For a Living Kiruna

One thing is certain. With us, you make a difference. We are Kiruna, we often say. We are the healthcare staff who hold grandma's hand and the teacher who helps little brother read his first words. We are the childcare worker who helps someone grow every day and the social worker who does what it takes to change lives. We are the personal assistant who provides freedom and the librarian who brings literature close. We are the home support staff who drive to the villages in snowstorms like the midnight sun to be there. We are hundreds of competencies, thousands of people, and generations of experience who together ensure, care for, inspire, teach, save lives, think innovatively, move cities, support each other, and take care of people. With pride and care. From mountains to city. Today and tomorrow for a living Kiruna. There is something beautiful in that. Do you also want to work for life, humanity, and the future in Kiruna municipality? Do you want to create value and make a real difference for what is important?

Kiruna municipality chooses to invest in preventive and early interventions for our children and students with the aim of promoting good school attendance.

School Social Team

The school social team is a new initiative within the school and social services aimed at promoting children's and students' safety, participation, and ability to succeed in their education. The target group will be preschool to grade 3.

The team consists of a representative from the school and a representative from social services. The school social team is responsible for building bridges between home, social services, and preschool/school. The goal is for preschool/school and social services to have the opportunity to work together to strengthen the conditions for children and students to achieve the goals of education, create a calm and safe environment, increase students' attendance in school, and provide support to break an unfavorable development.

The team has a cross-professional approach where social services can assist with preventive and trust-building work in preschool/school. The school social team can offer support measures to guardians and facilitate communication and collaboration between guardians and other actors around the individual child/student.

We look forward to hearing from you!

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collaborate with guardians, social services, preschool/school staff, student health, and other functions.
• Early identification of children and students in need of support, in dialogue with guardians and preschool/school.
• Contribute preschool/school expertise in child and family in preventive work.
• Provide advice, support, and short-term interventions directly to children, students, and their guardians.
• If necessary, motivate and guide further to social services' regular interventions.
• Monitor and initiate interventions for groups of guardians.
• Participate in and lead collaboration meetings with student health, social services, preschool/school, and other actors.
• Document and follow up on implemented interventions according to applicable laws and guidelines.
• Actively contribute to establishing, developing, and shaping the school social team's working methods and approaches.

QUALIFICATIONS

As a social worker in the school social team, a degree in social work or other education deemed equivalent by the employer is required.

Experience working in the social services' child and youth area is an advantage. Good knowledge of the Social Services Act (SoL), the Education Act, and confidentiality legislation is advantageous. Experience of collaboration between school, social services, and other actors is advantageous. The ability to create trusting relationships with children, youth, and parents is advantageous.

Personal qualities that are advantageous include:

• Good collaboration skills and communication competence.
• Ability to build good relationships.
• Engaged in developing preventive work for children and youth.
• Flexible and solution-focused.
• Independent and proactive.

Social workers in the school social team will be organized under the social services' open care with a shared workplace adjacent to Open Care and the Family Center. The team will receive relevant supervision.

We place great emphasis on personal suitability. A driver's license (B) is a requirement.

Interviews may be conducted continuously during the application period.

Criminal Record:

Before any employment, you must present an extract from the criminal record from an unopened envelope. You apply for it on the police's website: https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/kontrollera-dina-uppgifter-i-belastningsregistret/ (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/kontrollera-dina-uppgifter-i-belastningsregistret/)

OTHER

To work with us, you must share Kiruna municipality's common values where respect, responsibility, and collaboration are the guiding principles.

We offer a pleasant working environment and stimulating tasks, and that you as an employee achieve a good balance between work and leisure.

We have many different benefits where you as an employee can train for free at various training facilities up to 5000 SEK/year, we have cabins in the mountains that you can rent, and we offer the opportunity to salary exchange for days off.

We strive for a balanced gender distribution and see diversity as a strength; we welcome employees from different backgrounds and work to make our workplaces accessible to all. Kiruna municipality sees full-time as a right and part-time as an opportunity. It is advantageous if you have knowledge of Finnish, Sámi, and/or Meänkieli as Kiruna municipality is an administrative area for these languages.

Kiruna municipality has made a medieval for this recruitment and therefore asks for no contact with ad sellers or other sellers of recruitment services.