Team Leader for Youth at Risk (UIR) – Huddinge Municipality

Do you value proximity, growth, and creating the best conditions for everyone who lives and works in Huddinge Municipality? We offer numerous career opportunities in a well-functioning and growing municipality, with both nature and city life just around the corner. Here, you feel secure, involved, and proud as we make a difference every day. In 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 over 110,000 residents.

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Huddinge Municipality strives to be a secure, legally sound, and professional operation. As part of our recruitment process, we may therefore conduct background checks and request extracts from criminal records in the final stages of certain recruitments. If you are considered for this, you will receive clear information and the opportunity to give your consent before the check is carried out.

About the Social Services Administration

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

Our mission is to increase individuals' conditions for living under the best possible living conditions and to strengthen individuals to live independent lives. We are a social services authority at the forefront of preventive work and the transition to an even more accessible and knowledge-based social service.

About the Workplace

The Youth Outpatient Unit 13-20 years is part of the Child and Youth Section, which has a cohesive organization and overall responsibility for preventive work, investigations, and both assessed and non-assessed interventions for children, young people, and families. A total of 240 employees work in the section. The section is undergoing a transition process 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 Youth at Risk. We are now looking for a Team Leader for the Youth at Risk (UIR) group.

UIR consists of 8 employees working with SIG/SSPF, Youth Therapist, Youth Service, Rätt Kurva, Support Center for Young Crime Victims, and mediation. In UIR, we work with both non-assessed and assessed interventions. UIR has the mandate to provide support and treatment to individual young people and their families.

This is a fixed-term contract lasting from September 1, 2026, to August 15, 2027.

Responsibilities

Youth at Risk is now looking for a competent, engaged, and driven Team Leader who wants to contribute to UIR's work of offering 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 we place great demands on you as an applicant being a secure and cooperation-oriented person who finds it easy to build good and trusting relationships.

The unit is undergoing a transition process towards a new Social Services Act, which is why it is important that you are comfortable 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 certainty and treatment processes in cases ongoing in the group and is an important part of the daily support for employees.

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 have a great ability to collaborate. You are positive, good at finding solutions, and thrive with a sometimes high work pace. We also see that you have a very good ability to build good relationships and communicate clearly, both verbally and in writing. Good conditions for your work are important, so to support your mission, you have competent employees and an accessible Unit Manager.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who:

• Have a degree in Social Work (Social Work)
• Have experience in supervisory positions

It is also meritorious if you:

• Have training in SAVRY, RBM
• Have experience in therapeutic work with the target group of norm-breaking behavior
• Have a good ability to drive method development
• Have leadership training
• Have extensive knowledge within ASD/ADHD (documented)
• Have worked with systematic follow-ups

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

Why Huddinge?

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 daily life: Read more about benefits (https://www.huddinge.se/arbete-och-karriar/arbeta-i-huddinge-kommun/#Formaner)

Information

For questions about the position, please contact Kristina Wahlqvist, Unit Manager: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

To ensure we 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 will be filled subject to necessary decisions being made.

We look forward to receiving your application!

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