Vacant job

The Social Services Administration in Gislaved is looking for a Social Secretary to join the Unit for Authority, Children and Family.

As an employee in Gislaved Municipality, you are a co-creator in your workplace. You are given the opportunity and expected to contribute to the development of the operations through your knowledge and experience. Among us, respect for differences and the equal value of all people are fundamental.

Job Responsibilities

The Unit for Authority, Children and Family is seeking a Social Secretary to work with children and young people up to the age of 21 and their parents. As a Social Secretary, you will investigate the situation and needs for support of children and young people, make decisions, and follow up on implemented measures. If you like being the "spider in the web," this is a job for you.

The work is based on both the Social Services Act (SoL) and the Care of Young Persons Act (LVU). The operations are led by a team leader and a unit manager. We work according to BBIC (Barns Behov i Centrum - Children's Needs in the Center), and the goal is to conduct high-quality social work built on knowledge, continuity, participation, and a holistic view.

We can offer challenging and developmental tasks within the framework of a supportive culture. The unit consists of a unit manager, 3 team leaders, and 25 social secretaries, of which 7 social secretaries and 1 team leader are within the foster care service, distributed among 3 foster care secretaries and 5 child secretaries.

To create job satisfaction and good quality in the work as well as a good working environment, you work together with colleagues who have broad competence and are happy to help each other. We are engaged and see it as a matter of course to work with the individual's needs in focus. For us, it is important to develop, with active employee participation and trust-based leadership, we want you to contribute to improving our operations. We are a workplace where our employees thrive, feel good, and develop, which is evident in our continuous employee surveys.

Qualifications

You are educated as a social worker or have another education assessed as equivalent for authority work concerning children and young people. It is an advantage if you have experience working with authority work within the target group of children and youth. You have good communication skills and can express yourself well in Swedish, both orally and in writing.

You have the ability to analyze complex problems, see the long-term significance and further consequences of matters, and adapt your actions accordingly. You see opportunities in changes and contribute new ideas and new approaches to work-related issues. You view the operations from a holistic perspective, can connect the whole and the parts, the future and the present. We want you to be able to take initiative, start activities, and achieve results. You also have the ability to structure your work independently and prioritize among the tasks to be performed by focusing on the right things when much is happening around you.

We are looking for someone who listens, communicates, and resolves conflicts in a constructive manner. You have the ability to put yourself in someone else's perspective or situation without taking over the person's feelings, and you need to be calm and stable while showing courage in difficult situations.

A Category B driver's license is required.

What We Offer

• A strong sense of team spirit with engaged colleagues.
• Good working hours.
• Opportunities for remote work.
• Competitive salaries.
• External supervision.
• Competence development through the professional journey, e.g., difficult conversations, in-depth LVU training, etc.
• Paid vacation from the first year of employment.
• Free swimming at the municipality's swimming facilities and a discount on gym memberships.
• Free parking at the workplace.
• A very good employee club and an internal well-being group.

Your employee participation is deeply linked to your ability to collaborate and participate in the development of yourself and the operations. Among us, this means that you have good cooperation with your manager and colleagues, both at your own workplace and in the rest of the municipal group. You treat everyone with a high level of service, kindness, and high quality through a customer- and service focus. You take responsibility for becoming involved in operational issues and are solution-oriented.

We place great emphasis on personal suitability and that your view of employee participation aligns with ours.

We apply register checks (extract from the criminal record) as a form of suitability assessment for all who are offered employment in operations where there is direct and regular contact with children and young people.

Do you want to be part of our success? Send us your application!

In Gislaved Municipality, full-time employment is a right, and therefore vacant positions are advertised as full-time. When the operations can accommodate part-time work, it is of course an option. *Positions shorter than 3 months and certain positions may be exempted. In connection with the recruitment process, Gislaved Municipality has taken a stance on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore expressly decline contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.