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Sundsvall Municipality has approximately 8000 employees and is significant for our society. We are Sundsvall's largest employer with several workplaces in various operations and around 300 different professions.

The municipality has a large mission to create benefits for all our residents. Regardless of the operation, we work towards the same goal: to be a good place to live, thrive, and work.

Sundsvall Municipality is in an exciting phase. Our municipality is part of the green transition in Northern Sweden, where a major establishment is underway that will lead to many new jobs and thus many new residents. We are fully preparing by, among other things, preparing land, creating new educational opportunities, marketing the municipality, and welcoming new residents from all over the world.

Do you want to contribute to a better life for children, young people, and their families in Sundsvall Municipality? We at the Department of Individual and Labor Market Administration cover areas such as Children, Youth and Family, Substance Abuse and Mental Health, Adult Education, and Work and Income. We create conditions for learning and work, improved living situations in cases of mental health issues and substance abuse, secure upbringing conditions, and reduced social exclusion. We work preventively and with early support interventions and group activities to provide children and parents with advice and support to prevent negative developments in the long term. We in Children, Youth and Family have been working intensively for some time to get closer to our citizens, work proactively, and offer advice and support conversations without assistance assessment. The goal of the operation is that children and young people in need of our interventions should have that opportunity. Part of this is our investigations that clarify the needs of children and their parents.

We need to strengthen our central teams in Bredsand and Ljustadalen with more social workers. We are now looking for you who are an experienced social worker and who, with your knowledge, want to develop together with us in our ongoing work to make a difference for those we are here for.

With us, you will have the opportunity to work according to the working time model 6+2, which means 6 hours of work per day. The other 2 hours are reserved for reflection, further education, and wellness. You are offered the opportunity for vacation exchange where vacation day supplements are converted into more vacation days.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

You will work to make a difference for children, young people, and their families in Sundsvall Municipality. The work is challenging, competency-enhancing, and provides opportunities for personal development.

As a social worker in the Central team, you are responsible for investigating reports and applications regarding children and young people who may need support or protection under the Social Services Act and the Care of Young Persons Act (LVU). You also work with the implementation and follow-up of open care interventions, certain placements, and young offenders.

As a new employee, you will receive mentorship and be gradually introduced to the various tasks, and you will have good access to management and support in your work. We take care of each other and value our work environment, and in the team, we have great support from one another. You will be offered specific training in various methods such as MI, ICDP, and participate in a regional training program regarding children and young people, which includes children's conversations, risk and protective factors, and goal setting.

Read more about the training program here: Training Program (https://skr.se/skr/integrationsocialomsorg/socialomsorg/nationellkunskapsstyrningsocialtjanst/verksamhetsutvecklingochledarskap/yrkesresan.32120.htm)

QUALIFICATIONS

For the positions, you need to have a degree in social work, a B driver's license, and we prefer that you have several years of experience in social work. Previous work within the social services' authority regarding children and young people is considered an advantage. You have a good ability to express yourself well in both speech and writing. Experience and knowledge in BBIC, MI, and ICDP are also seen as advantageous.

As a person, you are flexible and can easily adapt to changing circumstances, are structured, and can work goal-oriented. You have personal maturity, which means you are emotionally stable, have self-awareness, and are secure in yourself. You can distinguish between the personal and the professional. You have an empathetic ability and find it easy to collaborate.

Applicants with at least seven years of experience and further education in the field have the opportunity to be employed as specialist social workers.

We place great importance on personal suitability.

Those offered employment must provide a valid extract from the police criminal record according to SFS 2000:873.

Selection is ongoing. Interviews may occur before the application deadline, so you are welcome to submit your application today.

OTHER

Are you interested in reading more about Sundsvall? Click on www.sundsvall.se (http://www.sundsvall.se) or if you are interested in what it would be like to live and work in Sundsvall, you can read more at www.nykommun.se/kommun/sundsvall/ (http://www.nykommun.se/kommun/sundsvall/)

We strive for a drug-free work environment, and drug testing may occur upon new employment of staff. We apply a smoke-free working time.

In Sundsvall Municipality, we embrace diversity and welcome employees from various backgrounds. We value the benefits that gender balance and diversity bring to our operations and work to ensure that our workplaces are accessible to all.

To quality assure the recruitment process and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to apply for the position through the link in this ad.

If you are also interested in working as emergency service personnel on standby/part-time firefighter, click on the link: Emergency Service Personnel (https://www.rtjmedelpad.se/om-oss/jobba-hos-oss/raddningstjanstpersonal-i-beredskap-rib)

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