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Stockholm – our capital city with millions of dreams, expectations, and ambitions. We work for everyone living here today and in the future. We are now looking for you who want to think big, new, and different with us – for the people of Stockholm.

The Skärholmen District Office is one of Stockholm City's 11 district offices and covers the districts of Bredäng, Sätra, Skärholmen, and Vårberg. More than 1,000 employees work here for our 38,000 residents. We offer a municipal service that we are proud of, and we have fantastic diversity. Welcome with your unique contribution!

Welcome to us!

To the Child and Youth Prevention unit, we are now looking for a Family Therapist who wants to strengthen our team as one of our experienced colleagues retires.

With us, you will work with family therapy in a preventive context, focusing on early interventions for children, young people, and their families. The work involves creating conditions for sustainable changes together with families and strengthening their own resources.

The unit consists of a youth clinic, field operations, school social workers, a parent clinic, social intervention groups, and SSPF, and is part of the Prevention and Promotion area. The Leisure area is also part of this section. We are in a development phase where we are further developing our working methods to meet the new Social Services Act and the needs of children, young people, and families in the district. As a Family Therapist, you will have an important role in this work and the opportunity to contribute with experience, ideas, and commitment.

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We offer

We work to make a difference for our children and young people in Skärholmen. We offer a developmental job where you get the opportunity to work with engaged and experienced colleagues as well as an exciting target group. You will work in a unit that is constantly developing. With us, you get wonderful colleagues who enjoy their work.

As an employee, you have a wellness allowance and the opportunity to take advantage of favorable offers from several gym chains and swimming pools. Please read more about our benefits.

Your role

In the role of Family Therapist in the School Social Team (SST), you work with family-therapeutic interventions for children and young people with problematic school absenteeism, including students who are homebound. The assignment is part of a collaboration model between social services and schools, where you, together with a psychologist and a special educator, work to create conditions for a functioning school attendance.

An important part of your work as a Family Therapist is to conduct in-depth mapping of the student's and family's situation to identify obstacles to school attendance. Based on the mapping, you work systematically and knowledge-based together with the family to remove obstacles and create sustainable changes. You work closely with the family, and it is the family's needs that determine how the work is planned and carried out, which means that interventions can take place in different environments and at times that suit the family. You work independently in your family-therapeutic role, while having close and continuous collaboration with other professions in the team as well as with the school.

Together with a psychologist and a special educator, you support the student, guardian, and school in a joint effort towards the goal of the student achieving a functioning school attendance. The interventions aim to increase school attendance, increase goal fulfillment, and strengthen well-being for both the student and the family.

Your competence and experience

We are looking for you who have:

• a degree in Social Work (Social Worker)
• at least two years of current experience working in authority matters with children and young people and/or experience in family-therapeutic work
• good proficiency in spoken and written Swedish

We consider the following to be meritorious:

• knowledge of and experience working with children and young people with problematic school absenteeism
• basic psychotherapy education or other further education that the employer considers equivalent, for example, systems-theoretical or CBT-oriented
• current and documented good ability to collaborate with other professions and authorities regarding the target group
• knowledge of and experience working with children and young people with neuropsychiatric disabilities

We are looking for you who are secure, stable, and have good self-awareness. You take responsibility and drive the work forward independently, both structured and goal-oriented. The role requires that you have good collaboration skills, the ability to establish contacts and maintain relationships. A clear child's perspective characterizes and permeates your work. You place great importance on involving children, young people, parents, and networks in the treatment. You are flexible in your working method and can adapt interventions based on the family's and the organization's needs. You adapt quickly when conditions change, while maintaining focus on the assignment's goals and quality.

Other

We recruit without a personal letter in this recruitment to strengthen the focus on the competencies and experiences required for this role. In assessing your application, we will only rely on your CV and a number of questions you will answer when applying for the position. We request that you answer the questions concretely and concisely, and that there is a clear link between your answers and your CV. We see diversity as enriching and welcome all applicants. We will place great emphasis on your personal abilities, skills, and motivation for the position.

Please attach your degree certificate to your application. The position includes a background check. The person offered employment must provide an extract from the Police Register of Offenses before employment.

Welcome with your application!

Stockholm City works with competence-based recruitment aimed at considering each person's competence and thus combating discrimination.