Vacant job

We are now looking for a dedicated employee who wants to work specifically with young people aged 15–25!

This is a completely new position with us, which explains the development assignment that the position entails. You will be able to shape the content together with the unit and other collaboration partners.

In line with the new social services act, which focuses on a more preventive, accessible, equal, and equitable support, we are now looking for an employee for a completely new position who wants to help build and develop our work for young people aged 15–25. This is a unique opportunity to shape a service that meets young people where they are – in a safe, flexible, and rights-based manner.

The Relationship Violence Center in Södertälje works to provide support, protection, and advice to individuals affected by violence in close relationships and honor-related violence and oppression. We also work to provide support to individuals who perpetrate violence in close relationships.

With us, social workers, therapists, and a group leader work – a total of 12 people with different backgrounds, experiences, and competencies. Together, we form a safe and knowledgeable team that supports, challenges, and lifts each other. We share a strong drive: to create conditions for people to live a life free from violence.

The Relationship Violence Center is part of the Adult Support Unit, where budget and debt advisors, eviction preventers, and outreach workers also work.

Your tasks

We are looking for a dedicated, empathetic, and pedagogical person who wants to make a difference for young people and young adults who have been exposed to violence in close relationships or have perpetrated violence in close relationships and honor-related violence and oppression.

The focus of the assignment:
At the beginning of the position, there is a specific development assignment where you:
- Map out what support measures the municipality currently offers to the target group aged 15–25 – both assessed assistance measures and completely open measures in line with the new social services act.
- Conduct conversations with the target group to identify their needs and wishes.
- Analyze gaps in existing measures.
- Develop and propose new measures, working methods, and methods based on the voices of young people and the mapping.
- Participate in implementing the measures in the operation and the municipality's collaboration structures.

Tasks:
- Support conversations (urgent and planned) with young victims or perpetrators.
- Conduct risk assessments (e.g., FREDA, PATRIARK).
- Crisis support.
- Motivational conversations and long-term support.
- Mapping of violence exposure, threat levels, and social situation.
- Collaboration with social services, schools, police, youth clinics, and other actors.
- Participation in collaboration forums regarding violence in close relationships and HRVF.
- Outreach work and educational initiatives aimed at schools and youth activities.
- Documentation according to applicable legislation and follow-up of measures.

Requirements:
- Degree in social work or equivalent education
- Experience working with violence in close relationships or honor-related violence.
- Knowledge of the social services act and confidentiality legislation.
- Experience working with young people.

Meritorious:
- Training in risk assessments
- Competence in trauma and safety planning.
- Experience collaborating with schools, police, or the non-profit sector.
- Additional languages besides Swedish.

Personal qualities:
- Ability to create safety for young people in vulnerable situations.
- Good collaboration skills and comfortable in authority contacts.
- Independent, stable, and structured.
- Attentive and good at meeting people from different backgrounds.
- Ability to handle difficult conversations.

We place great emphasis on your personal qualities.

We offer you

An exciting and dynamic workplace

As an employee of Södertälje municipality, you are offered a secure employment, good employment conditions and work environment, professional development, and several benefits. Please read more about us on our website and for more information about our benefits: https://www.sodertalje.se/formaner (https://www.sodertalje.se/kommun-och-politik/jobba-hos-oss/formaner/)

Welcome to us!

Other

Selection and interviews may take place continuously during the application period.
Södertälje municipality works with a competence-based recruitment methodology aimed at counteracting discrimination and promoting diversity in the workplace.
We have many positions where we conduct a background check. A background extract (criminal record and suspicion register) from the Police Authority will need to be presented by the candidate before a hiring decision.

Employment with us may involve placement in a security class. A security review with a background check according to the Security Protection Act (2018:585) may therefore be conducted before a hiring decision. For some of our tasks in security class, Swedish citizenship is required.