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Are you our new colleague? We are expanding with a new unit within Child and Family Services (BoF), SF Southwest, and are looking for a Senior Social Secretary for one of our teams.

About the job

Our newly established unit will consist of two teams, each with six social secretaries. Each team is led by a senior social secretary, and the unit is managed by a unit manager. One team works with official duties regarding children at risk of criminal involvement (ages 6–12), and the other team works with the target group of youth in criminal involvement (ages 13–18). All teams work with the age group 0–18. Since the unit is new, you and the other employees will have the opportunity to influence and develop working methods within the unit.

In your role as Senior Social Secretary, you distribute and lead the work. You are responsible for case distribution, case management, and legal certainty within your team. It is important for you to be accessible, to coach, and to provide methodological guidance in daily work. You guide social secretaries on the importance of good treatment and collaboration with the family, their network, and cooperation partners (both within and outside the administration). As a Senior Social Secretary, you represent the social services in individual committees, administrative courts, administrative courts of appeal, and similar legal processes. Keeping up to date with laws, regulations, and current research is a natural part of your work. It is important and necessary to be able to collaborate and cooperate with others in this role. Here you work together with your senior colleagues; you have close contact where you support each other and develop the operations.

Together with other Senior Social Secretaries, you conduct reviews of laws, regulations, and the National Board of Health and Welfare's guidelines for social secretaries. You collaborate with other senior colleagues within the City of Gothenburg and participate in regular network meetings.

We work with the best interests of the child in focus and use LÖSA as a tool to increase children's participation. We have a solution-focused approach and deepen the investigation work by offering our social secretaries the opportunity to participate in development groups, such as VIN, School, Disability Support, Psychiatry, and BBIC. We have also appointed Social Secretaries with Special Assignments (SMSU), whose task is to introduce new case handlers, which relieves you as a Senior Social Secretary. You work on behalf of and together with the responsible manager. You have access to your own office. Process guidance is conducted together with other Senior Social Secretaries within BoF. Our office is strategically located at Lergöksgatan 2a, near Frölunda Torg.

About you

For this position, we are looking for you who have a degree in social work and several years of experience in official duties within the field of Children and Youth. You have a strong child perspective and work to ensure the child's voice and participation in the case handling process. You have good knowledge and practical experience of current legislation. We want you to be well-versed in case handling and documentation within Child and Youth Services, based on legal certainty and quality, and that you can guide social secretaries well in the area. We would like you to have previous experience of leadership roles, for example as a Senior Social Secretary. This is not a requirement, but having a B-driving license is an advantage.

You are calm and secure in pressured and difficult situations. You can balance the demands placed on you and can, despite time pressure, make well-founded decisions. You take responsibility for your tasks and the group's tasks. You think about those we are here for and their best interests. You do your best to complete all tasks correctly and follow up on the results.

You work well with others by listening, showing interest, and respect. You understand the common mission and work to make it as good as possible. You can see your work as part of a larger context and understand how it affects and is affected by other parts of the organization. You collaborate with others on overarching issues to create value.

You take into account different information sources and perspectives and can adapt others' ideas to your own operations. You plan, organize, and prioritize work effectively. You ensure that work is completed on time and follow up on the results. You can effectively identify and analyze the core of a problem and propose possible solutions. You have the ability to see connections and draw logical conclusions from limited and/or complex information.

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The City of Gothenburg is one of Sweden's largest employers. Our mission is to create a good everyday life for Gothenburg's residents, visitors, and businesses. As an employee in the city, you have a secure employment with many career paths where you get the opportunity for interesting and meaningful tasks. The City of Gothenburg applies individual and differentiated salary setting. Here you can get more information about, among other things, salary statistics: goteborg.se/Jobba i Göteborgs Stad (https://www.goteborg.se/Jobba-i-Goteborgs-Stad/Sa-ar-det-att-jobba-i-Goteborgs-Stad/Lon-ersattningar-och-formaner).

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About us

The Southwest Social Administration is one of four social administrations in the City of Gothenburg with around 900 employees. In the southwest urban area, approximately 120,000 people live, and the area stretches from Billdal to Högsbohöjd and to the southern archipelago. The administration's mission is that children, young people, and adults should be able to live a secure and independent life and that children and young people have a rich leisure time. The administration also works to support people experiencing homelessness into permanent housing. Through collaboration with civil society, local business, and other actors, we aim to improve public health and security in the area.

In the Southwest Social Administration, we want to capitalize on the commitment of all employees. With us, you can influence both your own job and other people's lives.