Are You Our New Parent Advisor?

At Sandviken Municipality, we make each other better. Our culture is characterized by a holistic approach, collaboration, and dialogue, where managers and employees together create value for Sandviken's citizens. When we leverage each other's differences and work toward common goals, we build a sustainable, developing, and successful municipality. Together we make Sandviken Municipality better! Are you curious to read more about Sandviken Municipality, our benefits, and what it's like to work with us? Please visit our pages: https://sandviken.se/arbete-och-karriar Are you inspired by challenges and want to help shape new ways of working? Do you want to be part of developing early support and interventions for children and their parents? Then this position might be for you. Right now, an extensive development effort is underway to strengthen living conditions for children and young people in Sandviken Municipality. With us, you will have excellent opportunities to influence and further develop this work. The initiative aims to strengthen collaboration between guardians, social services, and schools, as well as increase the range of early help and support services for the municipality's residents. As a parent advisor, you will be part of the Individual and Family Care Administration and belong to a work team of 20 people within the Prevention and Early Support unit. In addition to parent advisors, the unit includes field activity coordinators, staff within Lyktan support groups, and specialist social workers. The work involves many different contact points, and you need to be comfortable and thrive working in others' arenas, networking, and creating holistic solutions with other operations. With us at Individual and Family Care in Sandviken Municipality, you have excellent opportunities for professional development and you actively participate in developing the business in accordance with our mission. We have regular group supervision. You also have a good opportunity to influence working hours as the municipality applies annual working hours and offers vacation exchange. 1 position(s). WORK TASKS As a parent advisor, you will primarily work to create trustworthy relationships with children and their guardians. The work tasks include offering support in the form of early parenting strengthening interventions individually and in groups, being available for advice and support to guardians or other close relatives, being a sounding board for school and preschool staff, participating and informing at parent meetings, and having a coordinating, guiding, and linking function between guardians and society's various support functions. You are also a link between social services, family, and school staff when there is a need for concern notifications to social services, with the aim of promoting good cooperation and acting as a gateway to social services' other operations when there is a need for more extensive interventions. Being a parent advisor means you need to be a humble and solution-oriented person who is self-directed and comfortable taking your own initiative and driving help processes. In the role of parent advisor, you will be able to play a decisive role in children's futures. This position will be directed toward preschool operations. QUALIFICATIONS We are looking for you who are not afraid to venture into uncharted territory and who, together with your colleagues, want to shape and develop something new, exciting, and positive for the municipality's children and young people. You are used to driving processes and enjoy doing so in smaller and larger contexts. We are looking for you who are a social worker or have a degree from another higher education that the employer deems equivalent. To carry out the work, you need to have experience in social work with young people and their families from the individual and family care arena. You need to have good knowledge of social services' mission and organization as well as other social systems, in order to function as a sounding board for other professionals and contribute with suggestions for constructive interventions aimed at children and young people. Great weight will be placed on personal maturity and suitability for performing the assignment. For the position, a B driver's license is required. Employment form: Permanent employment. Duration: Indefinite, start date: As soon as possible by agreement. Continuous selection for interviews will take place during the application period, so do not hesitate to submit your application! Want to know what it's like to live, live, and work in Sandviken Municipality? Perhaps you're thinking of moving to Sandviken? We've gathered information specifically for you on our pages: https://sandviken.se/hellosandviken If you have a protected identity, we ask you not to submit your application digitally through our recruitment system. More information on how to proceed instead can be found at www.sandviken.se/ledigajobb

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