Social Worker/Social Pedagogue for Open Care in Torsås Municipality

Torsås Municipality – a municipality with proximity and quality of life in southern Kalmar County. The municipality, with approx. 7,000 inhabitants, can be described as Sweden in miniature. Here you find the sea, the coast, the beaches, the plains, the lakes, and the forests. The business life is dominated by manufacturing industry but also has great potential within tourism and other areas. Here we can offer a high quality of life with proximity and great security for residents and visitors. Torsås Municipality has five administrations and two wholly-owned companies.

In Torsås Municipality, we dare to find new solutions, think big thoughts, and come up with exciting ideas. To succeed, we work closely together. We collaborate towards a common goal; to give everyone who lives here the best conditions for a good life. That we are close to each other is evident in that we take advantage of each other's strengths. That administrations and operations work close to each other also means that it is never far between employee and manager, which in turn leads to short decision paths and close cooperation.

Torsås Municipality's value base is built on the words Participation, Development, Clarity, and Security. An approach that every employee and elected official shows in daily work and in meeting with citizens and customers.

About the position

Here you will be an important part of the team and together with others within open care, social secretaries, and the Work Life Centre, we work to prevent, meet, and satisfy the assessed needs of the municipality's residents. We do this by always thinking the individual in focus, distributing current information and knowledge between us, coordinating our resources, taking care of each other's perspectives, and having a critical approach in order to seek sustainable opportunities. We work process-oriented and with goals where we also collaborate and take into account the perspectives of all professions.

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Responsibilities

We are looking for you who are skilled at building trusting relationships and who have the courage to both challenge and support to strengthen families and give children the opportunity to grow up in their home environment.

It is important to us to provide support early so that children's and young people's right to good upbringing conditions is promoted, that we meet them on their arena and at times that do not affect their schooling. You will belong to Open Care and a selection of assignments you may encounter are for example:

• Perform needs-assessed interventions such as personal support, contact support, and structured open care.
• Provide support to parents and their children and young people who have been placed outside the home and who are to move or have moved home.
• Provide support to children/young people and their parents at home.
• Perform interventions without needs assessment.

Open Care provides advice and support, promotes conditions for good living conditions, strengthens health-promoting factors for the individual and families, and collaborates with other internal and external parties, e.g., school, youth center, Region, and others within the IFO business area. The work takes place both in and outside the municipality's premises and at the homes of individuals/families. Open Care also has the Social Administration's part in the Family Center. The assignment may involve evening and weekend work so that the individual's assessed needs can be met.

Open Care does not exercise authority; instead, one is helpful with information and motivation so that the individual can apply for the interventions that may be needed.

Qualifications and Merits

Competence requirements: Social worker, social pedagogue, or has a three-year post-secondary education equivalent to university with a focus on behavioral science or other education that the employer assesses as equivalent.

It is meritorious if you have at least five years of work experience working with people and can express yourself well in speech and writing in the Swedish language.

Meritorious if you have experience in some of the following areas:

• Security Circle (Trygghetscirkeln)
• Parental support/courses
• Work with people with co-morbidity, mental illness, norm-breaking behavior, and/or gang crime
• System theory/family therapy
• Knowledge and experience of working with harmful use and addiction
• CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
• Functional Family Therapy (FFT)
• MI (Motivational Interviewing)
• rePULSE
• BBIC and Life Care

For us, it is important that you have engagement, a positive attitude, and a belief that there are opportunities for every individual. You want to provide support and do it in a professional way and can therefore distinguish between facts, own opinions, and feelings, and act consistently. At the same time, you have the ability to adapt to changes and the people you meet. You enjoy working both independently and in close collaboration with others. We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

What we offer

We as employers can offer you:

• Operationally close leadership
• Great opportunities to be part of developing open care
• Collegial learning
• Great opportunity to influence through the business area's process work
• Torsås Municipality's various employee benefits

Employment may take place only after presentation of an extract from the criminal record and suspicion register.

Category B driver's license is a requirement.

Application

Selection will take place continuously and interviews will be conducted during the application period.

Salary form: Monthly salary.
Employment form: Permanent employment.
Duration: Permanent, start: 2026-10-01 Or according to agreement.
Working hours: Daytime. Working hours outside office hours are included if necessary, for example, according to the operation's needs support at home, parent meetings, and parent cafes.

We strive for an even gender distribution and see diversity as a strength and therefore welcome applicants with different backgrounds.

In connection with the recruitment work, we have taken a stand on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore expressly decline contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.

We use e-recruitment to streamline and quality-assure the recruitment work. All your details are saved on your CV account and you can easily log in and update your details when you want. Therefore, fill in your details as carefully as possible to give a fair picture of yourself. The details are processed and stored in accordance with the Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

We warmly welcome your application!