Vacant job

Job Description

The position is located within the Social Services Administration, outpatient care. You will be part of the Child and Youth Treatment Group, consisting of 12 colleagues who work with children and young people aged 0–20 on behalf of the Child and Youth Authority Department. You will join a team of five therapists specializing in youth cases.

You will provide support and treatment interventions focusing on the entire family and their network. We work through individual conversations as well as structured family therapy sessions. We also offer targeted parent groups.

You will be the responsible therapist for a number of young people and their families. You will conduct and follow up on these young people's treatment individually or together with a colleague. We collaborate with the young person's private and professional networks. Family therapy in our outpatient care means being creative and daring to think new thoughts. We work in close collaboration with various units within social services. The assignments describe the needs, and then we create, together with the families, how and what we should work on together to achieve the goals.

Support and help are available from senior social secretaries, managers, and colleagues. All assistance cases are documented and followed up in the operational system Treserva. External collaboration is common – both at the individual and organizational levels.

Working hours are mainly during the day, but some work outside office hours may occur.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who are a social worker or have education corresponding to the requirements in the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare's regulations on competence to handle child and youth cases.

We are looking for you who have experience from treatment work with children, young people, and their families. It is an advantage if you are trained in FFT (Functional Family Therapy), the COPE Parent Support Program, or Signs of Safety.

Great importance is attached to personal suitability. You should have good skills in collaboration as the assignment requires cooperation with your colleagues, social secretaries, and other actors within schools and healthcare. You need to be receptive, flexible, and have good ability to structure and take responsibility for your tasks. You have a strong commitment to the target group to be able to inspire, motivate, and convey hope for change to the individuals and families you meet.

Documentation and drawing up implementation plans are part of the work, which is why it is important that you can express yourself well in speech and writing.

A valid B driving license is a requirement.

About Ljungby Municipality

In Ljungby Municipality, we shape the future together towards 35,000 inhabitants. Those of us who work here are open, forward-looking, and motivated. Through engagement and collaboration, we create a municipality where people and businesses can grow and develop. Do you want to be part of it?

Trust-based management and leadership are the foundation of our organization – and a key to our success together.

Work-life balance is important to us! Here you can combine work with family and leisure time. We apply flexible hours and remote work in operations where permitted. We offer subsidized annual passes with Länstrafiken, wellness benefits, and much more. You also have free membership in the staff club, which gives you access to free training and swimming as well as participation in other activities.

Through the initiative "A Municipality Free from Violence," we actively work to prevent and counteract violence in society for a safer future. As part of this, enhanced background checks and requirements to provide extracts from the criminal record may be conducted for several positions.

Our operations have equality officers who work actively for a good working environment and support managers in equality issues. In this way, we ensure that everyone gets to work under equal conditions and is treated equally.

Our latest employee survey shows that:

• 93 percent think the job feels meaningful.
• 93 percent experience that the manager trusts that employees perform their tasks well.
• 78 percent look forward to going to work.

The result is high regarding respectful treatment (93%) and safety at the workplaces (94%).

As part of our work to grow Ljungby Municipality, we offer In- and Relocation Services to make it easier to change living environment and move to our municipality. Email [email protected] if you want to know more about what we can help you with in connection with a move to Ljungby Municipality.

In Ljungby Municipality, we apply smoke-free working hours.

Application

You apply for the position via Offentliga Jobb. Grades and certificates should not be attached to the application but brought to any potential interview. Interviews will be conducted continuously.

Employment type: Permanent position.
Duration: Permanent.

The municipality takes responsibility for the entire recruitment process and therefore declines calls from recruitment agencies and advertising salespeople.