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Uddevalla – A Place for Life

Welcome to become part of our growing municipality and work with us to provide even better service to our residents.

We offer an attractive workplace that gives you great opportunities to develop in your professional role. Our goal is for everyone to thrive and grow throughout their entire career. We also strive to develop as an employer and actively work to make the best use of your knowledge and commitment. We appreciate and encourage participation from everyone.

Uddevalla Municipality is a beautiful seaside location in the heart of Bohuslän. We believe in an open and positive interaction between the municipality, education, business, and culture.

We hope you will enjoy working with us!

The Joint Goal/Vision for the Children and Youth Department is:

Together, we provide children and their families in Uddevalla with the right support early on, so that children and young people notice a positive difference in their daily lives.

We are therefore looking for engaged and curious colleagues for our unit for the investigation of children and young people. Welcome to join our team!

Some of Our Strengths

To create good conditions for a sustainable working life, we work according to the FAS Uddevalla model. The model means that investigations follow four clear phases of two weeks each. This means that as a social secretary, you get longer periods during which you can work on your cases without receiving new ones simultaneously. This contributes to a more predictable workday and makes it easier to provide the right and early support to children, young people, and families.

Uddevalla Municipality is at the forefront when it comes to IT, digitalization, and the use of AI-based support. Since October 1, 2025, the investigation unit has been using the app Samtal till Text (Conversations to Text), which records, transcribes, and summarizes conversations with clients.

Read more here: Fast and secure documentation – new app changes the municipality's way of working | Uddevalla Municipality (#)

About the Job

Working with us means you work for and together with children and their families. We have high ambitions with a focus on good quality and legal certainty.

We are a learning organization with well-functioning support structures to give you support in your work so you can develop while maintaining a good work environment. There is a good collegial spirit where we together take responsibility for tasks and well-being.

The unit consists of 26 social secretaries, four senior social secretaries, and two operational unit managers. The work group has a lot of experience and knowledge that we share with each other.

The new Social Services Act means for us that we should be more accessible, outward-looking, and work more preventively with a focus on close cooperation with citizens, schools, police, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (BUP), etc.

Responsibilities

With us, we investigate needs and follow up on approved measures for children and young people aged 0–20 where there is concern about how the child or young person is doing.

Your main tasks will be:

• To investigate children's needs for protection and support.
• To plan measures together with children and parents and then follow up on how they are implemented.
• To work together with partners, both internally and externally, to ensure that Uddevalla's children grow up in good conditions and develop favorably.

You are expected to be part of the joint development work in the unit, where we have a strong commitment to developing our operations in line with evidence and proven experience. The work is varied and involves constant challenges and opportunities to learn new things. You are responsible for your assignment, drive independent work, and participate in planning and development work.

Qualifications

To be considered for the position, you must:

• Be a Social Worker (Socialsekreterare), a Social Pedagogue with a university degree, or have another university education that the employer deems equivalent.
• Have a valid driver's license (Category B).

In addition, we are looking for you who:

• Show good ability to independently plan, structure, and reprioritize work when the situation requires it.
• Have good ability to express yourself well in both speech and writing.
• Work independently as well as in a team and value creating and maintaining good relationships with the children and families we meet in our work.

If you also have experience with authority exercises and in-depth knowledge about child and youth development, we see this as meritorious.

We will place great emphasis on personal suitability.

What We Offer

• An engaged and supportive team.
• Continuous supervision and competence development.
• A structured introduction with close contact with management.
• An experienced employee as a mentor during the first period.
• Social Administrator support.
• Flexible working hours and possibilities for remote work.
• Wellness hour.
• Wellness allowance.
• Trust time, which is time for recovery beyond vacation (3.5 extra days off per year).

Are you interested? Don't hesitate to send in your application! Welcome to us!

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For positions where a license/valid certificate from the National Board of Health and Welfare on a protected professional title is required, this must be submitted before employment.

Language assessment is conducted for certain professional groups before employment can become current.

Criminal record check is conducted for all employment within the Social Services Administration.

For employment within HVB (Home for Care or Boarding) operations, the HVB extract is requested.

For employment within operations directed towards children with disabilities, the extract for children with disabilities and control of own information are requested.

For other employment within the Social Services Administration, the extract "Control of Own Information" is requested.

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