Social Worker for Placement Team in Hägersten-Älvsjö

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 you who want to think big, new, and differently with us – for the people of Stockholm.

Hägersten-Älvsjö is one of 11 district administrations in the city of Stockholm with about 3000 employees. Today, we are one of the city's largest districts with approximately 130,000 inhabitants. 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

As a social worker in the placement team, you will be part of an engaged and experienced workgroup driven by making a difference in the lives of youth and their families.

Here, our employees describe what it is like to work in the placement team:

”The best part of working in the placement team is that I never stand alone in my cases. We are experienced colleagues who make assessments together, share knowledge, and truly support each other. This creates both security and quality.”

”Here, I have the opportunity to follow youth over time and really build relationships. Seeing their development and knowing that we are making a real difference.”

”The combination of strong team spirit, present leadership, and good support functions allows me to focus on what matters most – the youth.”

We are now looking for two social workers who want to be part of a team where collaboration, development, and the best interests of youth are always in focus.

The placement team is part of the youth unit and consists of eight social workers who work closely together with the support of a present team leader.

We Offer

Our operations are characterized by openness and creativity where initiative, new ideas, and continuous development are encouraged.

Each employee has an individual competence development plan that is coordinated and followed up regularly. 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 team leader and unit manager.

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

Your Role

As a social worker in the placement team, you are responsible for the follow-up of placed youth according to SoL and LVU. You work structured according to BBIC in the follow-up of youth placed in SiS institutions, HVB homes, treatment families, emergency families, support housing, and training apartments. We also have co-placements according to LSS.

You follow the youth over time, assess needs, plan interventions, and ensure that the placement maintains high quality and is appropriately adapted for the youth. You play an important role in building and maintaining relationships and have close collaboration with youth, their families, caregivers, schools, and other professionals.

In our placement cases, we always work together. Assessments are made collectively, and you have close support from colleagues, team leaders, and support functions. The unit has a contract coordinator who is an operational support for you as a social worker when our youth are facing a placement. There is also a contract controller who ensures that we use serious actors.

We continuously develop routines and methods. Together with the open care, we work to shorten placement times and enable home relocation to families. We also invest in SAVRY assessments in close collaboration with the investigative youth group to then implement the method in the placement team. We work based on Signs of Safety and have coaches in the unit who drive method development forward.

The unit also has SIG coordinators, school coordinators, targeted contact persons, and social workers with the police. Quality is important to us!

Your Competence and Experience

We are looking for you who have:

• Degree in Social Work
• Several years of current experience in authority work with children and youth
• Good knowledge of SoL (Social Services Act) or LVU (Law with special provisions on care of young people)
• Good knowledge of Swedish in both spoken and written form.

It is meritorious if you have experience with:

• Driver's license B as there may be travel with the administration's service vehicle.

You believe in each individual's ability to 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 common issues. You have the ability to flexibly and structurally drive the work forward both independently and in collaboration with colleagues and partners. It is important that you have a great interest in continuing to develop and improve work methods within social work together with the team. We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

Other

We recruit without a personal letter in this recruitment. In assessing your application, we will only base it on your CV and a number of questions you will be asked to answer when applying for the position. We wish for you to 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 continuously.

In this recruitment, you will have to complete a work sample during the second interview.

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