Vacant job

Description

As an employee at 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. Respect for differences and the equal value of all people are fundamental to us.

Here, you will meet dedicated colleagues with broad competence and a close collaboration where we help and support each other. We work based on trust-based leadership and believe in participation, development, and active employee engagement. We are proud to be a workplace where employees thrive, develop, and feel well.

The Authority for Children and Families unit consists of a unit manager, three group leaders, and 25 social secretaries, of whom eight social secretaries and one group leader work within the foster care service. These are distributed among three foster care secretaries and five child case workers.

Job Responsibilities

As a Child Secretary (Barnsekreterare), you are responsible for following up on children and young people placed in foster homes. You play a vital role in creating safety and continuity for the child by maintaining regular contact with both the child, the foster family, and the biological parents.

The work is carried out in close collaboration with the foster care secretaries regarding the placed child or young person. The role involves many points of contact and suits you if you enjoy coordinating, building relationships, and keeping processes together.

We strive to create good conditions for children placed in foster homes and their foster families. Participation, good relationships, and respectful collaboration between the child, biological parents, and foster families are central to our work. The working group actively works on developing and improving the operations, and several exciting development areas are underway.

The work is based on the Social Services Act (SoL) and the Law on Care of Young Persons (LVU). We work according to CBIC (Children's Needs in Focus) and strive for high-quality social work built on knowledge, continuity, participation, and a holistic view.

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 meritorious if you have experience working with authority work within the target group of children and young people. If you have equivalent education but need to complete a few courses, we will arrange this if you are the right person.

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 with new ideas and approaches in work-related issues. You view the operations from a holistic perspective, can connect the whole and the parts, future and present. We want you 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 constructively, and who can express themselves well in Swedish, both orally and in writing. 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, showing courage in difficult situations.

Our foster homes are located throughout Sweden, which means some travel is required as part of the job.

What We Offer

• A strong sense of team and dedicated colleagues
• Good working hours
• Opportunities for remote work
• Competitive salary
• External supervision
• Competence development through "Yrkesresan", e.g., difficult conversations and in-depth LVU training
• Paid vacation from the first year of employment
• Free swimming at the municipality's pool facilities and a discount on gym memberships
• Free parking
• A valued staff club

Your employee engagement is deeply linked to your ability to collaborate and participate in the development of yourself and the operations. Here, this means you have good cooperation with managers and colleagues, both at your own workplace and within 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 participating in operational issues and are solution-oriented.

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

We apply register checks (extracts from the criminal record) as a form of suitability assessment for all offered positions 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!

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