Family Home Secretary for the Recruitment Unit in Gävle

Do you want to help make Gävle even better with us? At Gävle Municipality, we work together with dedication to offer our residents a safe and inspiring environment. We offer you a workplace built on trust, where you can develop professionally and grow as a person. We welcome your application!

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Job Description

Are you a social worker and want to contribute to children and young people growing up in safe and loving environments?

We are now looking for a Family Home Secretary for the Recruitment Unit within Välfärd Gävle. Here, you will play a crucial role in recruiting and assessing foster homes and contact families for children and young people in need of support. Together, we make Gävle better.

The Recruitment Unit is centrally located in Gävle. Our unit consists of 19 employees and a unit manager. As a Family Home Secretary, your main tasks will be to recruit and assess various types of service providers, primarily focusing on contact families and foster homes. Other central responsibilities include drawing up agreements and handling financial matters.

As a Family Home Secretary at our organization, you will belong to the Authority Office, which collaborates closely with Välfärd Gävle's assessment units. We offer meaningful and exciting tasks with independent professional responsibility and a broad network of contacts. You will be involved in developing our work for children and young people as well as for our service providers.

As a Family Home Secretary, you will among other things:

• Conduct assessments and evaluations of contact and foster homes and contact persons.
• Draft agreements and handle administrative processes related to assignments.
• Provide information and support regarding fees, allowances, and economics.
• Collaborate with social secretaries, foster homes, contact families, and other partners.
• Contribute to the development of working methods and quality within the foster care service.

Our driving force is that every child should grow up in a safe and loving environment. Do you want to help develop foster care in Gävle together with us? We warmly welcome your application.

Qualifications

We are looking for someone who:

• Has a degree in Social Work (Social Worker).
• Has good documentation habits and can express yourself well both orally and in writing.
• Hold a valid driver's license (Category B) and feel confident driving for work purposes.
• Have good reading comprehension and the ability to analyze, compile, and draw conclusions from extensive information.
• Demonstrate a professional attitude and a strong commitment to the safety, development, and upbringing conditions of children and young people.

It is an advantage if you have:

• Experience with child welfare investigations as well as assessments of contact families and foster homes.
• Experience in recruiting, assessing, and investigating foster homes.
• Knowledge of and experience with the Treserva activity system.
• Experience in exercising authority within the social services sector.

To succeed and thrive in this role, we see that you:

• Work in a structured and methodical manner, with good skills in planning, prioritizing, and meeting deadlines.
• Are relationship-building and easily establish trusting and professional relationships with people in various life situations.
• Have good collaboration skills and contribute to a positive work climate through an egalitarian and solution-oriented approach.
• Are flexible and can adapt to changed conditions and the needs of the operation.
• Communicate clearly and listen attentively, adapting your message to the recipient and situation.
• Take initiative, work independently, and drive your tasks forward with engagement and responsibility.

A certificate of good conduct (extract from the police register) is required for this position. This will only be requested from the final candidate in the last step of the recruitment process.

Employment type: Permanent position.
Duration: Permanent, start date: 2026-10-01 Or by agreement.
Working hours: Daytime.

We offer you

You are important to us! As an employee at Gävle Municipality, you have:

• Generous holiday conditions, and as a new employee, you are entitled to paid leave already during your first year of employment.
• Subsidy for fitness and exercise when employed for more than three months.
• Various insurances through our collective agreements, including health insurance and occupational injury insurance.

Read more about our benefits here: https://www.gavle.se/formaner (https://www.gavle.se/formaner)

Our Values

Quality, treatment, and collaboration are the most important success factors for carrying out our mission in the best way. To do the right things and act wisely in our daily lives, it is important that we base our actions on our jointly stated values.

Read more about us as an employer and what it is like to work at Gävle Municipality here:
https://www.gavle.se/jobbahososs (https://www.gavle.se/jobbahososs)

Here you can read more about our organization:
https://www.gavle.se/organisation (https://www.gavle.se/organisation)

Gävle Municipality is part of the Finnish-speaking administrative area. Therefore, if you speak Finnish in addition to meeting our other competence requirements, it may be an advantage.

Information for recruitment consultants and ad sellers: We decline all contact regarding advertising and recruitment services.