Do you want to help us make Gävle even better? At Gävle Municipality, we work with commitment together to provide our residents with a safe and inspiring environment. We offer you a workplace of trust where you can develop in your work and grow as a person. Welcome with your application!
5 position(s).
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Do you want to work professionally, with legal security, and at the same time close to children and young people?
Family Foster Care Unit Administration in Gävle is seeking five committed child welfare secretaries who want to make a real difference.
With us, structure and quality are combined with warmth and dedication. Our starting point is simple but crucial—every child should grow up in a safe and loving environment. Through professional and long-term work, we create the conditions for stability, development, and hope for the future for children and young people in foster care.
You will be part of a team consisting of a unit manager, three senior case workers, and 17 child welfare secretaries, along with our administrative support. Our workplace is centrally located in Gävle. We work closely with Family Foster Care Unit, Support.
As a new employee, you will have access to a mentor and individual introduction with internal supervision.
Your responsibilities include:
• Responsibility for administrative authority under the Social Services Act and Compulsory Care of Young Persons Act.
• Document, investigate, and make decisions in accordance with applicable legislation.
• Follow up on the child's development and care during placement.
• Conduct regular individual conversations with the child.
• Ensure the child's participation and make the child's voice heard.
• Collaborate with guardians, foster families, schools, and other networks.
• Monitor and follow up on the child's health, schooling, and social situation.
• Make regular visits to see placed children in foster homes.
The position means that you will be responsible as a child welfare secretary for children and young people in foster care. You are responsible for follow-up and lawful administrative authority, while building trusting relationships and ensuring that the child's needs, rights, and participation are at the center throughout the process. The position involves some travel.
QUALIFICATIONS
You are a confident and dedicated child welfare secretary who always puts the child's best interests in focus. You enjoy working long-term and see the value in building sustainable relationships over time with both the children and their networks. By investing time and care in each contact, you can follow the children's development, see their progress, and truly reap the rewards of your work. For you, the child welfare secretary role is not just about making decisions, but about being there, creating security, and making a real difference in children's lives for many years to come.
To be relevant for the position, you have:
• A degree in Social Work (Socionomexamen).
• Class B driver's license for manual transmission vehicles.
• Driving experience.
Meritorious for the position:
• Experience with follow-up work of children and young people in foster care.
• Experience with longer-term contact in child and youth care.
• Experience with investigations and thorough documentation.
• Training in Signs of Safety and Trauma-Informed Approach.
We are seeking someone who:
• Is organized and has a good ability to prioritize and drive your work forward.
• Works efficiently with a focus on quality and legal security.
• Has an unpretentious and respectful approach to collaboration with others.
• Is flexible and confident in adapting to changing situations.
• Can adapt your communication to the child's age and maturity.
• Enjoys meeting and talking with children and young people and building long-term professional relationships.
In accordance with Gävle Municipality's values, you have good interaction skills, collaborate well with others, and maintain high quality in your work.
Working with foster care is taking responsibility for something greater than yourself—it is a task that requires both professionalism and heart.
Do you want to help create security and hope for the future for children and young people?
For this position, a police conduct certificate is required. This will only be requested from the final candidate in the last step of the recruitment process.
Warmly welcome with your application.
Employment form: Permanent position.
Duration: Indefinite, start date: By agreement.
Working hours: Day shift.
To ensure quality in the recruitment process at Gävle Municipality and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask that you submit your application digitally via Visma Recruit, not by email or paper format. If you have a protected identity, we ask you to contact the recruiting manager; do not submit your application digitally.
Gävle Municipality is part of the Finnish administrative area. If you, in addition to our other competency requirements, also speak Finnish, this may be a merit.
In preparation for the recruitment process, Gävle Municipality has taken a position on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore firmly decline contact from media sales representatives, recruitment websites, and similar services.Do you want to help us make Gävle even better? At Gävle Municipality, we work with commitment together to provide our residents with a safe and inspiring environment. We offer you a workplace of trust where you can develop in your work and grow as a person. Welcome with your application!
5 position(s).
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Do you want to work professionally, with legal security, and at the same time close to children and young people?
Family Foster Care Unit Administration in Gävle is seeking five committed child welfare secretaries who want to make a real difference.
With us, structure…