Field Workers for Alvesta Municipality

Alvesta Municipality, with approximately 20,000 residents — the heart of southern Sweden — integrates local living with global opportunities. A position built on high-quality municipal services, a successful business community, and a good mix of urban and rural areas. Add to this a strong infrastructure with rail, air, and a well-developed road network, and you will understand why Alvesta Municipality is the right choice.

• Big enough for ideas to be born and developed
• Small enough for everyone to be seen and appreciated, with short decision-making paths

In the Alvesta municipal group, we have about 2,000 employees across various professional categories who work every day to make a difference for our residents. Our shared value base is, “Together we create a better everyday life for our residents and ourselves as employees. We develop through good meetings and open dialogue. We achieve this through our value base built on “Participation, Engagement, and Trust.” Our focus is to create the best possible municipal service for those we serve; residents, entrepreneurs, and visitors. Alvesta Municipality operates based on a governance model that relies on trust-based management and governance with a focus on Agenda 2030.

Do you want to join our exciting journey aimed at sustainable community development?

The Department for Work and Learning

The Department for Work and Learning is responsible for, among other things, individual and family care, labor market and employment, as well as adult education and high school. Our primary mission is to offer education and support based on individual needs and conditions. Through early, promoting, and preventive measures, we conduct targeted work in collaboration with other community actors.

The Department for Individual and Family Care

The Department for Individual and Family Care consists of four units; IFO Team 1, IFO Team 2, Housing Support Team, and Support and Treatment Unit. The department is responsible for processing and implementation within the areas of children (SoL and LVU) and adult substance abuse (SoL and LVM), social psychiatry (SoL), financial assistance, and domestic violence (SoL).

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Join us in strengthening the outreach and early preventive work in Alvesta Municipality!

Alvesta Municipality is now making an enhanced investment in early preventive work and is developing the field operations with two additional positions to reach children and youth at an earlier stage. As part of this, we are lowering the target group for fieldwork to also include middle school age. To succeed in this, we are now looking for two engaged field workers who want to help shape the future preventive work.

The Assignment

As a field worker, you will work on building relationships, being present, and reaching out in children's and youth's environments. You will be where they are in schools, recreational venues, digital environments, and at activities in the municipality. Your mission is to create safety, strengthen protective factors, and early identify needs for support.

You will actively contribute to the development of a preventive and easily accessible support system based on the intentions of the Social Services Act.

Your tasks include:

• Preventive, health-promoting, and outreach work in child and youth environments.
• Building relationships and supportive conversations with children and youth.
• Demand-driven interventions, for example in schools or with associations based on identified needs in area groups.
• Collaboration with schools, associations, and other key actors.
• Advice and support conversations for youth, guardians, and other significant individuals, for example regarding alcohol/drugs, crime, mental health, life choices.
• Identifying early concerns and working preventively together with families and networks.
• Participation in the municipality's development work for a stronger and more easily accessible support.

Evening and weekend work may occur.

QUALIFICATIONS

• We are looking for someone with an academic degree in social pedagogy, a social work degree, or another suitable higher education degree within the field.
• You are good at establishing good contacts, are trustworthy, and have the ability to identify children and youth at risk.
• Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability. We expect you to be a secure person with good personal maturity and to contribute to a good work environment. You should have the ability to collaborate with colleagues and other internal and external actors. Furthermore, you have a good ability to work independently and are flexible and resilient in your work. We are looking for a person who can contribute to equal treatment and create an inclusive environment in their workplace.
• Experience in fieldwork, IFO, school, or related areas is an advantage.
• You need to have a strong interest in developing our preventive and health-promoting work.
• A manual B driver's license is a requirement for the positions.

OTHER

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