, for example, TSI (early coordinating efforts), first line outpatient care, or authority-exercising social services. Group level interventions may involve conducting targeted efforts at a school or preschool, attending parent meetings, being present at open preschools, informing about social services in various forums, and attending special events such as schools out, theme days at different arenas.

The prevention team and the role are new to the administration, which means that the content of the job description may change over time, based on our focus on those we serve and our ambition to create a needs-driven first line social service.

Your profile

As a person, you have a humble and unpretentious approach, which means you are interested and curious. You have a good ability to work both independently and in a team, and you find it easy to collaborate. You have a very good ability to collaborate with others and to build and maintain good relationships. Since your assignment is performed largely in collaboration with others, you need to be comfortable working in the organizational space where collaboration occurs based on our families' needs.

You have an interest in contributing to the development of a more preventive and accessible social work in collaboration, in order to meet parents and young people at an early stage, before problems grow too large. You contribute to creating a positive work environment, are good at adapting your perspective, and seeing opportunities. You are a good communicator who can express yourself well in Swedish both orally and in writing, and you are skilled at conveying a message in a pedagogical manner. Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability.

We are looking for someone who has:

• a degree in social work
• a B driver's license
• good knowledge of authority exercising for children and young people, child development, and the areas of social work such as domestic violence, mental health issues, and substance abuse
• experience working with younger children.

It is advantageous if you have:

• experience of authority exercising for children and young people
• experience in support and treatment work with children and young people

Read more about us

Within the administration, we are restructuring and have created a new unit that will come into effect on September 15, the Preventive Unit for Children and Young People. The unit consists of three groups: the prevention team, the reception group for children and young people, and the outpatient group for children and young people. The unit is part of first line social services for children and young people and is led by a unit manager. This is a new working method aimed at supporting the municipality's children and families in a more coordinated and effective way at an earlier stage. The unit offers good collegial support and a welcoming climate where we collaborate and help each other.

Our offer and additional information

We offer a permanent full-time position with placement according to agreement.

With us, you will:

• be part of driving the work towards a more preventive and accessible social work based on the new Social Services Act
• have the opportunity to work in a dynamic and developing environment where your commitment and competence make a difference and where you can influence
• engage in a developing job where you, together with others, support children, young people, and their families based on their needs
• experience a varied and enjoyable job with engaged workgroups in both first and second line social services where there is mixed experience and high competence in the field
• receive regular external supervision

It takes only 20 minutes by train from Gothenburg, and the city hall is located in Kungsbacka, opposite the central station. Working hours are spent both in the city hall and in our offices at Nygatan 17 in central Kungsbacka.

The work may involve needs-driven working hours outside of office hours.

The role is under development, which means that the position will evolve as methods and working practices emerge. Therefore, you need to find it inspiring to be in a developing role.

Before an offer of employment, an acceptable extract from the police's criminal record must be presented.

Background checks may be conducted prior to employment.

Interested?

Great! We warmly welcome your application by March 1. Selection and interviews may take place on an ongoing basis.

In your application, please only attach your CV, and together with it, you will answer a number of questions that will be part of our selection assessment.

In preparation for the recruitment process, Kungsbacka Municipality has carefully considered recruitment channels and marketing. Therefore, we kindly ask for no contact from media sellers, recruitment sites, or similar.