Social Worker for Children and Youth

Are you a person who gains energy from being in a role that helps others and wants to create better conditions for children and young people in Leksand Municipality? Do you also want the chance to receive full support and time to carry out your tasks in a municipality where everything is close? Then you might be the one we are looking for!

Job Highlights

• A job where you are close to engaged colleagues, management, and leadership
• A diverse job where no day is the same
• Opportunity to make a difference for children and families

Did you know:

• that in Leksand Municipality we offer hybrid work, remote work up to two days a week?
• that as a social worker you have five extra days off each year, in addition to your vacation days, as well as the option for vacation exchange?
• that every employee in the municipality is offered a wellness allowance?

Your Responsibilities

Social workers for children and youth are responsible for handling child welfare cases for ages 0-18 (sometimes up to 21 years). The handling may include both receiving and assessing reports of concern, investigations, and follow-ups on interventions. Social workers are led by a senior social worker and a unit manager.

We look forward to continuing to work with the transition based on the new Social Services Act, which means becoming a more preventive, accessible, equal, and knowledge-based social service. In your role as a social worker with us, you will play an important part in the transition work and our renewed working methods.

The tasks are performed both independently and in collaboration, both internally and with external partners. In this role, there are short decision-making paths where you can always seek support from your manager, team leader, and closest colleagues.

As a social worker at IFO Children and Youth, you will work with engaged colleagues, develop, and work in Sweden's most important job.

Since one of our colleagues has moved to another unit within the organization, we are looking for a social worker for a permanent position.

Your Profile

• You are a qualified social worker.
• Previous experience in public authority work is an advantage.
• As the tasks involve ongoing documentation, good knowledge of the Social Services Act (SoL) is required, as well as the ability to handle digital work tools.
• Experience with the Lifecare system is an advantage.
• A valid driver's license (B) is required.

To succeed in this position, you need to be a secure and stable person with good self-awareness who can distinguish between the personal and the professional. You also need to be skilled at planning, organizing, and prioritizing your work effectively and meeting set deadlines. Since the position involves working with people who may be in difficult social and vulnerable situations, you are expected to show judgment in statements, actions, and decisions, as well as being accommodating in your interactions and having good collaboration skills.

About the Workplace

Within IFO Children and Youth, we meet children, young people, and their families who need assistance in various forms. We place great emphasis on internal and external collaboration to provide the best possible support and help to our citizens. Our strength lies in our concern for each other and our ability to create joy at work even in difficult situations. We are all different but complement each other well!

The social sector is the largest of four sectors in Leksand Municipality. The sector is responsible for the care of the elderly and people with disabilities, social psychiatry, health and medical care (HSR), individual and family care (IFO), outpatient care, and public authority work, consisting of about 550 permanent employees and 200 temporary staff.

We Offer You

For us, it is important that all our employees find a balance between work and home, feel secure in their employment, and experience an increased quality of life by working in the municipality. If we succeed in this, there are good conditions to also succeed in our common task, which is:

We do what we are supposed to do by taking joint responsibility for our democratic mission, using our resources wisely, and always focusing on those we are here for. We do it well and are proud of our work and the results we achieve, and we welcome engaged and courageous employees who want to develop and improve together with us. We do it together by collaborating and learning from each other. Dialogue is important to us, and we find new solutions together with those we serve, with trust, care, and respect.

We strive for a health-promoting work environment, job satisfaction, community, and personal development. Competence development is a given, and we encourage our employees to further develop through courses, training, and networking. On our website, we have gathered information about what it is like to work with us. For more information, please see www.leksand.se/jobbahososs (www.leksand.se/jobbahososs)

For you as an applicant, we can offer relocation assistance, see further www.rekryteringslots.se (www.rekryteringslots.se)

Your Application

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process in Leksand Municipality and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally via the link. The application documents consist of a CV and a cover letter. If employment becomes relevant, you will need to present an extract from the criminal record. A probationary period may apply.

Application deadline is 2026-03-20. Appointment will be made by agreement. We review CVs continuously, so it is good if you submit your application as soon as possible. Read more at www.leksand.se (www.leksand.se), and follow us on social media.

Welcome with your application!