Field Worker for Violence Prevention in Järfälla Municipality

Imagine meeting a group of teenagers hanging out one evening, and your mission is to approach them and make contact. What would you say? How do you reach out to truly understand their thoughts and plans? And what if you could take those thoughts and ideas to create opportunities and conditions for young people to get where they want to go? What if you could also join forces with other actors, such as schools, associations, youth centers, and social services, to put the puzzle together and create more violence prevention initiatives that make a difference in young people's lives? This is possible. As a field worker in Järfälla Municipality, this is your job.

To our Field Team, consisting of nine field workers and one team leader, we are now looking for an engaged and reliable colleague. You are convinced that area-based work can make an impact, that change work can truly prevent violence and promote good growing-up conditions for young people. You also believe that together, with courage, engagement, and flexibility, we can make a difference. Are you the one we are looking for?

In Järfälla, you have the opportunity to be part of a municipality that invests heavily in violence prevention work. The position is located at the Prevention Unit, organized within the social administration's outpatient care, where collaboration opportunities are open and accessible. Field operations play a key role in this work. The Prevention Unit also includes parenting support, family counseling, early support (SSPF), school social work teams, and municipal coordination of violence prevention, honor-related violence and oppression, domestic violence, and ANDTS issues (Alcohol, Drugs, Tobacco, Doping, Gambling).

Number of positions: 1

RESPONSIBILITIES

As a field worker, you work proactively in arenas where the municipality's young people are found. You keep up with youth trends and the environments young people inhabit. You also work in broad collaboration with other actors.

Concretely, as a field worker, you will:

Work proactively to get to know the municipality's young people, gaining knowledge of their trends and arenas.
Be a reliable adult, providing support to young people who need it and referring them to other interventions if necessary.
Together with young people themselves, their families, partners, and the local association life, contribute to creating conditions for good growing-up environments.
Work with and inform about preventive work regarding ANDTS issues (Alcohol, Drugs, Tobacco, Doping, Gambling).
Play a key role in strategically raising the gaze together with other actors to find forms for violence prevention work in the field.
Work in schools and classrooms with various forms of violence prevention programs.

Work in synergy with other parts of the Prevention Unit's mandate. The work is scheduled for both day and evening hours, weekdays and weekends, based on an eight-week roster. You work together with colleagues, planning and prioritizing the implementation of the work jointly.

QUALIFICATIONS

Social work education or other education deemed equivalent by the employer.
Experience working with children and young people.
Good knowledge of social preventive work, violence and drug prevention, working to strengthen children and young people's influence and rights, youth culture, and the social services' mandate and responsibility.
Driver's license.

It is an asset if you have experience working as a field worker or other types of proactive work with children and young people, or experience within social services. It is also an asset if you have experience working with young people in socioeconomically vulnerable areas. We also appreciate knowledge of young people's digital habits online. Language skills beyond Swedish and English are also considered an asset.

To succeed in this role, you need excellent collaboration skills, the ability to make contact with young people in various environments, good communication skills, and a solution-focused mindset, as well as the ability to find ways forward based on various daily challenges. You need to feel secure in the role of a field worker and have the courage to act in the best interest of children and young people. You take great personal responsibility and contribute with engagement, knowledge, and a forward-looking attitude.

We place great importance on personal suitability.

Employment type: Permanent.
Duration: Permanent.

Järfälla has the most exciting geographical location in northern Stockholm and is growing rapidly. We offer a workplace with great variety and good development opportunities. Read more about what it is like to work with us at www.jarfalla.se/jobbaijarfalla (https://www.jarfalla.se/jobbaijarfalla).

We conduct limited background checks for final candidates in this recruitment process. Background checks are carried out only to the extent relevant for the current position. In cases where a criminal record extract is legally required, you will also need to provide such an extract. We collect verbal and written consent. For more information on how we work with background checks, see www.jarfalla.se/bakgrundskontroller (https://www.jarfalla.se/bakgrundskontroller).

Interviews and appointment of the position may occur on an ongoing basis before the application deadline has passed. Probationary employment may be applied.

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