Vacant job

About the role and your responsibilities

As a field assistant, you work proactively and relationally with children and young people aged 10–25. The work is based on voluntariness, trust, and respect for the young people's own experiences, needs, and life situations.

In this role, you will among other things:

• Conduct proactive outreach work in young people's environments during day, evening, and weekend hours.
• Build and maintain trusting relationships with young people.
• Offer supportive, coaching, and motivational conversations.
• Identify needs, risk factors, and protective factors in individuals and groups.
• Plan, implement, and follow up on group activities and preventive measures.
• Collaborate with schools, social services, police, leisure activities, associations, and guardians.
• Participate in the municipality's safety and prevention work.
• Document, analyze, and follow up on the results of the activities.
• Contribute knowledge about young people's living conditions and current trends in youth environments.

The work is characterized by great variation and requires both independence and close collaboration with colleagues and other stakeholders.

We are looking for you

We are looking for someone who has:

• Post-secondary education in social work, social pedagogy, behavioral science, sociology, or other education deemed equivalent by the employer.
• Experience working with children and young people.
• Knowledge of young people's living conditions, social development, and preventive work.
• Good ability to build relationships and establish trust.
• Ability to work structured with documentation and follow-up.
• Good collaboration skills and experience working with various stakeholders.
• Good verbal and written communication skills in Swedish.

Qualifications

It is meritorious if you have experience with:

• Social field work or other proactive activities.
• Work with young people at risk.
• Motivational Interviewing (MI).
• Group processes and group activities.
• Conflict management and mediation.
• Crime prevention or safety-enhancing work.
• Collaboration between municipal activities and civil society.
• Documentation, analysis, and evaluation of social interventions.
• Digital proactive work.

Personal qualities

To succeed in this role, we believe you are:

• Relational and communicative.
• Receptive and empathetic.
• Self-assured and professional in your approach.
• Proactive and responsible.
• Flexible and solution-oriented.
• Reflective and analytical.
• Committed to issues concerning children's and young people's rights and opportunities.

You share our belief that young people are competent individuals with resources and the ability to influence their own development and their surroundings.

We offer you

A meaningful job where you make a difference for young people every day. Competent and engaged colleagues. Opportunities for supervision and competence development. A development-oriented work climate where learning and collaboration are in focus. A workplace that values innovation, participation, and quality.

As an employee with us, you are offered a range of benefits focusing on balance, security, and health. Lund Municipality is a large organization with many exciting activities and opportunities for employee development. As an employee, you also have access to our benefits portal where you can easily view and manage your benefits.

About the workplace

The Field Group Lund is part of the Culture and Leisure Administration's work to promote good upbringing conditions for young people. Through proactive, preventive, and relational work, we meet young people where they are – in public spaces, at schools, youth meeting places, at events, and in digital contexts.

Our mission is to strengthen protective factors, prevent risky behavior, and contribute to young people having access to supportive adults, meaningful contexts, and positive development opportunities.

We are now looking for an engaged field assistant who wants to develop preventive work together with us.

The Culture and Leisure Administration's approximately 370 employees work to create opportunities for everyone in Lund Municipality to engage in activities, experience, express themselves, develop, and socialize. This has intrinsic value while also creating added value such as quality of life, education, community, safety, and a democratic society. Lund Municipality's culture and leisure life should be characterized by participation, influence, and co-creation. It should be accessible to everyone regardless of background and prerequisites and be long-term sustainable, meaning meeting today's needs without jeopardizing future generations' opportunities to meet theirs.

Here you have room to grow. Within Lund Municipality, we put knowledge at the center and create opportunities to develop in working life. We offer an inclusive work environment and a chance to influence and make a difference. Do you want to become one of us?