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Olofström Municipality is committed to providing excellent service to its residents. To deliver the service our residents expect, our employees are our greatest asset. Engaged and involved employees who dare to try new things and strive for high quality make Olofström Municipality an attractive place to live, work, and visit. Through open and clear communication, we create a good work climate that promotes well-being at the workplace. At Olofström Municipality, your talent, ambition, and competence are what matter most.

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Become a Foster Home?

An Important Mission

Becoming a foster home is an opportunity to make a difference for children who need it most. There are several reasons why a child may need to live in a home other than their own. This can be due to parents failing to provide adequate care, adverse circumstances such as violence or substance abuse, the child's own behavior, or the child being unaccompanied and arriving in Sweden without parents. There are different types of foster homes. If the foster home already has a relationship with the child being placed, such as a relative or close friend, it is called a network home. When a child is placed in a foster home, the starting point is that the child will be reunited with their parents as soon as the goal of the intervention is achieved. However, sometimes reunification is not the best option for the child. The length of time a child needs to live in a foster home varies from a single day to their entire upbringing.

We are looking for:

• Secure adults who want to make a difference for a child
• Homes that have both practical and emotional space to take care of a child
• Couples and single individuals

Being a Foster Home Means:

As a foster home, your task is to provide the child with daily care, a secure environment, and a good upbringing. You will work closely with the social services in your municipality to ensure the child's needs are met. Your role may include helping the child with school, ensuring the child receives healthcare, supporting the child in maintaining contact with family and friends, cooperating with the child's parents, and informing social services about the child's well-being.

What is Required to Become a Foster Home?

The social services in your municipality will investigate you and your family's conditions for receiving a child in your home. The investigation includes interviews, home visits, and reference checks. If you and your family are deemed suitable as foster homes, a matching process remains. The municipality will then look at whether you have the conditions to care for the specific child that social services needs to place.

The social services in your municipality will offer you the training you need when you become a foster home. When the child is placed, Social Services will also provide advice, support, and other assistance you need based on your assignment. As a foster home, you receive financial compensation to cover costs for the child and a fixed fee for the assignment itself.

We Offer:

• Compensation according to SKR circulars
• Ongoing advice, support, and supervision
• Training, including "A Home to Grow In"

Want to know more? Contact us to book a no-obligation conversation with one of our foster care secretaries in Olofström! You can also use our e-service for interest registration: Interest Registration for Foster Homes - Olofström Municipality (https://www.olofstrom.se/)

In the event of new employment within the Social and Functional Support Administration in Olofström Municipality, an extract from the criminal record for work in foster homes must be presented. You can order an extract from the criminal record via the link below.

https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/hvb-hem/ (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/hvb-hem/)

Vision and Values

Live life in Olofström Municipality! In our entire nature-rich municipality, everyone can live, work, and grow. Together, we give strength and opportunity for every person to develop throughout their life.

As an employee with us, you are an important resource. Regardless of where you work, you are a representative of Olofström Municipality as a whole. It is important that you share our values and work according to the values: courage, engagement, participation, and quality.

Other Information

Olofström Municipality mobilizes all permanent staff for civil defense purposes.

Olofström Municipality conducts drug testing before making decisions on new employment.

The link below contains consolidated information regarding the most important benefits in the collective agreement we have in Olofström Municipality. The information concerns vacation, salary and allowances, parental leave, insurance, competence development, and pension.

Say Hello to Your Collective Agreement!

Application

We do not accept applications via email. Applications are made via the link at www.olofstrom.se/lediga-jobb. Attach your CV and cover letter.

To staffing and recruitment agencies and to you who are salespeople

We kindly but firmly decline offers of advertising and recruitment services in connection with this advertisement.