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Vivant Care Safe Children

Vivant Care is currently seeking 5 therapeutic families and/or emergency foster homes for placement assignments under Safe Children. Assignments are offered in connection with the placement of children.

The compensation consists of a fee and expense reimbursement. The compensation is determined by the responsible social services authority prior to each assignment and is based on the child's needs and the scope of the assignment. Compensation is paid for the duration of the assignment.

About the Operation

Safe Children is a family and emergency foster home operation that receives placements of children who, for various reasons, need to be placed in foster homes. The children's needs can vary in scope, ranging from minor issues to significant needs for interventions.

Safe Children is the first foster care operation in Sweden where every placed child is assigned a child advocate. The child advocate's main task is to ensure the quality of foster care, prevent malpractices, ensure the child's participation in their own care, and prevent breakdowns in placements.

The operation has specialist competence in attachment theory, narcissistic abuse, dissociation, substance abuse, the Support and Service Act (LSS), and criminality.

All foster homes and emergency foster homes within the operation are offered continuous education, supervision, and respite care. Each individual foster home is assigned a specific contact person in the form of a foster home consultant for ongoing support.

About the Assignment

The assignment becomes active when a child is placed from social services. If there is a need for an adult to be home full-time, there may be an opportunity for compensation for lost income. If compensation becomes relevant, and with approval from social services, the compensation will consist of loss of income. In other cases, it is fully possible to continue working through your regular employment. This depends on the nature and complexity of the assignment and is done in consultation with the operation.

The operation is in great need of being able to offer foster homes for the requests it receives on a daily basis. Upon completion of the recruitment process, we would like you to be ready to accept an assignment immediately. For this reason, the recruitment is not aimed at building a candidate database or similar.

Tasks within the Assignment

As a foster home or emergency foster home, you are responsible for:

• Offering the child a safe, stable, and loving home environment.
• Meeting the child's daily care, schooling, and contacts with healthcare and other services.
• Collaborating with the operations manager, social services, child advocate, custodians, and other actors.
• Being part of a team with other foster homes where experiences are shared.

Foster Homes

Foster homes receive children for shorter or longer periods. You have the opportunity, in dialogue with the operation, to influence which target group, age, and case complexity you receive. There are different types of foster homes, and the categorization is based on the interventions the child is in need of.

For example, a foster home can mean an assignment that does not differ from a typical nuclear family, but also a therapeutic family that involves more extensive intervention treatment.

Emergency Foster Homes

Emergency foster homes receive children who initially need to be placed for a shorter period, typically ranging from a few weeks up to half a year. It is often a requirement that you can be home initially during the placement. If you have a job, you will be compensated for lost income for the relevant period. A driver's license and a separate room for the placed child are requirements.

Qualifications

We welcome all types of family constellations, such as single parents, couples, parent and adult child, and families with or without their own children.

Requirements:

• At least 23 years old.
• The child must be offered a separate room.
• Extracts from the criminal record register, suspicion register, social register, LOB register, as well as registers from the Swedish Social Insurance Agency and the Swedish Enforcement Authority.
• For emergency foster home assignments: driver's license and the ability to be home full-time initially.

Personal qualities that are highly valued are security, emotional availability, teamwork skills, self-reflection, and commitment.

Previous experience in foster care assignments is not a requirement – education and supervision are offered continuously.

Previous education in nursing or social work is also meritorious, for example: social work education, teacher education, certified therapist education, or psychologist or medical doctor education.

Courses in relevant areas, such as low-arousal approach or trauma-informed care, are also meritorious.

If you have been a foster home previously, this is also meritorious.

Conditions for the Assignment

• Assignment type: Foster home or emergency foster home.
• Scope: Varies depending on the complexity of the placement.
• Compensation: According to agreement.
• Number of positions: 5.

Contact

If you have questions about the employment, you are welcome to contact: [email protected]