Project Worker for Follow-up of Upper Secondary Students

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The Education Administration in Mölndal City is responsible for upper secondary school, adapted upper secondary school, adult education, study and career guidance, municipal university college, and the municipal activity responsibility. Our vision is to be a leading educational provider with an attractive, high-quality offering. This means developing a modern and competitive upper secondary and adult segment as well as a university college in close collaboration with local and regional working life. One of our most important tasks is also to create opportunities for young adults to establish themselves on the labor market.

We are now developing a new initiative within the project Follow-up of Upper Secondary Students for young people who struggle to establish themselves in studies and working life due to mental health issues and other life challenges. Therefore, we are looking for a project worker who wants to help build and develop this new operation.

The position is a full-time project employment, with the possibility of part-time work during a one-year period, with potential extension depending on the project's development.

1 position(s).

RESPONSIBILITIES

About the project:

The project has demonstrated the need for early, coordinated, and relationship-building approaches for young people at risk of distancing themselves from studies, work, and social participation due to mental health issues and other life challenges.

The work is inspired by the CatchUp operation in Hamburg and is based on a systemic and strength-based approach focusing on the individual's resources, relationships, and opportunities for change. Through dialogue, participation, and trusting relationships, conditions are created for young people to strengthen their mental health, motivation, and hope for the future, as well as to find pathways forward in studies, work, and community life.

The project also aims to strengthen collaboration between schools, student health services, social services, and other actors to develop more accessible and coordinated support measures for young people in need of support, with a focus on increasing graduation rates.

Tasks:

As a project worker, you will work in a supportive and relationship-building manner with young people who have difficulties in upper secondary school or are far from studies and work due to mental health issues and other life challenges.

The assignment includes identifying goals, resources, and pathways forward together with the young person, and contributing to motivation, participation, and hope for the future through dialogue and trusting relationships. You will also collaborate with schools, student health services, social services, and other actors around the young person to contribute to early, coordinated, and accessible support measures.

The work also involves spreading knowledge about the operation, contributing to the implementation of the approach in the municipality, and participating in development, documentation, and experience sharing within the project.

You will work closely with the Follow-up Team and the project manager within the Follow-up of Upper Secondary Students project.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for you who have:

• A university degree in fields such as social work, behavioral science, pedagogy, or other relevant areas.
• Education in systems theory, systemic work, or other relevant relational training.
• Experience working with young people in vulnerable or complex life situations, particularly related to mental health, school attendance, or establishment in studies and working life.
• Good ability to create trusting and long-term relationships.
• Experience of collaboration between different operations and professions.

It is meritorious if you have experience with:

• Solution-focused, network-oriented, or strength-based work.
• Development or project work.
• Work within schools, student health services, social services, or labor market initiatives.
• Implementation, collaboration, and information work.

We are looking for you who are secure, sensitive, and relationship-building. You have a curious and exploratory approach and believe in people's own resources and opportunities for change.

You enjoy working in collaboration and have the ability to create trust in meetings with young people and other actors around the individual. You are flexible, self-initiative, and enjoy developing new approaches together with others.

You also have the ability to meet young people in different life situations and contribute to creating participation, motivation, and hope for the future.

We welcome your application!

Employment type: Fixed-term employment.
Duration: 6 months or longer.

We see diversity as a strength and therefore welcome applicants with different backgrounds.

Need help applying for the position? Contact customer service at 0771-693 693.

Please note that your application is a public document according to the principle of public access.

According to the Education Act (2010:800), anyone offered this position must present an extract from the criminal record. This concerns all employees who work or are present in premises with students under 18 years of age. The processing time for an extract is approximately two weeks, and you order it yourself via the police website. We recommend ordering the extract at the same time as you submit your application so that you have everything ready if you are offered the position. If you already have an extract, it must not be older than one year. The extract "school or preschool" should be used. Order your extract from the criminal record at the police website: https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/ (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/)

Before any potential employment, we will check citizenship. If you are not a citizen of Sweden, the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, you must be able to present a valid residence/work permit or prove that you are exempt from the obligation to have a work permit.

Digital identification (e.g., BankID) is required for some tasks to perform work duties. The identification is used only to confirm your identity in the systems.

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