Family Therapist to Open Care Unit Youth and Family

Do you want to help make Gävle even better with us? In Gävle municipality, we work together with commitment to offer our residents a safe and inspiring environment. We offer you a trustworthy workplace where you can develop in your work and grow as a person. Welcome with your application!

The Open Care Unit Youth and Family consists of 24 employees, family therapists, alcohol and drug therapists, specially qualified contact persons, SIG (social intervention group), as well as treatment coordinators and unit managers. In accordance with Gävle municipality's values, the unit has a good approach, a strong ability to collaborate, and values high quality in our work. Our unit is HBTQI-certified and actively works with an inclusive approach based on discrimination grounds.

• The unit's target group is youth aged 13–17 years along with their families and networks with extensive social problems where multiple areas of need often occur.
• The primary mission of the operation is to work with family behavior patterns and relationships to ensure the living conditions of young people in the long term. Great emphasis is placed on involving families, their networks, and other actors in the change process.
• As a family therapist, you will be part of a team with the entire unit that works closely together and helps to drive processes forward.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Your mission as a family therapist is to work with youth and family behavior patterns and relationships to ensure the youth's home environment and living conditions in the long term. You need to have a systemic approach and see the whole picture regarding the families we work with. Including the youth's network is a success factor in your work and is of great importance to successfully help families achieve lasting changes and to prevent and/or avoid placements.

Your tasks include:

• Having good knowledge and understanding of attachment patterns and how this affects parents, the youth, and the rest of the network in their relationships. You will meet with youth both individually and together with their parents and the rest of the network.
• You are expected to work flexibly with both conversations and practical tasks, both at the workplace and in other arenas such as schools, homes, or wherever the youth and family feel most comfortable.
• Being part of larger collaborative contexts is a common task where it sometimes includes being responsible for leading these conversations and sometimes participating more as support for the youth and family.
• Great emphasis is placed on involving the youth, families, and their networks in the change process and collaborating with others.

QUALIFICATIONS

To succeed in the role, you have:

• A degree in social work, or another academic degree such as educational orientation or other academic education that the employer deems relevant for the position (e.g., behavioral scientist, social pedagogue, psychologist).
• Experience in treatment work with youth and families and knowledge of systemic approaches, network work, and attachment.
• A strong interest and commitment to meeting youth in their context and also the ability and habit of including the youth's parents and network in the work.
• Good documentation skills, as a family therapist you are required to document your work in treatment journals and implementation plans.
• A valid driver's license and driving experience.
• Good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written, as well as a good ability to use a computer and phone in your work.

We consider it an advantage if you are multilingual and have knowledge of the operational system Treserva and the working models Signs of Safety and BBIC.

To succeed and thrive in the position, you are a person who can take initiative in social contexts. You are good at creating dialogue and trusting relationships and driving processes. You enjoy collaborating and have an unpretentious attitude towards others. You are a confident and brave person who can distinguish between issues and individuals. You communicate clearly and trustworthily and adapt your actions and language according to the situation.

Your working style is characterized by good planning and organization. You have the ability to see what needs to be prioritized, are efficient, and use our resources in the best way to achieve results. You easily adapt to different situations and have the ability to change your perspective and approach as needed. You are a person who sees opportunities in change!

You are expected to work flexibly with great availability as needed. This may mean working outside regular hours.

Selection and interviews will take place continuously during the advertising period.

For this position, a police record extract is required. This will only be requested from the final candidate in the last step of the recruitment process.

OTHER

We offer you

You are important to us! As an employee of Gävle municipality, you have:

• Generous vacation terms, and as a new employee, you also have the right to paid vacation already during your first year of employment.
• Compensation for wellness and exercise when you have been employed for more than three months.
• Several different insurances through our collective agreements, for example, health insurance and occupational injury insurance.

Read more about our benefits here: https://www.gavle.se/formaner (https://www.gavle.se/formaner)

Our value base

Quality, approach, and collaboration are the most important success factors for solving our mission in the best way. To do the right things and act wisely in our daily lives, it is important that we start from our jointly stated values.

Read more about us as an employer and what it is like to work in Gävle municipality here: https://www.gavle.se/jobbahososs (https://www.gavle.se/jobbahososs)

Here you can read more about our organization: https://www.gavle.se/organisation (https://www.gavle.se/organisation)

Gävle municipality belongs to the Finnish administrative area. Therefore, if you also speak Finnish in addition to our other competence requirements, it can be an asset.