Do you want to help make Gävle even better together with us? At Gävle Municipality, we work with dedication to offer our residents a safe and inspiring environment. We offer you a workplace built on trust where you can develop in your work and grow as a person. Welcome with your application!
1 position(s).
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Do you want to be part of a dynamic and innovative operational area? Are you motivated by leading and inspiring others? Great, then you might be the Senior Social Worker we're looking for.
You will be part of a work team consisting of a unit manager, 24 social workers, four senior social workers, one social assistant, and three administrators. The unit is divided into four teams that work together on the unit's mission and goals. The target group is children aged 13-17 years and their families.
The unit's mission is to assess children's need for protection and/or support according to the Social Services Act and LVU legislation and LuL. The unit also conducts preliminary assessments when concerns or applications are received in ongoing cases and follows up on interventions. As a senior social worker, you have a central role in the organization by leading and distributing tasks to the social workers and in close cooperation with the unit manager and other team leaders based on the unit's needs.
Youth Assessment Unit operates with close management, meaning high availability, trust, and responsibility based on function and delegation. From autumn 2026, as a senior social worker, you will receive group supervision through an external supervisor together with senior social workers within Välfärd Gävle. This is to support a good and stimulating work environment that strengthens the possibilities for close management.
Your responsibilities include:
• Lead through close management in individual cases and for a good work environment.
• Delegate tasks and provide advice, support, and opportunities for colleagues' development.
• Ensure that case handling and documentation maintain good quality.
• Be responsible for case reviews, case distribution, and planning operations based on the unit's needs.
• Provide support and guidance in complex cases.
• Introduce new employees to the workplace and guide social workers in their professional role.
• When necessary, handle cases and represent the unit in court.
• Work to ensure competence and quality in operations, such as contributing to method development, environmental monitoring, and work with procedures.
• Work closely with the unit manager and other senior social workers in the unit's management group and collaborate based on the unit's operational plans and action plans.
• Act as deputy unit manager.
Interviews will be held on-site during week 34.
We warmly welcome your application!
QUALIFICATIONS
We are looking for someone who has:
• A degree in social work, 210 credits, or equivalent in older systems
• A category B driver's license and driving experience.
• At least 4 years of work experience in public authority work with the current target group, children aged 13-17 years and their families.
It is meritorious if you have previous experience in management.
You need to have a good ability to create and maintain trusting relationships, both with those we meet and in relation to the work team and other partners. To be able to handle the different situations that can arise in the work, you also need to be flexible, solution-focused, and enjoy collaborating across organizational boundaries with the client's needs in focus. You are secure as a person and feel comfortable making independent decisions based on applicable legislation, while also needing to be responsive to the work team's need for support and development. We will therefore place great emphasis on personal suitability.
For this position, an extract from the police criminal record is required. This will only be requested from the final candidate in the last step of the recruitment process.
Employment type: Permanent employment.
Duration: Indefinite.
Working hours: Daytime.
We offer you
You are important to us! As an employee in Gävle Municipality, you have
• generous vacation benefits and as a new employee you also have the right to paid vacation during your first year of employment
• reimbursement for wellness and exercise when you have been employed for more than three months
• several different insurance options through our collective agreements, for example sick leave insurance and occupational injury insurance are included.
Read more about our benefits here: https://www.gavle.se/jobba-hos-oss/upptack-vara-formaner-for-trygghet-och-balans/
Our values
Quality, respect, and collaboration are the most important success factors for fulfilling our mission in the best way possible. To do the right things and act wisely in our daily work, it is important that we base our actions on our shared values.
Read more about us as an employer and what it's like to work in Gävle Municipality here:
https://www.gavle.se/jobba-hos-oss/
Here you can read more about our organization:
https://www.gavle.se/kommun-och-politik/kommunens-organisation/
Gävle Municipality belongs to the Finnish administrative area. If you, in addition to our other competency requirements, also speak Finnish, that can be a merit.Do you want to help make Gävle even better together with us? At Gävle Municipality, we work with dedication to offer our residents a safe and inspiring environment. We offer you a workplace built on trust where you can develop in your work and grow as a person. Welcome with your application!
1 position(s).
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Do you want to be part of a dynamic and innovative operational area? Are you motivated by leading and inspiring others? Great, then you might be the Senior Social Worker we're looking for.
You will be part of a work team consisting of a unit manager, 24 social…