Vacant job

Do you want to work daily making a difference for children placed in foster care, within a team that values a good work environment and is driven to develop foster care services? Do you also want the opportunity to work at a company with exciting development possibilities, where joy, engagement, and responsibility are key words? Now you have the chance to become a Foster Care Consultant at Humana.

About the role

The unit we are recruiting for is called Humana Balans Foster Care and currently consists of 3 Foster Care Consultants based in Luleå. The unit works together with Umeå Foster Care, which has consultants in Umeå, Härnösand, Sundsvall, and Östersund. The Unit Manager is based in Umeå. Our catchment area covers Norrbotten, Västerbotten, Västernorrland, and Jämtland.

As a Foster Care Consultant with us, the job is very flexible, and many tasks can be performed remotely. We require that you are located in or based from Luleå or Norrbotten County.

In this role, you will work with recruiting, investigating, training, and supervising foster homes. You will serve as a professional support in their important mission. We also have close cooperation with our outpatient care and can offer combined interventions when needed.

Your main responsibilities:

• Recruit, investigate, and train foster homes.
• Support and guide day-care and foster homes in their mission.
• Establish and maintain good customer contacts and ensure ongoing written documentation of supervisory efforts.
• Actively contribute to the development of our consultant-supported foster care through evidence-based methods.
• Be part of our team while also working independently and taking responsibility for your own cases.
• Participate in on-call duties (evenings and weekends may occur).

Who are you?

To thrive and succeed in the role of Foster Care Consultant, we are looking for you who is a secure and humble team player. You enjoy working closely with colleagues, generously share your knowledge, and actively contribute to an inclusive and positive work environment. We see that you possess the following competencies:

• Collaboration and communication: You are a skilled communicator who navigates securely in complex collaborative relationships. You have the ability to handle and balance different perspectives between foster homes, social services, and colleagues, even in situations where opinions differ, and you do this with a solution-oriented and respectful approach.
• Motivation and entrepreneurial spirit: You are used to driving processes forward, taking responsibility, and do not hesitate to make difficult decisions or guide foster homes in complex situations.
• Problem-solving skills: You thrive with complex tasks and have strong confidence in your own ability to find constructive solutions.
• Stress management: You are stress-resistant, organized, and enjoy keeping many processes going simultaneously, even during periods of high tempo.

Duration/Working hours: Permanent position, 100%, flexible working hours. A 6-month probationary period applies. Start date: according to agreement.

We offer:

• An open work climate characterized by our core values: joy, engagement, and responsibility.
• Developing work with access to high competence and supervision.
• Internal and external training opportunities.
• Collective agreement, occupational pension, insurance, wellness allowance, and access to our internal learning portal.

For this position, you must:

• be a trained social worker with at least three years of experience from work in municipal social services
• have a B driver's license and enjoy driving, as the role involves regular travel out to our foster homes.

It is also meritorious if you:

• have experience in investigating, training, and supervising foster homes or have experience from a therapeutic position.

What happens next?

We warmly welcome your application! We review selections on an ongoing basis and look forward to hearing from you. The position may be filled before the application deadline.

If you want to know more about the position or the recruitment process, you are warmly welcome to contact us!

Contact information

Jeanette Åsemar, Unit Manager: [email protected] 070-747 87 13