Social Worker for the Youth Team at the Youth Unit

Stockholm – our capital city with millions of dreams, expectations, and ambitions. We work for everyone living here today and in the future. We are now looking for someone who wants to think big, new, and differently with us – for the people of Stockholm.

Hägersten-Älvsjö is one of 11 district administrations in Stockholm with about 3000 employees. Today, we are one of the city's largest districts with approximately 130,000 residents. In Hägersten-Älvsjö, you are close to the city, transportation, and nature. We offer a dynamic workplace with opportunities for you to develop in your role.

Welcome to us

Are you driven by the desire to make a difference in the lives of youth and families? Do you want to help provide all youth with the best conditions during their placement? We are now looking for an engaged social worker for the youth team at the youth unit.

In the youth unit, we have an investigation group/youth team and a placement team. Each group has a group leader. The group leader guides our employees in their daily work. There are nine social workers in the youth team.

In the unit, we also have SIG coordinators, school coordinators, targeted contact persons, and social workers with the police. We have contract coordinators in the unit who provide operational support for social workers when our youth are facing a placement. We also have a contract controller who ensures that we use reputable actors. Quality is important to us!

The youth unit is part of the area of operations for children, youth, and families in Hägersten-Älvsjö, along with five other units: reception, children, youth, foster homes, and family support. The area of operations is led by an area manager and six unit managers.

We offer

We actively work to create a good and sustainable work environment where we value employee development and competence. We operate based on our values, which include participation, responsibility, respect, clarity, and development, and we also offer external supervision. Each employee has an individual competence development plan that is coordinated and regularly followed up. Our mentors put together an introduction during your first year with us. It is shaped according to your experiences and needs and is followed up by the group leader and unit manager.

Read more about working as a social worker in Stockholm and our benefits.

Your role

As a social worker in the youth team, you will work with investigations and follow-ups according to SoL and LVU. The work as a social worker is varied and significant. You will conduct investigations according to SoL and LVU, as well as follow up on approved interventions. We work according to BBiC (Children's Needs in Focus) and Signs of Safety, supported by, among others, SAVRY, ADAD, and MI (Motivational Interviewing). We are working towards even more structured assessment methods such as iRisk, which will be implemented this year. The work also involves close collaboration with both internal and external partners such as Framtid Stockholm, police, schools, and BUP, among others. You will be part of a learning organization and will have the opportunity to contribute to the proactive adaptation of the working methods we are creating to meet the future social services with early, preventive, and qualitative interventions for our target groups.

We have Signs of Safety coaches in the unit who drive the work forward.

Your competence and experience

We are looking for someone who has:

• A degree in social work
• Several years of relevant experience in public authority work with children and youth
• Good knowledge of SoL (Social Services Act) and LVU (Care of Young Persons Act)
• Good skills in Swedish, both spoken and written.

It is an advantage if you have experience with:

• Training and experience working with Signs of Safety
• Training and experience with risk assessment instruments SAVRY, ADAD, and Irisk

You believe in every individual's potential for change and see the family network as a positive driving force. You are stable and comfortable with being able to set demands on caregivers while being humble about the complexity of our shared issues. You have the ability to flexibly and systematically drive the work forward both independently and in collaboration with colleagues and partners. It is important that you have a strong interest in continuing to develop and improve working methods within social work together with the team.

We place great importance on personal suitability.

Other

We recruit without a personal letter in this recruitment process. In assessing your application, we will only consider your CV and a number of questions you will need to answer when applying for the position. We ask that you respond concretely and succinctly to the questions, and that there is a clear connection between your answers and your CV.

Selection and interviews will be conducted on an ongoing basis.

In this recruitment, you will be required to complete a work test during the second interview.

The City of Stockholm works with competence-based recruitment aimed at recognizing each person's competence and thereby counteracting discrimination.