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Do you want to help shape the future of social services with us in Karlshamn?

In Karlshamn Municipality, we are investing in creating an efficient and client-friendly social service built on accessibility, respect, and competence. Together within the unit and our outpatient care, we work according to the "Signs of Safety" approach. Our guiding star is our vision:

"We gather around the child and believe in the family's strength and participation. With competence and heart, we meet you with respect and engagement."

About the job:

Through our approach, participation and collaboration with families are seen as a given. As a Social Secretary, you believe in the parents' and children's own ability to change and see their own resources. We also work with "Children's Needs in Focus" (BBIC), which contributes to a structure for case handling, implementation, and follow-up of authority exercises.

The main tasks consist of investigation, case handling, and follow-up of interventions according to both the Social Services Act (SoL) and the Law on Care of Young Persons (LVU). The work is characterized by collaboration both internally and with external actors such as schools, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (BUP), and the police. As a Social Secretary, you will have a varied, challenging, and very rewarding assignment. You need to be skilled at creating safety and work alliances with those you meet, so that families feel we live our vision. You have colleagues who step up to help and an outpatient care team that we work closely with throughout the entire process.

Qualifications:

• A degree in Social Work or other relevant higher education of at least 180 credits, approved by the National Board of Health and Welfare's eligibility requirements.
• Good knowledge of relevant legislation and social services guidelines
• Good ability to express yourself clearly in speech and writing in Swedish
• Category B driver's license for manual transmission

Merits:

• Previous experience working with Signs of Safety and BBIC.
• Experience with authority exercises within social child and youth care is a plus.
• Training in iRiSk

Personal qualities:

It is important that you are structured and can plan your work independently. At the same time, you need to be accustomed to being able to switch quickly and reprioritize when changed circumstances require it. You make correct assessments and make well-motivated and legally secure decisions, even in acute situations. In your role, you meet children, young people, and families in crisis, and therefore you need to be able to remain calm and professional even in stressful and challenging situations.

Great importance is attached to personal suitability.

About the workplace:

The unit consists of three target group-oriented teams. Each team is led by a Senior Social Secretary who supports professional practice, and the unit also includes an SSPF coordinator, a specialist social worker, and a placement coordinator as expert resources. We strive for close collaboration with all units within the administration and work together for a social service where it should be easy to come to us and get help. We continuously work with method development and competence-enhancing measures, and currently, there is active work underway to implement the "Signs of Safety" approach.

Here, employees are given the opportunity to develop areas of responsibility, as we believe that participation and responsibility mean that we develop our unit together, and we see that you have an important role in this work.

You will be surrounded by competent and engaged employees in an operation where no day is like the other, but job satisfaction is high. You are offered competence-enhancing training, external supervision, staff club membership, and flexible working hours.

More information about Karlshamn Municipality as an employer:

https://www.karlshamn.se/jobb-och-foretagande/jobba-hos-oss/kommunen-som-arbetsgivare/ (https://www.karlshamn.se/jobb-och-foretagande/jobba-hos-oss/kommunen-som-arbetsgivare/)

Information about the position:

• Employment type: Permanent
• Scope: Full-time
• Start date: By agreement
• Application deadline: 2026-07-31, interviews will be held on a rolling basis.

Other:

• Working hours are during weekdays daytime, with the possibility of flexible working hours and holiday exchange
• As an employer, we need to check the right to work in Sweden, therefore you need to show an ID document proving citizenship at any potential interview: a passport or national ID card are examples of such documents.
• An extract from the criminal record is required at any potential interview. Order your extract first if you are called for an interview. The extract to be presented is: Register extract for work with children - https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/barn-annan-verksamhet/ (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/barn-annan-verksamhet/)

For more information about the position, contact:

Hawazen Saghir, Unit Manager, tel. 0454-817 19 (until 10/7).

Then Helen Ahlberg, tel. 0454-5634 08 from and including 20/7.

Union representatives can be reached via email:

– Vision: Julia Solokof: [Email address protected] (mailto:[email protected])

– Akademikerförbundet SSR: [Email address protected] (mailto:[email protected])

Please visit https://www.karlshamn.se/rekrytering (https://www.karlshamn.se/rekrytering) to get information about starting salaries and provisions regarding the current collective agreement, as well as what applies to you if you have protected personal data, how we check the right to work in Sweden, when you need it, and how you order an extract from the criminal record.

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to apply via the button in the advertisement. An application to Karlshamn Municipality is a public document.