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We are looking to hire more of Sweden's best social secretaries. At Children and Youth, you will find meaningful and challenging work. We perform tasks that make a difference for our children and young people – with us, it is for real.

The reception unit is an exciting and developmental workplace where no day is like the other. The unit consists of three team leaders and 15 social secretaries. The social secretaries are divided into three teams with five social secretaries in each team. Every third week, the team has an on-call week where reports/applications are received and safety assessments are conducted in these cases. This is followed by two assessment weeks where the social secretaries have meetings and write preliminary assessments. All work is carried out with close support from the team leaders.

At Children and Youth, we use the Signs of Safety approach. As an employee, you are our most important resource; therefore, we constantly work on developing methods and tools so that together we can achieve our challenging goals and fulfill our mission. There are opportunities here to influence the development and design of working methods.

As a newly hired employee, you are offered a thorough introduction to the operations where you get an overview of the area and the tasks. As an employee, you will also participate in external group supervision. Furthermore, every year you will be covered by a strategic education plan including basic further education and advanced training based on the operations' goals and resources as well as the employees' individual needs.

Your responsibilities

We offer meaningful and stimulating work in an operation characterized by high competence, engagement, and good cooperation! We are careful that social work has its foundation in human encounters, and we constantly strive to refine how this is best carried out. We have clear and legally secure processes as well as well-established routines that support systematic work. Your main responsibilities as a social secretary at the reception unit are to handle incoming reports and applications, conduct safety assessments in cases, and provide advice and support. At the reception unit, you conduct preliminary assessments and make decisions according to the Social Services Act, LBSB, and LVU. Here you belong to a work group with high job satisfaction and camaraderie.

Who are you?

On the reception group, you represent the Social Services Children and Youth towards clients, citizens, and collaborating partners. Therefore, you possess broad knowledge of the social services' authority exercise and interventions and can make independent assessments in cases. You are flexible and can work at a high pace.

Requirements:

• Social Work Degree (Social Worker)
• Good computer skills
• Very good knowledge of Swedish in both speech and writing
• Driver's license

Merits:

• Experience with authority exercise within Children and Youth
• Training in Signs of Safety
• Training in Motivational Interviewing (MI)
• Experience working in the Combine operation system

Personal qualities:

• You can keep your cool and remain professional in stressful situations
• You have a good approach towards both clients and colleagues and collaborating partners
• You have the ability to analyze situations and make independent decisions based on current legislation and guidelines.
• You value differences and understand that different backgrounds and cultures can affect you and others in different ways
• You are responsible and work based on Södertälje Municipality's value base
• You are engaged and want to be involved in the development of the operations

We place great importance on your personal qualities.

We offer you

The Social Services in Södertälje is a large organization with good opportunities for internal career development, both by broadening competence through different types of roles and by taking on developmental assignments within your regular position. When you have worked with us for a while, you will have broad experience in meeting people with different challenges; no day is like the other! With us, there are well-developed routines and methods that will be a good support in your work.

Our managers have extensive knowledge and experience in working with children and young people. We invest in leadership development for both unit managers and team leaders, which creates good conditions for clear and secure leadership at all levels. We believe in close leadership, and our managers encourage learning and development through a high degree of trust and a coaching approach.

Every day, approximately 6,000 people go to work in Södertälje Municipality. We have many different roles here and want to offer you a meaningful job where you get the opportunity to contribute to society while feeling joy. As an employee with us, you get the opportunity to develop and make a real impact.

As an employee of Södertälje Municipality, you are offered among other things secure employment conditions, a generous wellness allowance, and the possibility to exchange holiday day supplements for extra days off. For more detailed information about our benefits, please read more on our website; more information (#)

Other

Applicants called for an interview must present their degree certificate at the time of the interview. Applicants offered employment are obliged to provide an extract from the criminal record register and show an ID document.

We have many positions where we conduct a register check. An extract from the register (criminal record and suspicion register) from the Swedish Police Authority may therefore need to be presented by the candidate before a decision on employment is made.

Södertälje Municipality works with competence-based recruitment aimed at looking at each person's competence and thereby combating discrimination.

Selection and interviews may take place continuously during the application period.

We are happy to receive calls from you who are interested in the job, but we decline calls from those who sell advertising and recruitment services.

Welcome to us!