Vacant job

Child and Student Health Services is a department within the Education and Working Life Administration, Region Gotland.

At Child and Student Health Services, we employ school doctors, school nurses, psychologists, counselors, physiotherapists, speech therapists, hearing, vision, speech, and special educators. Our common statutory main task is to support students' development to achieve the school's knowledge and social goals.

Child and Student Health Services is a well-functioning and driven operation that wants to give every employee the opportunity for personal and professional growth by providing a workplace with community, responsiveness, and valuing initiative, engagement, and responsibility.

The psychology group consists of eleven psychologists led by a unit manager, who is also a psychologist. We share an office space in Visby. We contribute psychological competence in preschools, primary schools, upper secondary schools, adapted school forms, as well as to individuals surrounding the children placed in foster care within Skolfam. Our workplace is characterized by a climate where we share experiences and knowledge and jointly drive development within the operation. We believe in competence development and have therefore invested in both internal and external supervision as well as training initiatives for the entire psychology group.

We offer 38.75 hours/week, flexible hours, health care during working hours, and a fitness allowance. Additionally, regular joint health and well-being activities are held within the department.

We are now looking for an employee for this permanent position.

Your responsibilities

Skolfam is a preventive measure aimed at strengthening the school results of children placed in foster care. The model's basic principles consist of preventive work, cross-professional collaboration, and measurability. The operation is conducted in collaboration with the Individual and Family Care, Social Services Administration. We work according to the nationally developed model (http://www.skolfam.se/). Skolfam is a research-based and preventive working model where social services, schools, and foster homes collaborate with a focus on supporting school results for children in foster care. Together with a special educator, the child's social worker, and the foster home social worker, you form a team - the Skolfam team. Together, the team maps out the conditions for the child's school performance and continuously follows up on the child's development in school until the child completes compulsory school.

You will work based on Skolfam's manual and conduct mappings using standardized psychometric tests and ratings, reporting these to the child, foster home, and school. Based on the results of the mappings conducted by you and Skolfam's special educator, the foundation for the continued work is laid through a so-called Skolfam plan. Based on the child's individual Skolfam plan, you will participate in and lead network meetings where foster homes, social services, and schools collaborate to optimize the child's conditions for upper secondary school eligibility.

Since some of the children placed in foster care live on the mainland, the position involves some travel with overnight stays.

Who are you?

We are looking for you who are a licensed psychologist. A category B driver's license and access to a personal car are required for the position.

Meritorious is if you have worked in schools as, for example, a school psychologist previously, as well as if you have experience with the tasks to be performed and basic knowledge of Trauma-Informed Care (TIC).

As a person, you are solution-focused, proactive, independent, and possess good planning skills, both overall and at the individual level. You thrive working in (several) small teams, have good cooperation skills, and can, when necessary, take an operational and leading role.

Great importance will be attached to personal suitability.

Why choose Region Gotland?

We are the island's largest employer – with over 200 different professions and 7,000 employees in Sweden's only combined region and municipality. Together, we are developing a sustainable, safe, and thriving Gotland for everyone who lives on and visits the island.

On Gotland, there is a rich cultural life, magnificent nature, and a creative entrepreneurial spirit. Over 61,000 people have chosen to call Gotland their home, year-round. Are you not one of us yet, but curious to become? Read more about life on the island at www.gotland.com/flytta-hit

We value our employees and are proud of our benefits. Please read more at www.gotland.se/formaner

On the Instagram account @viarregiongotland, you can follow our employees and see the breadth of our different operations.

How we recruit

We work according to a competency-based recruitment method and therefore place great emphasis on personal suitability in accordance with the competencies described in the advertisement. In this way, we also actively work to counteract discrimination.

We are keen on security and quality in our recruitments, and you may therefore be subject to checks prior to employment. If relevant, you will receive more information from the recruiter. ID documents and a certificate of good conduct must always be presented.

The position will be filled provided it does not need to be offered to employees with preferential rights.