Social Worker for Nässjö Municipality Schools

Increased learning – equality – meeting places. These are three important core values that permeate all work in Nässjö Municipality's schools. Nässjö is a medium-sized municipality with approximately 30,000 inhabitants located on the Småland highlands.

To realize these values, the Municipal Council has adopted a strategic and long-term development work for preschool and school in Nässjö Municipality.

Within the Child and Education Administration, we work consciously and purposefully to provide every child and student with the tools required to seek knowledge in life. The goal is for every child and student to develop according to their prerequisites and feel joy and pride in their successes.

About the Position

We are now looking for a social worker for one of our schools. The position is a permanent full-time role with daytime hours.

Responsibilities

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Actively driving the value-based work at the school and striving to ensure that human rights and democracy are followed.
• Conduct professional conversations, such as support, motivation, crisis, and conflict talks, as well as investigative, advisory, and processing talks with individual students and their families.
• Investigate and assess the social and psychosocial situation for individual students and for the school as a whole.
• Initiate and participate in reports to social services and the police.
• Document performed interventions in the school's journal system.
• Work with individual students and groups in acute need situations and for preventive purposes.
• Participate in EHT (Student Unit Team) and safety teams.
• Contribute to the competence development of other school staff within the social and psychosocial field.
• Participate in crisis groups.
• Collaborate with societal resources, such as social services, psychiatry, habilitation services, police, and youth clinics.
• Contribute to school development.
• Serve as a good external representative for the school as a social worker.
• Stay updated within the profession.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who have a degree in social work (social worker) or another equivalent behavioral science education. Experience working with children and young people, as well as experience as a school counselor, is meritorious.

You have good insight into the school's goals and governing documents, knowledge of other administrations and, for example, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP), as well as knowledge of practice and guidelines within the area.

Terms of Employment

• Salary: Monthly salary.
• Employment type: Permanent position.
• Duration: Permanent.
• Working hours: Daytime.

Please read more about what it is like to work in Nässjö Municipality at www.nassjo.se (http://www.nassjo.se).

Apply for the Job

To ensure efficient, fast, and secure handling of your application, we ask you to send your application via our recruitment tool. Apply directly via the link in the advertisement.

If you have a protected identity and wish to apply for the advertised position, you are welcome to send your application documents to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]). The email must clearly state which position you are applying for.

In connection with the recruitment process, Nässjö Municipality has taken a stance on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore expressly decline contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.