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Family Home Consultant for Västernorrland/Gävleborg – Make a Difference for Children and Young People

Nytida Foster Care is now looking for a Family Home Consultant for Västernorrland/Gävleborg

Do you want a meaningful job where you combine independence, flexibility, and close collaboration with dedicated colleagues? Then this might be the role for you. Here, you will have the opportunity to develop both professionally and personally while contributing to creating safe and sustainable solutions for children and young people. Our work is guided by Nytida's values: respect, responsibility, simplicity, and knowledge.

About the Role

We are looking for a Family Home Consultant who wants to become part of our growing team in Västernorrland and Gävleborg. You will work together with family home consultants, foster home investigators, placement coordinators, and unit managers in an operation characterized by engagement, quality, and collaboration. The role involves significant personal responsibility, but you will simultaneously have support from experienced colleagues and an organization that values reasonable workload and high quality in the work.

Your Main Responsibilities

• Guide and support foster homes in their assignments.
• Recruit, investigate, and train foster homes.
• Participate in the matching process between foster homes and placement requests.
• Collaborate, document, and report back to the client both in writing and orally.
• Plan and implement training and recruitment efforts for foster homes.

The position involves regular travel, which means a category B driver's license is required.

Who Are We Looking For?

We are looking for you who are educated as a social worker (socionom) or have another equivalent academic education.

To succeed in the role, we believe you:

• Have a genuine commitment to children, young people, and families.
• Are secure, responsible, and accustomed to working independently.
• Have good collaboration skills and contribute to a positive team spirit.
• Are communicative and have an easy time building trusting relationships.
• Have good administrative skills and express yourself well in speech and writing.

Previous experience in foster care, social work, or public administration is an advantage.

Our Values

We are looking for you who share our perspective and want to make a difference by living our values:

Respect – All people have the right to a dignified life and respectful treatment.

Responsibility – We take responsibility for our assignments, our relationships, and our results.

Simplicity – We work closely together and make it easy to influence and contribute.

Knowledge – We develop through learning, reflection, and experience sharing.

What We Offer

• An independent and developing work environment.
• Basic training when you are hired permanently at Nytida, as well as competence development through our own training organization, Lära.
• Present managers and close leadership.
• Collective agreement, occupational pension, fitness allowance, and a benefits portal with discounts and offers.
• A flexible way of working with the possibility of hybrid work and access to our office in Sundsvall.

Other Information Employment type: Permanent with a 6-month probationary period. Salary: We apply individual salary setting. Start date: By agreement. Application deadline: 2026-08-31. Register check: Extract from the criminal record must be presented upon a possible employment. As part of our work environment efforts, random drug tests may occur.

For more information, contact: Anna Kristoffersson, Unit Manager, [email protected], 072-402 20 27, or Pernilla Persson, Placement Coordinator, [email protected], 070-320 11 20. Union contact: Vision, [email protected].

Application You are welcome to apply via the "Send Application" button below. Selection is made on an ongoing basis.

If you are called for an interview, you need to be able to prove that you have the right to work in Sweden, by showing that you have citizenship within the EU/EEA or a valid work permit.

Nytida provides support to children, young people, and adults for all life's needs within disability and psychosocial issues. We offer housing, day activities, support to individuals and families, and school at approximately 400 units throughout the country. We aim to be quality leaders in everything we do, and our vision is to make the world a little better, one person at a time. Our employees work with each person's quality of life and security in focus. Nytida is part of the Ambea group. www.nytida.se