Social Secretary for School Social Team in Bollebygd

Young, expanding Bollebygd is a municipality with future potential characterized by a holistic approach, sustainable development, and growth. The municipality employs approximately 650 staff members and handles some of Sweden's most important missions. Children's learning, good healthcare and care, sustainable societal development, and environmental issues are just a few examples. The municipality strives to be an attractive employer where employment and leadership are characterized by participation and opportunities for influence.

In Bollebygd, nearly 10,000 people live. Located just 30 minutes from Gothenburg, Borås, and Alingsås, Bollebygd is geographically well-positioned. The municipality offers a rich outdoor life with ski slopes, beautiful hiking trails, and a golf course in a manor house setting. Bollebygd has well-developed operations with good quality and a vibrant business life with over 1,000 entrepreneurs. Please read more at bollebygd.se (https://www.bollebygd.se).

Do you want to work in a meaningful role where you can contribute to the health, development, and security of children and young people? We are now looking for an engaged social secretary to launch our School Social Team! Together with a 100% employee from the Education Administration, you will work to ensure that more children and young people succeed in school and feel well.

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Job Responsibilities

The School Social Team's mission is to work early, preventively, and proactively to increase school attendance and strengthen students' mental and social well-being. As a team member, you work in a cross-professional manner and in close collaboration with children and young people, guardians, school staff, student health services, and other professions within social services. Collaboration with other actors is a central part of the work, based on the student's specific needs.

The assignment will be at both strategic and operational levels with a focus on sustainable solutions for the child.

The joint work of the School Social Team includes, among other things:

• Preventing and reducing school absenteeism through early and coordinated interventions at the organizational/individual level.
• Contributing a systemic perspective and a good understanding of the life situation of children and young people.
• Planning, implementing, leading, following up, concluding, and evaluating interventions.
• Providing support to children and young people and their guardians, which includes motivational work, family conversations, and coordination of interventions from social services and other relevant actors.
• Mentoring school staff and contributing to competence-enhancing measures.
• Planning and conducting training and information campaigns for guardians and staff.
• Participating in building and further developing the School Social Team's working methods, structures, and routines.

A steering group is linked to the School Social Team, which has the overall responsibility for leading the process. The steering group consists of the business manager for central student health services and the unit manager from the social administration. You will be offered external supervision.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Social Work Degree (Social Worker)
• Category B driver's license
• Experience in social change and motivational work with children and young people and/or their families

Meritorious:

• Experience working or collaborating between schools and social services

As a social secretary in this position, you have a genuine interest in children and young people and a strong belief that everyone can succeed if given good opportunities. You are skilled at adapting your perspective and seeing possibilities. You are a team player who enjoys working in a team and contributing to joint development but can also work independently. You are responsible, structured, and systematic in both daily work and documentation.

As a person, you have the ability and willingness to build relationships and are confident in conducting various types of conversations with students and guardians. You are also confident in mentoring and collaborating with school staff, guardians, and others.

Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability.

Employment Conditions

• Salary: Monthly salary.
• Employment type: Fixed-term employment.
• Duration: 6 months or longer.
• Working hours: Daytime.

We strive for a balanced gender distribution and see diversity as a strength, welcoming applicants from various backgrounds.

Background checks are conducted in accordance with current legislation. For those applying for a position covered by relevant laws, you will need to present an extract from the criminal record register and, in some cases, a suspicion register before employment.

Before any potential employment, you must present a valid passport or national ID for identity and citizenship verification. 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 requirement to have a work permit.

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We look forward to receiving your application!