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In Söderköping Municipality, we want to create joy of life. Every day. This is our vision and something we strive for. Here you are offered opportunities and challenges in an attractive, smaller municipality, strategically located with proximity to the university cities of Norrköping and Linköping. Participation and closeness to decision-making give great opportunities for professional and personal development. Together, approx. 1,100 employees create an attractive workplace where we contribute to a continuously growing Söderköping. Our core values: holistic view, innovative thinking, engagement, and clarity show how we as an organization want to be and be perceived. Welcome to create the future together with us!

We offer you

Do you want to work as a social secretary in a small municipality with good and close cooperation? Do you want to work in a team together with knowledgeable and engaged colleagues who have long and solid experience in social work? Do you also want to make a difference in the lives of children and young people? Then you will thrive with us!

The Individual and Family Care consists of two units: the Adult Unit and the Child and Family Unit. The units include authority exercise and open care. We are now looking for a social secretary for the Child and Family Unit. The position is a fixed-term employment.

The Child and Family Unit works with authority exercise and offers open interventions to children and young people aged 0–20. Here, social secretaries work with various responsibilities for reception, investigation, and follow-up, family law, foster homes, senior social secretary, and therapists within our open care. As an investigating and follow-up social secretary, you are part of a group of social secretaries responsible for investigating, assessing, making decisions, and following up on the situation and interventions for children and young people.

You are offered a mentor from the beginning of employment, method and case guidance from the senior social secretary as well as external process guidance, relevant further education and competence development, flexible working hours agreement, and wellness allowance.

Job Description

As a social secretary, you are responsible for investigating, assessing, making decisions, and following up on the situation and interventions for children and young people. You investigate and assess needs as well as risk and protective factors in accordance with BBIC (Children's Needs in Focus). You are responsible for the process in your cases based on current legislation and the organization's routines, and you contribute to utilizing the family's own resources and solutions. The work starts from the child's specific needs in close cooperation with the child's family and other networks. An important part of the work is to offer support at an early stage and to work together with other cooperation partners around the child. We work actively with co-handling, and there is good cooperation within the unit as well as between the units to find the best possibilities for those we are here for.

Qualifications

You who apply must have a degree in social work or another suitable degree according to the requirements of the National Board of Health and Welfare (a requirement to be offered the position). We would like you to have investigation experience within child and youth services.

It is meritorious if you have a few years of experience in the relevant area, as well as if you have previously worked with authority exercise. You have knowledge of current legislation and knowledge of BBIC.

As a person, you are responsible, flexible, and stable. You have good empathetic ability and can create good collaborative relationships with children/young people and their families as well as with various cooperation partners. You are structured and secure in your professional role and have very good ability to express yourself in speech and writing as documentation is an important part of the work. You have knowledge/experience of a systemic perspective as well as good ability to structure, plan, and prioritize your tasks. You are solution-focused and can contribute with innovative thinking. You should be able to work independently and be a team player.

A driver's license is a requirement, and we place great emphasis on personal qualities.

Employment

Number of positions: 1

Employment type: Fixed-term employment until September 1, 2027

Scope: Full-time

Start date: According to agreement

Apply by: June 17

A certificate of good conduct (extract from the criminal record) will be requested before employment is offered.

Söderköping Municipality strives to offer an attractive workplace that is free from discrimination and provides equal opportunities for everyone. Prior to the recruitment process, Söderköping Municipality has carefully considered recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore expressly decline contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.