Vacant job

In Trelleborg, we work together to build a growing, successful municipality where it is good to live. Our 61 villages and 21 city districts are creative meeting places bubbling with life. Here, we have ambitions, share our stories, and come as we are. This openness allows us to welcome others in the same generous and curious spirit.

Welcome to join the journey!

The Social Services Department's mission is to work with social services and provide support so that everyone in the municipality feels safe and has equal opportunities in life. We want everyone to be able to be active and participate in society. Focusing on respect for the individual's right to determine their own life, we are responsible for three important areas: care and support, assistance for people with disabilities, and help for individuals and families. Our goal is for everyone to receive the support and care they need.

Since everything Trelleborg Municipality does is based on our core values of openness, respect, and responsibility, it is important and crucial that these values are just as natural for you as they are for us in our work.

The Workplace

The Dependency and Adult Unit is one of five units within the Individual and Family Care department. In total, Individual and Family Care consists of approximately 110 employees.

At the Dependency and Adult Unit, you will become part of a competent and dedicated team consisting of therapists, social secretaries, addiction educators, senior social secretaries, and the unit manager. We have a well-developed care chain for people with dependency issues. The work is carried out from a holistic and family perspective with the individual in focus.

The unit is responsible for municipal care regarding harmful use and addiction for persons over 18 years of age and their relatives. The unit is also responsible for the municipality's interventions for people who wish to leave a criminal lifestyle or are in need of protection related to crime, human trafficking, and exploitation. The care chain consists of investigative responsibility with authority, support, and treatment interventions.

We work with Signs of Safety and MI (Motivational Interviewing) as approaches. Training in Signs of Safety is provided internally.

Communication possibilities are good. The workplace is located about a seven-minute walk from the bus and Pågatåg (regional train) station.

Job Responsibilities

As a therapist at the Dependency and Adult Unit, you will be part of a team together with three colleagues. You will be responsible for developing, planning, and implementing internal treatment interventions for people with harmful use or addiction to alcohol, drugs, or gambling, as well as for people with a criminal lifestyle, to meet the target group's needs. You will conduct qualified treatment work, both individually and in groups. The unit currently offers a wide range of treatment interventions such as CRA (Community Reinforcement Approach), relapse prevention, MI conversations, Previct, and 12-step treatment. Relatives of people with harmful use, addiction, or a criminal lifestyle are also part of the target group, and we offer support for relatives both individually and in groups. The range of interventions is constantly developed to meet the target group's needs. Documentation of interventions in the operational systems Lifecare and Journal Digital is included.

You will primarily work in our low-intensity group activities and with individual interventions according to CRA, MI, and relapse prevention, as well as with family treatment, both individually and in groups. The work involves close collaboration with the unit's social secretaries and addiction educators. You will work both on interventions based on referrals from social secretaries and on interventions designed entirely based on the individual's own problem description.

The unit has begun development work to prepare and adapt the operations based on the comorbidity reform. You will be involved in continuing this development work.

Qualifications

We are looking for a competent and dedicated employee with a strong interest in working with people with harmful use and addiction, with or without comorbidity, and with people who wish to leave a criminal lifestyle, as well as their relatives. You must have training in CRA. You are also welcome to have training in MI, relapse prevention, and some form of crime program, as well as experience working with the target group using these methods, preferably both individually and in groups. You should find it easy to establish contact and maintain sustainable relationships and have high collaboration skills. We assume you have good knowledge of issues regarding harmful use and addiction and preferably also what it means to leave a criminal lifestyle. Experience working with relatives of the target group is also desirable.

As a therapist at the Dependency and Adult Unit, you need to have good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written, and experience with documentation. You need to be responsible with a good ability to plan, organize, and carry out the work both independently and together with others within given frameworks. Furthermore, you should find it easy to maintain structure and adapt to new situations at work. You should have a low-affective approach and good pedagogical skills. A respectful and personal approach to clients as well as colleagues and partners is important in our work. Since the work can be emotionally demanding, you need to be stable with integrity and personal maturity.

The applicant should have a suitable educational background for the work, for example, as a social worker, criminologist, social pedagogue, or treatment pedagogue with a focus on harmful use and addiction. A driver's license is required. Great importance will be attached to personal suitability.

Before an employment offer is made, you need to present a certificate of graduation, a valid ID document (passport or national ID card), and an extract from the criminal record.

Union contacts: www.trelleborg.se/facket (http://www.trelleborg.se/facket)

Please note that we have removed the personal letter from the application process and replaced it with qualification and selection questions. This is for a more inclusive recruitment process and an efficient candidate experience for you applying for a job with us. Your answers will become an important part of our selection work.

In connection with the recruitment work, Trelleborg Municipality has carefully considered recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore expressly decline contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.