Social Secretary for the Child and Family Unit in Tomelilla Municipality

In Österlen, we create the conditions for a high quality of life, where Tomelilla Municipality is a place for inspiration and development. The municipality has approximately 800 employees, and we offer you excellent opportunities for professional development, participation through trust, and the possibility to balance work and leisure.

We are currently on a development journey focused on streamlining and improving our services. Our ambition is to be a leader in leveraging the opportunities provided by digitalization. In short – we want to make life easy for everyone who lives, works, or visits Tomelilla Municipality.

A warm and positive work environment

The Child and Family Unit consists of a Senior Social Secretary, a reception team, an investigation group, a family care group (comprising two child secretaries and two foster care secretaries), and administrative support. The unit is led by a Unit Manager. Within the work group, there is a warm and positive atmosphere where we care for each other and collaborate closely in our daily work. We support each other in challenging situations, help one another with difficult assessments, and view differences in experience and background as a strength. Together, we create a secure and developmental work environment where participation and community are self-evident values.

Trust and the best interests of the child

At our workplace, a trust-based approach is the foundation of everything we do. We are convinced that this way of working creates conditions for a positive work climate, increased motivation and engagement, greater flexibility and innovative capacity, as well as reduced micromanagement and bureaucracy. Our guiding principles in daily work are the best interests of the child, trust, openness, and a holistic perspective.

What we offer

If you join us, you will become part of an engaged and supportive team with fantastic colleagues. We offer you meaningful, varied, and developmental work where you have the opportunity to grow in your role. Here, you will receive a good introduction, continuous competence development, a wellness benefit, a benefit ticket for Skånetrafiken (regional transport), flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote work to some extent.

Welcome to a workplace where collaboration, trust, and the best interests of the child are in focus.

– Vjollca, Unit Manager

Responsibilities

Support and Care in Tomelilla Municipality is seeking an engaged Social Secretary for the Child and Family Authority Unit.

As a Social Secretary, you are responsible for conducting investigations according to the Social Services Act (SoL) and the Care of Young Persons Act (LVU), focusing on children and young people aged 0–21. You approve and follow up on support and treatment measures aimed at creating secure and developmental environments for each child.

In acute situations, you must be able to make quick and well-founded assessments and decisions, with the child's safety and security as your primary guiding star. The work requires a high degree of independence within the framework of current legislation, guidelines, and proven experience.

You collaborate closely with the child's network and key actors such as preschools, schools, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (BUP), police, and other partners. Good treatment, trust, and a holistic view are central parts of our operations, as is ensuring that every decision and measure is shaped with the child's best interests in focus.

Through your assignment, you contribute to an operation characterized by high professionalism, trust, and respectful treatment, where every child is met with sensitivity, participation, and security.

You will become part of a competent and supportive team. In your daily work, you will receive guidance from both the Unit Manager and the Senior Social Secretary, who, together with you and your colleagues, drive the development of methods within the operation. You are also offered external supervision to strengthen your professional development.

Qualifications and Merits

We are looking for you who are an experienced social worker and have:

• A degree in Social Work (Social Worker/Socionom).
• Experience in investigative work within social services.
• Good knowledge of legislation within SoL and LVU.
• Good ability to express yourself in Swedish, both orally and in writing.
• Good collaboration skills and are also a good communicator.
• A valid Category B driver's license is required.

To thrive in our investigation group, you need to be flexible, non-hierarchical, and have the ability to maintain a realistic and solution-focused perspective in the situations that arise in daily work as a public authority.

We would like you to be a stable and secure person with good self-awareness and professional integrity. You are sensitive to the needs of children and families and have a good ability to build trusting relationships even in vulnerable and complex life situations.

You plan, organize, and prioritize your work in a structured manner. You enjoy collaboration and actively contribute to a good work climate.

As a person, you are development-oriented and reflective, and you possess good analytical skills – qualities that contribute to both legally secure decisions and the continuous improvement of the operation.

It is an advantage if you have:

• Experience in public authority work within child and family services based on BBIC.
• Experience working with domestic violence.
• Training in MI (Motivational Interviewing), Freda, Patriark, Signs of Safety.
• Knowledge of other languages.

About the Employment

Employment type: Permanent position.
Duration: Permanent. Start date: According to agreement.

Tomelilla Municipality has smoke-free working hours.

Employees are sought subject to the condition that the position does not need to be taken by already employed staff or persons with priority rights.

To ensure quality in the recruitment process and enable good communication with our applicants, applications must be submitted digitally via Visma Recruit and not via email or paper format. If you have protected personal data, you should not apply via Visma Recruit, but contact HR Recruitment via the switchboard at 0417-18 000.

In preparation for the recruitment work, Tomelilla Municipality has taken a stance on desirable recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore expressly decline contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar services.