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Stockholm – our capital city filled with millions of dreams, expectations, and ambitions. We work for everyone who lives here today and in the future. Now we are looking for you who want to think big, new, and different with us – for the people of Stockholm.

Hägersten-Älvsjö is one of 11 district administrations in the City of Stockholm with approximately 3,000 employees. Today, we are one of the city's largest districts with about 130,000 inhabitants. In Hägersten-Älvsjö, you are close to the city, public transport, and nature. We offer a dynamic workplace with opportunities for you to develop in your role.

Welcome to us

Do you want to be an important part of our work and contribute to ensuring that placed children and young people receive the best possible support? Here, as a Child Social Worker (Barnsekreterare), you have the opportunity to contribute to creating a good and safe upbringing environment for children placed in foster homes. Does this sound like something for you? We warmly welcome your application!

The Business Area for Children, Youth, and Family in Hägersten-Älvsjö consists of the units; reception, children, children and youth, youth, foster homes, and family support. Our business area is led by a district manager and six unit managers. Together, we move forward and help each other create a social services department that is modern and characterized by high quality.

The Foster Home Unit consists of three groups led by two group leaders and one coordinator. One group consists of foster home secretaries, recruiters, and family counselors, and another group of child social workers and employees who provide administrative support/case handling support. The third group consists of contact secretaries. We also have an ongoing initiative with strengthened support for foster homes where two family counselors work at the unit. The unit's employees have many years of experience and various competencies.

Now we are looking for you with experience in authority work, who together with knowledgeable and engaged colleagues wants to work to ensure that our children get the best possible time during their foster home placement. Do you want to be part of developing yourself, our working methods, and approaches, and work for the best interest of the child? Apply for the job with us!

We offer

As support for foster home secretaries and child social workers to conduct social work of good quality, we have developed case-handler-near support through an administrator and special emergency home case handlers. Here, you have good opportunities for competence development based on the unit's competence supply plan, and you are actively involved in developing the offer of high-quality support. To get a good start in your new workplace, we place great importance on your introduction, and you will receive support from our competent mentors. In addition to regular case handling supervision with management, you will receive external supervision every fourth week in Gamla Stan.

We are located in fresh and newly renovated premises at Telefonplan. We apply winter and summer working hours as well as flexible time. There are possibilities for remote work when the work allows. You will benefit from the City of Stockholm's benefits, read more about it here.

Your role

The role of Child Social Worker includes following up on placements for children and young people aged 0-20 placed in foster homes according to the Social Services Act (SoL) or the Care of Young Persons Act (LVU). This is primarily done through home visits in the foster homes, individual conversations with the placed child, and conversations with guardians. You have contact and collaborate with networks and other important people around the placed child. The work involves travel both in the local area and to other parts of Sweden. You will have contact with the children's parents and networks, foster homes, as well as schools and other professional contacts in close collaboration with foster home secretaries.

Your competence and experience

We are looking for you who have:

• A degree in Social Work (Social Work degree)
• At least 1 year of current experience working with authority work within children and youth
• Good ability to express yourself in Swedish, both orally and in writing
• Good knowledge of legislation within SoL and LVU

It is an advantage if you have:

• Current experience of work within foster care
• Signs of Safety
• Category B driver's license

As a Child Social Worker, you need to be a professional, secure, and stable person. You have the ability to create good relationships with children and their families, as well as others you collaborate with. You have good collaboration skills, are structured, and organize your work forward. You are flexible and can quickly adapt and reprioritize after new circumstances. You are engaged and have a strong drive to do what is best for our clients and the business, take initiative, appreciate a varied pace, and want to contribute to development and new thinking.

We place great importance on personal suitability and the ability to fit into the team and to add to and complement the team's competence.

Other

We recruit without the personal cover letter in this recruitment to strengthen the focus on the competencies and experiences required for this role. In assessing your application, we will only base ourselves on your CV and a number of questions you will answer in connection with applying for the position. We would like you to answer the questions concretely and concisely, and that there is a clear link between your answers and your CV. We see diversity as enriching and welcome all applicants.

Please attach your degree certificate to your application.

Interviews take place continuously.

Before an employment contract is signed, you need to present an extract from the criminal record.

The City of Stockholm works with competence-based recruitment aimed at looking at each person's competence and thus combating discrimination.

Open to all
We focus on your competence, not your other prerequisites. We are open to adapting the role or workplace according to your needs.