Vacant job

At Region Gotland, you can develop and grow, both as an individual and together with others. When you work with us, you contribute to making Gotland an even better place for people in all stages of life. We make each other better.

Care for people with disabilities

Within our care services, we work to provide support and services to people with various disabilities. Our mission is to facilitate daily life and create conditions for the most independent life possible. With the individual at the center, we work based on our values: trust, care, and participation.

We are now looking for four short-term foster families on Gotland.

Are you interested in opening your home and being an extra family for a child or young person on certain weekdays, evenings, or weekends? Then this might be something for you.

As a short-term foster family, you will welcome a child or young person with a disability into your home for shorter periods. The initiative gives the child an opportunity for a change of environment, social community, and new experiences, while providing relief for the child's regular family.

Your Tasks

Being a short-term foster family involves, among other things:

• a child or young person with a disability visits your home during planned weekends or single days on weekdays
• the child or young person gets the opportunity for a change of environment, new experiences, and social community
• the visits provide valuable relief for the child's family

Assignment and Compensation

• the assignment as a short-term foster family is not an employment, but a commission
• you receive a fee as compensation for the assignment
• you also receive expense reimbursement to cover costs such as food and activities
• fees and expense reimbursements follow the guidelines of Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SKR)

After You Have Applied

• we review applications on an ongoing basis
• before an assignment can begin, we conduct an investigation of the family
• the investigation is part of the process for a potential assignment as a short-term foster family

Who Are You?

The most important thing for a short-term foster family is that you like children and young people and have the will, time, and commitment to make an important contribution to a child's life. You do not need previous experience of being a short-term foster family, but it is an asset if you have experience with children or young people with disabilities. It is also an asset if someone in the family has education in, for example, children and youth, care and welfare, or a pedagogical focus.

You are a secure and stable family with personal maturity that can offer a warm and structured environment for a child. With your empathetic ability, clarity, and holistic view, you easily meet children's needs and create an environment where the child can feel seen, understood, and welcome. You also have a good ability to collaborate and build trusting relationships with the child's family and network.

Before a potential assignment, you must be able to present two extracts from the Police Criminal Register – Working with children according to the LSS Act and Verification of Own Details. Follow the links below to apply for the extracts.

Working with children according to LSS, e-service | Police Authority (https://www.polisen.se/tjanster/e-tjanster/arbeta-med-barn-enligt-lss/)

Verify own details, e-service | Police Authority (https://www.polisen.se/tjanster/e-tjanster/kontrollera-egna-uppgifter/)

Warmly welcome with your application!

About the Social Administration

As part of Region Gotland, we work at the Social Administration with social measures such as counseling, support, and treatment. Our areas of operation are social services, home care, elderly care, and care for people with disabilities across all of Gotland. Around the clock, we meet people of all ages and with different needs; children, families, adults, and the elderly. Together, we enable good conditions for care, support, and service throughout life.

About Region Gotland

Region Gotland is not only Gotland's largest employer, we are also the only region in Sweden that has municipal, health, and medical care tasks and regional development responsibility in one and the same organization. This, together with our island location, creates conditions for good cooperation across our areas of operation.

We are over 7,000 employees. Together we work for a sustainable, inclusive, and well-being society for all who visit, live, and work on Gotland. We are driving the creation of a safe and sustainable development across the entire island.

Gotland is a fantastic place to live, with a rich cultural life, pristine nature, and a creative entrepreneurial spirit. We are over 61,000 people who have chosen to live here year-round, and we would like to become more! If you want information about Gotland as a place to live and work, read more at http://gotland.com/flytta-hit/ (http://gotland.com/flytta-hit/)

Through the Instagram account @viarregiongotland, we show the breadth of our professions and the significance of our work for society. Every week, a new employee shows their working day.

Other Information

Region Gotland works according to a competence-based recruitment method aimed at seeing each person's competence and thereby countering discrimination. We attach great importance to personal suitability in accordance with the competencies described in the advertisement. We strive for an even gender distribution and see diversity as a strength and welcome applicants with different backgrounds and genders.

The position is filled on the condition that no employee with priority rights claims it.

As the environment changes, Region Gotland is increasingly working with quality and safety in the recruitment process. This means that you as a candidate may be subject to certain checks before employment. Which checks the position you are applying for may be subject to, you will receive information about before or during the interview.

Before all employments, you as a candidate need to show ID and proof of identity.

We decline offers of advertising and recruitment assistance.