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As an employee of Götene municipality, you become part of a whole where engagement and collaboration across boundaries are a given. Here, we value courage and innovation in everything we do, and we strive for workplaces that stimulate creativity, initiative, and responsibility. With us, you have the opportunity to contribute to meaningful and socially beneficial efforts that make a difference in people's everyday lives.

We have a clear vision – we will become Sweden's best rural municipality. Götene municipality is the place where, whether young or old or in the middle of life, you feel safe and have the conditions to develop. Here, children are at the center. We harness the drive and creativity of every young individual by offering top-class education, a rich cultural life, and meaningful leisure activities that allow children and young people to develop into their best selves. The calm, community, and simplicity with us, together with the pulse of the cities around us, provide the conditions for a rich life, regardless of where you are in life. Just around the corner awaits Vänern and Kinnekulle with an outdoor life that many can only dream of.

Do you want to help shape Sweden's best rural municipality? Read more about Götene municipality at http://www.gotene.se (http://www.gotene.se), and what life in Skaraborg has to offer at https://www.livetiskaraborg.se/kommuner/gotene (https://www.livetiskaraborg.se/kommuner/gotene)

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Who are we?

We work with children and young people aged 0-21 years, investigating and following up on interventions.

We work solution-focused from a systems theory perspective. The child and family group currently consists of seven social workers, three foster care social workers, and one senior social worker.

Job Responsibilities

Your main task will be child and youth investigations with follow-up responsibility regarding interventions.

What can you expect

We offer good collaboration, established routines, external supervision, and genuinely present leadership. Here you can settle in and focus your work on a safe support system around you. We are a committed and motivated team where we are different. We are also a smaller municipality with good relationships with other partners, and last but not least, we are a caring workgroup.

With us, you will have good and friendly colleagues with the attitude that we always help each other, and you will have the opportunity to influence your own work environment. Since development is an important part of our work, you will have opportunities for influence and be involved in developing the operations. In addition to a good working atmosphere, we also offer a good working environment.

Who are we looking for

We are looking for a new employee with genuine interests in social work with children, young people, and their caregivers.

We are looking for someone who is a trained social worker. You should have a good commitment to children in distress and a desire to contribute with innovative thinking and method development. We would like you to have experience in public authority work. We expect you to be an empathetic, secure person with good personal maturity, good collaboration skills, and that you contribute to a good working atmosphere. You have a good ability for reflection and analysis and can express yourself well in both speech and writing. Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability.

If you have worked with public authority work before, you know that it is an incredibly rewarding job, and to those of you who have not tried, we encourage you to dare to apply. It is educational and provides a great understanding of all social work in both the public and private sectors.

Conditions

The position is a permanent full-time employment with a start date according to agreement. A driver's license is a requirement. Interviews may take place continuously during the recruitment period, so apply today.

Welcome with your application!

We only accept applications electronically via our website. Staffing and recruitment companies, as well as job advertisement sellers, are kindly declined. Götene municipality applies a smoke-free working time.

Götene municipality strives for gender equality and diversity in our operations and therefore actively works for an even gender distribution and ethnic and cultural diversity.