Child Secretary for the Foster Care Unit in Landskrona

Landskrona is making progress in many areas. New areas with sea-near housing are emerging, and more and more companies are choosing to establish themselves here. The location in the middle of the Öresund Region, with proximity to bathing, city life, nature, and culture, attracts more and more people to move in, establish businesses, and visit.

In Landskrona City, with just over 3,300 employees, we work according to our core values BRA, where B stands for Treatment (Bemötande), R for Results (Resultat), and A for Responsibility (Ansvar). Our core values should permeate all our activities, and we aim to be a workplace where you feel joy in work and pride. Here, there is room for you with courage and initiative, and you get the opportunity to develop.

Do you want to be part of shaping the development in one of Scania's most exciting cities? We welcome your application!

Are you ready to make a difference? Become part of the Individual and Family Administration!

We at the Individual and Family Administration are committed to supporting children, young people, adults, and families through social work within various areas of social services. With a focus on high quality and individualized interventions, we always strive to help people live their lives independently.

Why choose us?

• Exciting development phase: We are in a dynamic phase where we are modernizing and adapting our working methods to reach more residents in new and innovative ways.
• Engaging work environment: Here, you have the opportunity to work in an inspiring environment where we value collaboration and development.
• Signs of Safety: We work according to the successful method Signs of Safety, which means we focus on building strong and sustainable solutions together with those we support.

Welcome to a workplace where you can truly make a difference!

Number of positions: 2

Job Responsibilities

Do you want to work in a operation where you can truly influence children's futures and contribute to security, stability, and development? As a Child Secretary at the Foster Care Unit, you will become an important part of a meaningful and socially significant assignment. You are responsible for following up on the child's situation and ensuring that their basic needs for security, care, and stability are met. Your work includes among other things:

• Being the responsible caregiver for children placed in foster homes according to the Social Services Act (SoL) or the Law on Care of Young Persons (LVU).
• Maintaining regular contact with the child, birth parents, the foster home, school, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (BUP), healthcare, and other relevant actors.
• Conducting individual conversations with the child and safeguarding the child's rights and voice in all decisions.
• Making regular home visits and follow-ups in the foster home.
• Conducting investigations, assessments, and working with legal processes.
• Making decisions and driving a legally secure work based on current legislation.
• Working closely together with Foster Care Secretaries who recruit and supervise foster homes.

Here you have the opportunity to work in a strong and supportive team where you both get to develop yourself and contribute to the development of our operations. You get a role with great responsibility, varied assignments, and the opportunity to make a concrete difference in the children's lives with your presence and competence.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who are secure, empathetic, and driven, and who have a strong desire to work for the best interests of children. You have a good ability to handle stress and maintain calm in complex situations. You are secure and strong in yourself and can handle stress in a healthy way. Your ability to build trusting relationships is of the utmost importance. Therefore, we see that you are skilled at communicating and creating secure contact with both children and adults.

You thrive in independent work where you drive and develop your work on your own in a legally secure manner. We also see that you have a good ability to prioritize and organize your work. At the same time, collaboration is an important part of your work, with both internal and external actors. Working with others towards a common goal should therefore come naturally to you.

Requirements:

• Social work degree (Social Worker) or other education that can be assessed as equivalent.
• Experience in authority decision-making regarding children and young people.
• Very good ability to express yourself in Swedish, both orally and in writing.
• Good knowledge of relevant legislation.
• Category B driver's license.

Merits:

Beyond these requirements, we consider it highly meritorious if you have previous experience working within foster care operations. It is also meritorious if you have relevant system familiarity, especially with the systems LifeCare and Ommej.

In this recruitment, we ask you to attach your CV and answer a number of selection questions. The purpose of the selection questions is to create a more efficient and fair recruitment process, where all candidates are assessed based on the same competency-based criteria.

Employment Conditions

• Salary: Monthly salary.
• Employment type: Permanent position.
• Duration: Permanent, start date: 2026-08-01.
• Working hours: Daytime.

Welcome with your application!

Employer information: landskrona.se/jobbailandskronastad

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