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Welcome to Uppsala Youth Outreach!

We are currently looking for a Coordinator who is flexible and has the ability to see opportunities in change. Do you have previous experience working within the social services administration and want to work with coordination, environmental scanning, and preventive measures for children and young people in collaboration? Then this might be the job for you!

Uppsala Youth Outreach is part of the Social Services' Measures for Children and Young People. Our mission is to work with preventive and outreach measures in collaboration with other authorities and actors in society. We are a unit without regulatory authority that works with outreach and crime-preventive work in the field in collaboration with, among others, schools, social services, police, and leisure activities.

The unit consists of several coordinators, field secretaries, and social workers in schools and in the field, as well as counselors. The work is carried out locally in several areas in Uppsala as well as centrally with the coordination of various types of social measures.

Description of duties

Working as a coordinator at Uppsala Youth Outreach primarily involves developing and implementing long-term strategies, creating, anchoring, and following up on action programs. This means having responsibility for the local team's mission in a geographical area in Uppsala within the SSPF collaboration model (school, social services, police, leisure). The coordinator works with young people and their guardians at the individual, group, and area levels.

The coordinator is tasked with leading the smaller team consisting of social workers both in schools and in the field. Together, you work in an outreach, coordinated, and supportive manner. The purpose of the work is to increase the detection of young people at risk of drugs and crime and other socially destructive behaviors through formalized collaboration, motivate lifestyle changes, and minimize the risk of these young people falling through the cracks through structured network work in collaboration. The coordinator acts as the gateway to various supportive functions.

The job also includes:

• Coordinating preventive measures both during the day and evening.
• Participating in incident and risk analyses based on the situational awareness tool EST Embrace.
• Participating in meetings and leading gatherings such as area groups and network meetings.
• Planning, initiating, and carrying out activities.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who have a social work degree or other education that the employer deems relevant for the position. To succeed in the work, you need to have experience working within the social services administration and good knowledge of social work with children and young people. The job requires a valid driver's license (Category B). Good knowledge of Swedish, both written and spoken, is a prerequisite for the position.

It is meritorious with:

• Training in Signs of Safety.
• Training in Systems Theory.
• Good knowledge of multicultural work.

As a person, you are flexible and can quickly adapt when conditions change. You see opportunities in development and maintain a calm, stable, and focused approach in all situations. Furthermore, you are receptive, team-oriented, and have an easy time building trusting relationships with both young people and colleagues. With good communication skills, you express yourself clearly and enthusiastically to both individuals and groups, while listening and adapting to needs. Last but not least, you have a creative and solution-oriented working style, contribute new ideas, and implement them in practice in a way that leads to concrete results.

Information

If you have questions about the position or the recruitment process, contact Uppsala Youth Outreach at 072-593 63 98.

Union representatives:

• Akademikerförbundet SSR, Camilla Ahlsén Hoff, 018-727 24 34
• Vision, Sofia Venemalm, 018-727 12 13

If you have questions regarding the registration of your application, contact the recruitment area: 018-727 68 24.

Uppsala Municipality applies individual and differentiated salary setting according to the current collective agreement.

Employment takes place only after presentation of an extract from the criminal record.

In your application, you must state your citizenship. If you are not a citizen of Sweden, the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, you must also be able to prove that you have a valid work permit or are exempt from the obligation to have a work permit. Employment can only take place after verification of the work permit, which is required according to the Aliens Ordinance.

Employment at Uppsala Municipality may involve being placed on the war establishment.

Details about the position:

• Salary form: Monthly salary

Employment type: Permanent employment

• Duration: Permanent
• Start date: According to agreement