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Vivant Care "Trygga Barn" is seeking 5 Therapeutic Foster Homes and/or Emergency Foster Homes

Vivant Care is currently seeking 5 therapeutic foster homes and/or emergency foster homes for placement assignments within the "Trygga Barn" (Safe Children) program. The assignment is offered in connection with the placement of children.

The compensation consists of a fee and an expense allowance. The compensation is determined by the responsible social services 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

Trygga Barn 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, from minor issues to significant needs for interventions.

Trygga Barn is the first foster care operation in Sweden where all placed children are assigned a child advocate. The child advocate's main task is to ensure the quality of foster care, prevent misconduct, ensure the child's participation in their own care, and prevent placement breakdowns.

The operation has specialist competence in attachment theory, narcissistic abuse, dissociation, substance abuse, LSS (Act on Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments), and crime.

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 dedicated contact person in the form of a foster home consultant for ongoing support.

About the Assignment

The assignment becomes active upon the placement of a child 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, with approval from social services, the compensation will consist of lost 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 the operation receives on a daily basis, and upon completion of the recruitment process, we would be happy if you were immediately ready to accept an assignment. For this reason, the recruitment does not aim to build 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 interventions
• 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 regular 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, anything from a few weeks up to half a year as a rule. It is often a wish that you can be home initially during the placement. If you have a job, you are compensated with 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, for example, 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 Enforcement Authority
• For the emergency foster home assignment: driver's license and possibility to be home full-time initially

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

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

It is also meritorious with previous education in nursing or social work - for example: social work education, teacher education, certified therapist education, or psychology or medical education.

Courses in relevant areas - such as low-affective handling 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]