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We are looking for a Family Home Secretary to join the Contractor Unit. As a Family Home Secretary within the Children and Youth department, you will have a meaningful and challenging job. We perform tasks that make a real difference for our children and young people – with us, it is for real.

A day at work

As a Family Home Secretary in the emergency home group, you are responsible for both new recruitment and mentoring emergency and family homes. You work closely with social secretaries and drive cases forward with the child's perspective in focus. The role also includes training contractors and leading introduction meetings together with other Family Home Secretaries.

You are responsible for drawing up agreements and managing financial routines in cases regarding compensation. The target group is children and young people aged 0–20 placed in emergency homes, as well as other contractors linked to the unit. Some evening and weekend work is required, and there is an option to work from home 1 day per week. We work in an open-plan office.

The Contractor Unit actively works to develop operations and create an organization that provides good working conditions and high quality in investigations and support for contractors. We offer interesting and challenging work with good opportunities for you to grow. Here, you get the chance to work in a team with good morale and effective collaboration.

We work with participation and quality in a respectful manner, both within and outside the unit and towards our contractors. The unit consists of 22 employees.

We investigate contractors based on the investigation model "A Lasting Relationship". Children and youth use the business system Combine, and we work with the Signs of Safety method.

Who are you?

With us, you represent the Social Services' Children and Youth department towards contractors, clients, citizens, and cooperating partners. Therefore, you possess broad knowledge of the Social Services' authority exercises and interventions and can make independent assessments in cases. You are flexible and can work at a high pace.

Requirements:

• Social work degree or equivalent education/degree approved by the employer
• Experience in authority exercises
• Category B driver's license
• Good knowledge of Swedish in both speech and writing

Merits:

• Experience working within family home care and recruitment of emergency, contact, or family homes
• Experience working in Combine

Personal qualities:

• You have a strong commitment to social work
• You possess good social skills and can collaborate internally and externally
• You have a good attitude and provide good service to clients, colleagues, and cooperating partners

We place great importance on your personal qualities.

What we offer you

• An introduction to the Children and Youth department
• Competence development, external supervision and support, as well as internal training such as BBIC
• You will be offered training in the Signs of Safety model during your first year with us
• Generous wellness allowance of up to 3,000 SEK per year
• Annual working hours

As an employee of Södertälje Municipality, you are offered a secure employment, good terms of employment and working environment, competence development, and several benefits. Please read more about us on our website and for more information about our benefits: https://www.sodertalje.se/kommun-och-politik/jobba-hos-oss/formaner/ (https://www.sodertalje.se/kommun-och-politik/jobba-hos-oss/formaner/)

Welcome to us!

Other

Selection and interviews may take place continuously during the application period.

Södertälje Municipality works with competence-based recruitment methodology to counteract discrimination and promote diversity in the workplace.

We have many positions where we conduct register checks. A certificate of good conduct (criminal record and suspicion register) from the Swedish Police Authority may therefore need to be presented by the candidate before a decision on employment is made.

An employment with us may involve placement in a security class. A security clearance with register check according to the Security Protection Act (2018:585) may therefore be conducted before a decision on employment. For some of our tasks in the security class, Swedish citizenship is required.