Foster Care Secretary to Hägersten-Älvsjö

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Hägersten-Älvsjö is one of 11 district administrations in the city of Stockholm with about 3000 employees. Today, we are one of the city's largest districts with approximately 130,000 inhabitants. In Hägersten-Älvsjö, you are close to the city, communications, and nature. We offer a dynamic workplace with opportunities for you to develop in your role.

Warm welcome to us!

Are you passionate about the rights of foster children and want to develop in guiding and supporting foster homes? Then you might be our new colleague!

Do you want to contribute to ensuring that foster children and youth receive the best possible support? With us, as a foster care secretary, you have the opportunity to contribute to creating a good and safe upbringing environment for children placed in foster care.

You play a key role by investigating, guiding, and supporting the families that take in children into their homes. Could this be something for you?

The area of operation for Children, Youth, and Family in Hägersten-Älvsjö consists of units; reception, children, youth, foster care, and family support. Our area of operation is led by an area manager and six unit managers. Together, we are moving forward and helping to create a social service that is modern and characterized by high quality.

The foster care unit consists of three groups led by two group leaders and a coordinator. One group consists of foster care secretaries, recruiters, and family therapists, as well as a group of child secretaries and employees providing administrative support/case management support. The third group consists of contact secretaries. We also have an ongoing initiative with enhanced support for foster homes where two family therapists work in the unit.

With us in the Foster Care Unit, it never gets monotonous. We have very varied tasks, and no day is the same as the other. The work includes travel to placed children, within Stockholm or out in the country. The group consists of several different roles that collaborate and support each other. With us, there are many different personalities and experiences gathered, and that dynamic provides a lot of energy. Even though we deal with difficult issues, we also have a lot of fun together.

We offer

As support for foster care secretaries and child secretaries to conduct social work of good quality, we have developed close support through an administrator and special on-call home case managers. With us, you have good opportunities for professional development based on the unit's competence supply plan, and you are actively involved in developing high-quality support. To ensure a good start at your new workplace, we place great importance on your introduction, and you will receive support from our competent mentors. In addition to regular case supervision with management, you will receive external supervision every four weeks in Gamla Stan.

We are located in fresh and newly renovated premises at Telefonplan. We apply winter and summer working hours as well as flexible hours. There are opportunities for remote work when the job allows. You will benefit from the city of Stockholm's benefits, read more about that here.

Your role

Your main tasks are to investigate, provide support and guidance, and follow up on foster homes. Around each child and youth, there is a foster care secretary and a child secretary who plan and follow up on the care for the placed child. The work involves travel both in the local area and to other parts of Sweden. We work according to BBIC with the support of Signs of Safety, applicable legislation, and based on the guidelines of the city of Stockholm.

The social committee's responsibility is to carefully follow and evaluate the care of the child/youth in the foster home. The focus for the foster care secretary is to support and guide the foster home to ensure that the child/youth receives safe and secure care.

Your skills and experience

We are looking for someone who has:

• a degree in social work
• experience in authority exercise
• experience in foster care
• good collaboration skills
• ease of expression in both speech and writing

It is meritorious if you have:

• Kälvestensmetoden
• Guidance of foster homes
• MI
• Driver's license B

As a foster care secretary, you need to have personal maturity and be a secure and stable person. You need to have a good empathetic ability that you combine with the ability to create good relationships with those you collaborate with. You have a problem-solving analytical ability and are confident in making decisions. You value differences and understand that background, culture, and group affiliation can affect yourself and others in different ways. Since the work involves meeting people in crisis and/or with a complex life situation, it is very important that you can see opportunities, convey hope, and meet people in a respectful manner.

We see diversity as enriching, and we want our unit to consist of employees that reflect the diversity of society. We believe in long-term employment and therefore place great importance on personal suitability. Selection and interviews may occur continuously.

Other

We recruit without a personal letter in this recruitment 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 need to answer when applying for the position. We ask that you respond concretely and briefly to the questions, and that there is a clear connection between your answers and your CV. We see diversity as enriching and welcome all applicants.

Attach your degree certificate to your application.

Before an employment contract is signed, you need to present an extract from the criminal record. The city of Stockholm works with competence-based recruitment aimed at ensuring each person's competence and thus counteracting discrimination.