Staff Member for Coordination and Counseling in Intimate Partner Violence

Surahammar Municipality is a community in change. Here we have proximity to both rural areas and the big city. Here lies the drive to grow, change, and develop. That is why it is so exciting to work here. With us, you become part of a flat hierarchy culture where we help each other and take advantage of each other's knowledge, differences, and experiences. The work is often varied, sometimes challenging, and always meaningful. Welcome here!

The Individual and Family Care department consists of the IFO Director, unit managers, and teams within adult services, child/youth/family, social assistance, social services, foster homes, family law, intimate partner violence, integration, and municipal psychiatry.

With us, you will be part of a team of skilled, engaged, and proud colleagues where everyone gets to contribute to the goal and actively share and develop knowledge together.

We ensure together that we have an even and good distribution of our tasks and that our working environment is good, as we work here towards common goals. You will have a challenging and rewarding job where you get to make a difference in people's daily lives.

Benefits

The benefit of working within Individual and Family Care is that you get individual competence development, wellness benefits, the possibility of a free parking space, proximity to the train and bus station which is a stone's throw from the social services office, and of course fantastic colleagues.

Job Description

We are now looking for an engaged and competent employee who will work with counseling in the area of intimate partner violence and have overall responsibility for the municipality's work on IPV. The position also includes preventive and outreach work, both towards victims of violence, perpetrators, and other socially vulnerable groups in the municipality. The assignment also includes being part of the municipality's crisis support group.

In the role, you will:

• Work with counseling and support measures for people exposed to intimate partner violence, and if necessary, also for perpetrators.
• Have coordinating and overall responsibility for the municipality's work on IPV.
• Develop, coordinate, and follow up on routines, guidelines, working methods, and collaboration in the area.
• Work preventively and outreach, both internally and externally.
• Conduct outreach activities towards socially vulnerable groups in the municipality.
• Collaborate with other activities within the municipality as well as with external actors such as the region, police, civil society, and other authorities.
• Contribute to competence-enhancing measures, information, and education in the area of intimate partner violence.
• Be part of the municipality's crisis support group and in serious incidents provide psychosocial support to those affected and their relatives, as well as contribute to ensuring continued contact with relevant support measures.

Qualifications and Merits

We are looking for you who have:

• A degree in Social Work, Social Care, or equivalent academic education assessed by the employer as equivalent.
• Documented experience of working with counseling within intimate partner violence.
• Good ability to put yourself in other people's situations and can meet each individual person where they are.
• Ability to express yourself well in Swedish, both orally and in writing.

Merits:

• Further education in counseling methods, for example CBT, trauma-informed care, or similar.
• Experience of coordination or development work previously.
• Experience of outreach and preventive social work.
• Experience of working in collaboration with several actors.
• Experience with the documentation system Lifecare.

To thrive in this role, you need to view a day characterized by variation and challenges positively. Based on our municipality size, we work closely together, and we hope that you, just like us, are a driven team player with an attentive attitude and a strong sense of responsibility. That you are secure, empathetic, and professional in the meeting with people in vulnerable situations. You should be comfortable working both strategically and operationally.

We place great emphasis on personal suitability. A driver's license is a requirement as driving is included in the authority's tasks.

Employment Terms

Employment Type: Permanent.
Duration: Permanent, start date: According to agreement, recruitment is ongoing, and the position may be filled before the application period ends. Probation period may apply.

Do you want to help shape an entire society with us? We look forward to your application!

We offer competence development, wellness benefits, and the possibility of holiday exchange.

Before you can be employed, you need to show a clean extract from the police criminal record, which is no more than 6 months old.

In connection with the interview, you need to prove your citizenship. You can do this with a passport or alternatively a certificate of residence together with an ID document. If you are not a citizen of Sweden, the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, you must show 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.

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