Vacant job

Trygga Familjehem i Sverige AB is currently seeking families and single individuals who wish to help children and young people aged 0–20. We are looking for both family homes and emergency care homes (jour homes).

Being a family home or emergency care home

Being a foster family is interesting, challenging, and above all rewarding! It is about opening the doors to your home, your family, and your daily life, offering safety, guidelines, rules, and above all, much joy, care, and a desire to share your life.

This naturally involves a significant challenge and requires a clear ambition to succeed. This ambition must be shared by all family members, and a common understanding of what the assignment entails is crucial. Naturally, everyone is affected when a new individual moves in and becomes part of the family. Note: A single person can also be a foster or emergency care parent.

The most important thing is that you have a genuine interest in helping a child or young person to a better life. You must also be able to collaborate with all actors surrounding the placed child/young person, such as schools, social workers, family home consultants, etc.

To qualify for a placement, you need a little extra of everything; space, time, and capability! Our requirements to begin a foster family investigation include, among others:

• You must not appear in the police's criminal and suspicion register, the Swedish Social Insurance Agency's register regarding long-term sick leave, the Swedish Enforcement Authority's register, or the social register over the last five years.
• There must be an available spare bedroom that can be offered to the placed child, without any family member having to give up their own bedroom. Note that common areas do not count as bedrooms.
• Your residence must be permanent, meaning you do not sublet, live as a lodger, or similar. The residence must be fully furnished and homely.
• You are in good health and fit for work.
• You have a stable income and livelihood.
• At least one of you has time for meetings with social services and our family home consultants.
• You do not have any major upcoming life changes, such as moving, long trips, new studies, pregnancy, or similar.
• You master the Swedish language.

Trygga Familjehem supports, guides, and trains

As a foster family, you receive Trygga Familjehem's basic training for foster families. The purpose is to make the placement as good as possible for the placed child and the foster family. Our consultants are always close at hand for ongoing guidance and training for the family during the placement. Your family home consultant visits you regularly, and you have close cooperation in everything concerning the placed child, e.g., implementation plans and authority contacts. You also have 24/7 support by phone for any question. Trygga Familjehem's working and approach attitude is to be accessible, assist with support, help, ideas, and motivation!

Good financial compensation

Opening up your home for a child, young person, or young adult is not about money, but about helping someone who needs a safe and stable existence. However, you should receive solid compensation for the work you do.

The compensation is paid in two parts: a cost allowance of approx. 6,500 SEK/month to cover food, clothes, travel, etc., and a fee component for the work you perform.

The fee varies from 26,000 SEK/month and upwards, depending on the complexity of the placement.

About Trygga Familjehem

Trygga Familjehem offers consultant-supported emergency and foster care placements. All family home consultants have personal experience of being emergency and foster parents, something we at Trygga Familjehem i Sverige AB value highly.

Are you interested in becoming an emergency or foster home? Recruitment is ongoing.

Click on our website for more information and application! Or email us at [email protected]