Social Worker for Placement Team – Youth Unit, Social Services Administration

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 more than 110,000 residents.

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About the Social Services Administration

The Social Services Administration is responsible for individual and family care, elderly care, and care for people with disabilities. We work preventively with support, interventions, and authority functions 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 independent lives. We are a social service that is at the forefront of preventive work and the transition to an even more accessible and knowledge-based social service.

About the Position

1 position(s).

The Youth Unit is organized into different teams for reception, investigation, intervention, and placement. We work with investigations and follow-up of interventions according to the Social Services Act (SoL) and the Care of Young Persons Act (LVU), and we follow the BBIC structure. Our target group is young people aged 13–20 (with the exception of our reception team, which works with children and young people aged 0–20), their families, and networks.

We are now looking for an engaged social worker to join our placement team!

About the Work

The placement team consists of seven social workers, a group leader, a contract secretary, and two crime coordinators. As a social worker in the team, your task is to follow up on young people placed in HVB homes, SiS facilities, therapeutic families, or supported housing, according to SoL or LVU. You are expected to build relationships and collaborative alliances with your young people and, where applicable, guardians, drive for the young people to receive good care, and meet the needs of young people and parents to the greatest extent possible. We place great emphasis on regularly meeting our young people, which means we travel frequently in this role. We have close cooperation within the team and high engagement with our target group. We have regular supervision and strive for an egalitarian approach, both within the team and with our young people and parents.

Your Profile

We are now looking for an experienced social worker within the field of children and youth. You have a degree in social work and preferably previous experience working with placed young people. You enjoy following young people through the treatment process closely and over time; you never lose hope and remain steady when things get stormy. You have good knowledge of the legislation in our area, you can prioritize and make your own assessments, but you do not hesitate to consult colleagues. You have good collaboration skills and an approach characterized by respect and engagement. You also need to have good verbal and written communication skills.

This is a rewarding role but also one that can be demanding at times. You need to have an internal acceptance that you cannot always do everything and trust that small steps will pay off in the long run. You must also be able to care for your own well-being and set boundaries for your engagement to sustain your presence for the young people over time. We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

Why Huddinge?

To be able to perform our mission, you as an employee in Huddinge Municipality are the most important asset we have. Therefore, we offer a range 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 Johanna Jakobsson, 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.

For this position, you must be able to present a valid extract from the criminal record register before employment can begin. Include your degree with your application.

The position is subject to the necessary decisions being made.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Employment Type: Permanent.
Duration: Permanent.