Family Therapist for the School Social Team in Enskede-Årsta-Vantör

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

Welcome to us

Enskede-Årsta-Vantör is a large district sometimes referred to as “Little Stockholm” due to its spread of areas with varying characteristics.

This contributes to a challenging and exciting job with great opportunities to influence the social services' work with children, youth, and parents.

The preventive and early support for families is highly prioritized. We are undergoing a transformation towards a more accessible, preventive, and experience- and knowledge-based social service. It is a long-term development effort where we build new while operating in everyday life, “We build the tracks while we run.”
Our work is based on a prevention science and system-oriented foundation focusing on risk and protective factors.

We are now looking for an engaged and relationship-building family therapist

to our school social team (SST) within the first-line area. The area consists of four units and is part of the department for preventive and promotional work. The team is currently organized directly under the area manager and is led together with unit managers.

A greeting from your future colleagues

“We in the school social team are engaging family therapists who work independently but always support each other. We are now looking for new colleagues who want to contribute with competence, curiosity, and a desire to make a difference for students every day. We look forward to meeting you!”

We offer

With us, you will have a developing and meaningful assignment where you work closely with colleagues in both social services and schools. You will become part of an engaged team with high competence and a strong culture of collaboration.

The working hours are during the day, Monday to Friday. Some evening work may occur within the framework of flexible hours, for example, in connection with parenting support groups or to meet families' needs outside office hours. We strive to avoid meeting students during school hours.

The City of Stockholm is one of Sweden's largest employers and offers a good and secure workplace with favorable employment conditions. As an employee, you have access to wellness grants and the opportunity to purchase annual passes to the city's own swimming and gym facilities at favorable prices. If you want to read more about Stockholm city's benefits, you can do so here.

Your role

The target group is children with repeated or long-term absence from school. The interventions occur without prior assistance assessment and are designed together with children, guardians, and schools. The goal is to strengthen the child's school attendance and increase goal fulfillment.

As a family therapist, you are part of the school social team formed around each individual child. The work is based on a system-theoretical foundation and encompasses the entire network around the child, where family, school, and other actors collaborate.

Your responsibilities include:

• Conducting motivating and supportive work with children and their guardians
• Collaborating closely with schools and their student health teams
• Implementing interventions in the child's natural environment such as at home and school
• Contributing to method development and collegial learning within the team
• Leading parenting support groups during the day and evening

We prioritize and further develop the coordinated early support. You will become part of an established and well-functioning collaboration with the district's primary schools, aimed at strengthening school attendance and creating better conditions for children's learning and development. You will be an important addition that enables us to further strengthen our work with school attendance.

As part of the ongoing transformation, focusing on a more coordinated and knowledge-based early support, the following development areas are particularly prioritized:

• Making the child visible and strengthening the child's participation in the interventions provided
• Systematically following up on whether the interventions have had the intended effect on the child's life situation, with a particular focus on school attendance and knowledge development
• Ensuring that support and interventions are directed where the needs are greatest

Your competence and experience

We are looking for someone who has:

• A degree in social work or a university education deemed equivalent by the employer
• Experience in motivational work and family-supporting interventions
• Good knowledge of prevention science and a systemic approach
• Good ability to express yourself well in Swedish, both orally and in writing

It is also meritorious if you have:

• Competencies in parenting support programs
• Experience in authority exercise and/or treatment regarding children and youth

We see that you are confident in your professional role, have a professional demeanor, and the ability to create trusting relationships. You enjoy working in an environment characterized by development, participation, and engagement.

You work independently, structured, and with a good ability to drive your work forward within the framework of the municipal assignment. At the same time, you are flexible and easily adapt when circumstances change.

We place great importance on personal suitability.

Other

We recruit without a personal letter to strengthen the focus on the competencies and experiences required for this role. In assessing your application, we will only consider your CV and a number of questions you will be asked to answer when applying for the position. We ask that you respond concretely and succinctly to the questions, and that there is a clear connection between your answers and your CV.

The position will be filled subject to the necessary decisions being made.
The City of Stockholm works with competence-based recruitment aimed at ensuring each person's competence and thus combating discrimination.

Enskede Årsta Vantör is one of 11 district administrations in the City of Stockholm. As part of the City of Stockholm, the administration offers preschool and leisure, care for the elderly and disabled, social services, preventive and safety-promoting work, urban development, and park maintenance to our 105,000 Stockholmers living in the district. We face exciting challenges as the Enskede Årsta Vantör district grows and entirely new neighborhoods are built. Approximately 18,000 new apartments are planned by 2030.