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Do you value closeness, growth, and creating the best conditions for everyone who lives and works in Huddinge Municipality? Then we offer numerous career opportunities in a well-functioning and growing municipality with both nature and city vibes just around the corner. Here, you feel safe, involved, and proud as we make a difference with strength every day. At Huddinge Municipality, we work to create a sustainable society where nature, technology, and good service interact. Huddinge is a large Stockholm municipality with approximately 6,400 employees and more than 110,000 residents.

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Huddinge Municipality strives to be a safe, legally secure, and professional operation. As part of our recruitment process, we may therefore conduct background checks and request register extracts at the final stage of certain recruitments. If you become a candidate for this, you will receive clear information and the opportunity to give your consent before the check is carried out.

The Social Services Department is responsible for individual and family care, elderly care, and care for people with disabilities. We work preventively with support, interventions, and authority exercises for children, young people, families, adults, the elderly, and people with disabilities.

Our mission is to increase individuals' opportunities to live under the best possible living conditions and to strengthen individuals to live an independent life. We are a social service that is at the forefront of prevention work and the transition to an even more accessible and knowledge-based social service.

1 position

About the workplace

Youth Outpatient Care Unit 13–20 years is part of the Child and Youth Section, which has a cohesive organization and overall responsibility for preventive work, investigations, as well as needs-assessed and non-needs-assessed interventions for children, young people, and families. In total, 240 employees work in the section. Within the section, the transition work is ongoing in line with the new Social Services Act.

Youth Outpatient Care 13–20 years consists of four different groups: Mini Maria, Myren Supported Housing, Youth Clinic, and Young People at Risk. It is to the group Young People at Risk (UIR) that we are now seeking a team leader.

UIR consists of 8 employees who work with SIG/SSPF, Youth Therapist, Youth Service, Rätt Kurva, Support Center for Young Crime Victims, and mediation. In UIR, work is carried out with both non-needs-assessed interventions and needs-assessed interventions. UIR has the task of providing support and treatment to individual young people and their families.

This is a temporary position lasting from September 1, 2026, to August 15, 2027.

Job Description

Young People at Risk is now seeking a competent, engaged, and driven team leader who wants to contribute to UIR's work to offer high-quality interventions to children, young people, and their families.

In your role as team leader, you will both lead the daily work and drive development work at the unit on behalf of the unit manager. The team leader is also an important part of both the employees' professional development and well-being at the workplace.

A large part of the role involves collaboration and cooperation both internally and externally, which is why high demands are placed on you as an applicant to be a secure and collaboration-oriented person who finds it easy to create good and trust-based relationships.

Transition work towards a new Social Services Act is ongoing at the unit, which is why it is important that you are secure in driving change processes.

The role also includes administrative tasks such as creating routines and processes, producing and following statistics, and participating in and analyzing results from systematic follow-ups of interventions. The team leader is also responsible for ensuring legal security and treatment processes in cases ongoing in the group and is an important part of the employees' daily support.

Your Profile

As a leader, you are stable, clear, and responsive. Qualities highly valued for the position are that you are structured, self-initiating, and find it easy to collaborate. You are positive and good at finding solutions and thrive with an occasionally high work pace. We also see that you have a very good ability to create good relationships and communicate clearly, both verbally and in writing. Good conditions for your work are important, so for support in your assignment, you have competent employees and an accessible unit manager.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who:

• Have a degree in Social Work (Social Worker)
• Have experience in leadership positions

It is also meritorious if you:

• Have education in SAVRY or RBM
• Have experience in treatment work with the target group of norm-breaking behavior
• Have a good ability to drive method development
• Have leadership training
• Have extensive knowledge within NPF (documented)
• Have worked with systematic follow-ups

In the recruitment process, we will place great emphasis on personal suitability. For this position, we want you to present an extract from the criminal record register before employment. The extract is ordered directly from the police website and presented in original together with identification. In your application, you attach your degree.

Why Huddinge?

In order for us to be able to perform our mission, you as an employee in Huddinge Municipality are the most important thing we have. Therefore, we offer a number of benefits for a sustainable working life and to facilitate your everyday life: Read more about benefits (https://www.huddinge.se/arbete-och-karriar/arbeta-i-huddinge-kommun/#Formaner).

Union Contact Person

For union contact person for the position, see Union contact information (#).

Information

If you have questions about the position, please contact Kristina Wahlqvist, Unit Manager: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]).

In order for us to handle all applications in the best possible way, we ask you to apply directly via our advertised positions. We do not accept spontaneous applications via email.

The position is subject to the condition that necessary decisions are made.

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Employment Type: Fixed-term employment.
Duration: 6 months or longer.