Application: Parent/Family Support Worker for Platform Lerum

Lerum Municipality is known for its scenic locations with lakes and forests. The municipality has 3,200 employees and 43,000 inhabitants but expects significant growth in the coming years. Lerum is located just a 20-minute drive from Gothenburg and is currently facing a period of intense development with many exciting projects underway, ranging from schools to housing. The municipality works to ensure both good service, high welfare, and a thriving business climate.

Dagens Samhälle named Lerum the winner in the category of large municipalities (2025) - an award based on a comprehensive comparison of 290 Swedish municipalities in areas such as education, healthcare and social care, economy, culture and leisure, attractiveness, business, and future factors such as digitalization and civil preparedness. Lerum is, in other words, a Super Municipality!

Over six years ago, Lerum Municipality established a joint organization in collaboration between the Support and Care Sector and the Education Sector – Platform Lerum. The unit is tasked with contributing to the development of the municipality's work with early interventions and strengthening social sustainability through promotion and preventive measures for children, young people, and families.

With the goal of promoting increased health and completed studies, Platform Lerum works in close collaboration with preschools, schools, social services, and healthcare to create coordinated support for children, young people, and their families.

Within the unit, there are family centers, field secretaries, Attendance Teams, parent/family support workers, and SSPF. The unit's interventions are provided without needs assessment. Since some parent support workers will be on leave for studies and other tasks, we are now looking for a parent/family support worker for our parent support team. The position is primarily a fixed-term assignment until 2027-06-30.

1 position.

Job Responsibilities

As a parent/family support worker, you will meet with parents and families who seek support themselves. This means you will meet with parents and families for individual support, both short-term and long-term interventions. It may also involve leading parenting courses and leading SIP (Individual Action Plan) meetings as an independent meeting leader. You will collaborate with other actors, both internally and externally, such as schools, social services, and healthcare. We believe in close collaboration with multiple actors to prevent and promote work for the best interests of the child. You will work both individually and in teams.

Qualifications

You are educated as a social worker or social pedagogue (the 3-year education) or have other higher education that the employer finds equivalent. You should have experience in therapeutic/change work with parents, children, and young people. Meritorious is if you have experience from family-supporting work, if you are trained as a parent group leader, and have advanced education in psychosocial and systemic work, e.g., Network Work, Safety Circle, Family Check Up, FFT (Functional Family Therapy), or Step 1 education. We would like you to have experience with the social services' authority practice.

We place great emphasis on you being responsible, non-hierarchical, and having a good ability to establish collaboration with families, parents, children, young people, and internal/external collaboration partners as well as colleagues. You have an easy time motivating people to change and operate from a systemic and salutogenic approach. You have experience with documentation and a good ability to express yourself in speech and writing.

Great importance will be attached to personal suitability.

Employment Conditions

• Working hours: Daytime, but some evening hours may occur.
• Experience: Required.
• Employment type: Fixed-term assignment (Temporary employment).
• Scope: Full-time.
• Start date: 2026-09-01 or by agreement.
• Fixed-term until: 2027-06-30.

Application

Apply by: 2026-08-09

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