Social Secretary for Youth Placement Unit – Nässjö Municipality

Are you a social worker with experience as a social secretary for placed children and youth? Do you want to work with us, where we together solve today's and tomorrow's challenges in social services? Welcome to Nässjö!

We work from a holistic perspective on people's needs. Therefore, we have a unified administration working with the entire mandate of social services under the motto "We support an independent life". Nässjö Municipality has a focus goal to provide children with the prerequisites for a good upbringing. To perform this work in the best way and to give greater opportunities for the development of the work, we are organized into three units for children and young people: Assessment Unit, Placement Unit, and Intervention Unit. In total, we have approximately 65 employees, and the units collaborate closely.

The Placement Unit is seeking a Social Secretary for the Youth Group to follow up on placed youth.

The unit consists of the Youth Group and the Foster Care Group. In the Youth Group, social secretaries handle assessments and follow up on placed youth. In the Foster Care Group, social secretaries follow up on placed children, and foster care secretaries recruit and supervise our service providers. The groups each have a group leader who supervises work and distributes cases.

The Unit has extensive experience, broad competence, as well as job satisfaction and a strong commitment to continuously developing our working methods regarding placed children and youth.

1 position(s).

Job Responsibilities

We are looking for you who have a strong commitment to young people and want to work specifically with placed youth. You follow up on placed youth in foster homes, residential care facilities (HVB), or supported housing, and coordinate other contacts around the youth, such as family, network, school, and other authorities. Assessment work occurs, often together with assessing social secretaries in the Youth Group. The work is based on the Social Services Act (SoL) and the Act with Special Provisions on Care of Young Persons (LVU). Follow-up of placement according to the Act on Placement of Children in Protected Housing (LSB) may occur. In the Youth Group, cases are also handled according to the Act with Special Provisions on Young Offenders (LUL).

You work in a team with both foster care secretaries and other social secretaries for placed children and youth. The position involves travel to placements, which may entail evening work.

As a follow-up social secretary, you participate in the unit's Strengthened Consultations where placement-related cases are raised. Here, care is also followed up and quality assured until discharge, with a focus on handling difficulties and challenges in a solution-oriented and proactive manner. We work together to create the best prerequisites for our children and youth.

We have an official BBIC license and document in Combine. External supervision is included in the position.

Qualifications

We are looking for you with a degree in social work or other relevant education. You have experience in the authority functions of social services, preferably directed towards children and young people. You have good knowledge of the mandate of social services and current legislation. Experience with BBIC is meritorious.

As a person, you are meticulous, independent, and have an easy time handling changes in prerequisites and planning in the work. Since the work involves many contacts, both internally and externally, you should have teamwork skills, be outgoing, and positive. You should be able to express yourself well in speech and writing. Great emphasis is placed on personal suitability. We are looking for you who have a driver's license.

What We Offer

• Salary: Monthly salary.
• Employment Type: Permanent position.
• Duration: Permanent.
• Start Date: According to agreement, earliest 2026-09-01.
• Working Hours: Daytime.

Please read more about what it is like to work in Nässjö Municipality at www.nassjo.se (http://www.nassjo.se).

To ensure efficient, fast, and secure handling of your application, we ask you to send your application via our recruitment tool. Apply directly via the link in the advertisement. Interviews will take place continuously during the application period.

If you have a protected identity and wish to apply for the advertised position, you are welcome to send application documents to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]). The email must clearly state which position you are applying for.

In connection with the recruitment process, Nässjö Municipality has taken a stance on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore expressly decline contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.