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Värmdö is the meeting place of the archipelago, offering a unique combination of nature's quiet beauty and a more urban lifestyle. Our mission is not just one but many: schools, properties, social services, harbors, healthcare, libraries, elderly care, and many more. We work to ensure that all residents of Värmdö can live a rich and free life. We want to be the ones who make the dream of a vibrant, secure environment for home, family, and business possible.

To succeed fully, we need diverse competencies and must work together for a common and trust-based work culture, built on brave, responsible employees who understand the needs and wishes of the residents.

Our Operations

The Social Services in Värmdö Municipality are an organization in active development. We work to ensure that residents who meet us experience accessibility, professional treatment, and participation in the handling of their cases. Our child and youth unit is characterized by a good work climate and a culture where employees are given the conditions to grow and develop in their roles.

We are currently in an exciting phase. Like other social services in the country, we are working on the transition to the new Social Services Act, which means a changed way of working with a greater focus on early and preventive measures. Parallel to this, we are reviewing how the family care group should be organized moving forward – we are investigating the possibility of transforming the group into a placement group with a broadened mandate.

This means that as a group leader, you step into a role where you not only lead an existing group but also help shape it. The group grows from today's six employees to nine or ten, and you have an active role in building the team, defining ways of working, and creating the structures the group needs to function well in its new mandate.

Your Role

As a group leader, you are the closest manager for a group of 6–10 social secretaries within the family care group, consisting of child secretaries, foster home secretaries, and contact secretaries. You have operational responsibility for the group, which means you lead and distribute the daily work within the authority's operations and ensure legally secure case handling based on relevant legislation.

A central part of the role is to actively work with both team and group processes. You create conditions for a well-functioning team where collaboration, trust, and shared responsibility are at the center. Although the formal responsibility for the work environment lies with the unit manager, we place great emphasis on you as a group leader actively contributing to a good work environment – you notice early signals in the group, handle dynamics, and support your employees in their daily work.

You coach and support social secretaries in their professional practice with a special focus on strengthening the work of creating safe homes for children. You actively work to ensure that Signs of Safety permeates the case handling, and you support social secretaries in applying the method when meeting with children, young people, and their families. The child's voice and the child's best interests are always the starting point, and you contribute to ensuring that both children and biological parents are made involved and given influence in their cases. You work closely with your fellow group leaders with a holistic perspective on the operations – you lead together to secure quality, equality, and development in the entire unit.

Your Experience

You are a leader with genuine commitment to both people and operations. You take responsibility, build trust, and motivate your employees to grow in their roles. You are accustomed to leading in complex environments and thrive in being the support the group needs to function well together.

You are clear in your communication and create security by being predictable, present, and consistent. You set direction, give feedback, and ensure that expectations and assignments are well anchored in the group. For you, clarity is not just a way of leading – it is a way of showing respect for your employees.

You have a holistic view and the ability to see the individual, the group, and the operations simultaneously. You understand how individual decisions affect the whole and actively contribute to the unit moving in the same direction. You can hold together the operational and strategic perspectives and always see the child's and family's best interests as the common compass direction.

Requirements for the Position

- Social Worker Degree (Socionom)

- At least 5 years of experience in authority operations within child and youth social services.

- Experience working as a social secretary within family care.

- Previous experience as a group leader within social services authority.

- Basic training in BBIC.

- Valid driver's license (Category B).

Merits

- Basic training in Signs of Safety

- Training in New Kälvesten or other evidence-based methods for investigating foster homes.

We highly value personal suitability.

Application

Interviews are conducted continuously, so apply today. For this position, presenting a valid extract from the police criminal record register is a prerequisite for employment.

Värmdö Municipality offers a wellness allowance, SL public transport card against net salary deduction, and holiday exchange for extra days off. We also actively work to create health-promoting workplaces with a good work environment and apply smoke-free working hours.

We strive for an even gender distribution and see diversity as a strength, welcoming applicants with different backgrounds.

Would you like to know more? You are welcome to contact us, see contact person below.

Contact details for the employee organizations can be found at https://www.varmdo.se/fackligaorganisationer (https://www.varmdo.se/fackligaorganisationer) or via Service Center, 08-570 470 00. We decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this advertisement.