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Vivant Care Safe Children

Vivant Care is now seeking 5 Treatment Families and/or emergency homes for placement assignments. Safe Children. The assignment is offered in connection with the placement of children.

The compensation consists of fees and reimbursement for expenses. The compensation is determined by the responsible social services before each assignment and is based on the child's needs and the scope of the assignment. Compensation is provided during the time the assignment is ongoing.

Safe Children is a family and emergency home service that receives placements of children who, for various reasons, need to be placed in foster homes. The children's needs can vary in scope, from minor issues to greater needs for interventions.

Safe Children is the first foster care service in Sweden where all placed children are assigned a child representative. The primary task of the child representative is to ensure the quality of foster care, prevent misconduct, ensure the child's participation in their own care, and prevent breakdowns in placements.

The organization has specialist competence in attachment theory, narcissistic violence, dissociation, substance abuse, LSS, and criminality.

All foster homes and emergency homes within the organization are offered ongoing training, supervision, and relief. Each individual foster home is assigned a dedicated contact in the form of a foster care consultant for ongoing support.

The assignment is activated upon the placement of children from social services. If there is a need for an adult to be home full-time, there may be an opportunity for compensation for lost income. If compensation becomes relevant, it will consist of income loss upon approval from social services. In other cases, it is fully possible to continue working through your regular employment. This depends on the nature and complexity of the assignment and is done in consultation with the organization.

The organization is in great need of being able to offer foster homes for the inquiries that the organization receives on a daily basis, and upon completion of the recruitment process, we hope you are ready to take on an assignment immediately. For this reason, the recruitment is not aimed at building a candidate database or similar.

As a foster home or emergency home, you are responsible for:

• Providing the child with a safe, stable, and loving home environment

• Meeting the child's daily care needs, schooling, and contacts with care and other interventions

• Collaborating with the operations manager, social services, child representatives, guardians, and other stakeholders

• Being part of a team with other foster homes where experiences are shared.

Foster homes receive children for shorter or longer periods. You have the opportunity, in dialogue with the organization, to influence which target group, age, and case complexity you accept. There are different types of foster homes, and the categorization is based on the interventions the child needs.

For example, a foster home may involve an assignment that does not differ from a regular nuclear family, but also treatment families that entail more extensive intervention treatment.

Emergency homes receive children who initially need to be placed for a shorter period, typically from a few weeks up to half a year. It is often a requirement that you can be at home initially during the placement. If you have a job, you will be compensated for lost income for the relevant period. A driver's license and a separate room for the placed child are required.

We welcome all types of family constellations, such as single parents, couples, parents and adult children, and families with or without their own children.

Requirements:

• At least 23 years old

• The child must be offered their own room

• Extract from the criminal record, suspicion register, social register, LOB register, as well as registers from the Social Insurance Agency and the Enforcement Authority

• For emergency home assignments: driver's license and the ability to be home full-time initially

Personal qualities that are highly valued include security, emotional availability, collaboration skills, self-reflection, and commitment.

Previous experience in foster care is not a requirement – training and supervision are offered continuously.

Previous education in care or social work is also meritorious - for example: social work education, teacher education, certified therapist training, or psychology or medical education.

Courses in relevant areas - such as low-affect responses or trauma-informed care - are also meritorious.

If you have been a foster home before, that is also meritorious.

• Assignment type: Foster home or emergency home

• Scope: Varies depending on the complexity of the placement

• Compensation: According to agreement

• Number of positions: 5

If you have questions about the employment, please contact: [email protected]