School Social Teams are Hiring

We are deepening the collaboration between schools and social services through school social teams. School social teams are a new initiative. We have already started work in several schools and are now expanding with two more. Seize the opportunity to be part of this important work from the beginning.

Your Responsibilities

Your mission is to work together with the rest of the team to enable children and adolescents with norm-breaking behavior to receive interventions to reverse negative development and achieve a functioning school experience. Working within the school environment allows for building trust and confidence to reach parents of children and adolescents who would otherwise decline formal intervention.

You are part of a school social team and provide the therapeutic competence and knowledge about child and youth work within social services as a whole. Your individual assignments come through the student health team, of which you are a part, and you are also proactive in identifying children and adolescents at risk of continued norm-breaking behavior and criminality.

You will work with individual children, adolescents, and their parents within the framework of interventions without means testing (new SoL). In your individual-focused work, you provide interventions such as skill training for children and adolescents, and parent education/family treatment content for parents. You will also participate in the general school social work at the school to build relationships.

You will participate in the SSPF work (school, social services, police, and leisure) and will be a bridge builder between social services, schools, and other entities such as family centers. It is important that the family therapist becomes a known and trusted person for students and parents, which is why you will participate in the school's general school social activities.

Your Competence

You are a social worker or behavioral scientist with experience in psychosocial work with children and adolescents with norm-breaking behavior and their parents. Experience in therapeutic interventions is an advantage. You have good knowledge of social services' work within the child and youth sector and a clear interest and commitment to working with this target group.

You find it easy to establish a professional relationship with youth and parents. You are confident in your professional role and can clearly and distinctly contribute a family therapist's perspective to the student work for teachers, EHT staff, and management. You collaborate by highlighting your assessments and what you can contribute to current issues. Additionally, you are unpretentious and want to be involved in the school's general social work, as you understand that it provides opportunities to connect with the children and adolescents who need us.

We Offer

You are part of open care for children and adolescents and thus have the opportunity to collaborate closely with staff with various competencies in treatment. You will participate in working group meetings with other family therapists within the school, individual guidance with the team leader, and external supervision. Your introduction will be tailored based on your previous experience, and you will have the opportunity for professional development in what is needed for the role.

Here, you will be part of something bigger! With warmth and respect, we demonstrate action in both big and small matters. We live our values in our interactions with each other and those we serve. Every day, all year round, we ensure that Västerås functions. Together with your approximately 11,500 colleagues throughout the city, you will have Sweden's most important job.

Learn more about opportunities, career paths, and our offerings here: https://www.vasteras.se/jobbochkarriär (https://www.vasteras.se/jobbochkarri%C3%A4r)

Additional Information

Before you can be employed, you need to present an approved extract from the police criminal record.

During the interview, you need to prove your citizenship. You can do this with a passport or a certificate of citizenship along with an ID document. If you are not a citizen of Sweden, the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, you must show that you have a valid work permit or are exempt from the requirement to have a work permit. Employment can only occur after verification of the work permit, which is required according to the Aliens Ordinance. All offers of recruitment and advertising assistance are declined.