Child Services Secretary at the Social Services Administration Southwest

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About the Position Would you like a challenging and rewarding role focused on placed children and their families? Are you a social worker? Then you should apply to work with us! As a child services secretary, you hold government responsibility under the Social Services Act (SoL) and the Care of Young Persons Act (LVU), and you closely monitor the child's or young person's placement. You work with investigations, assessments, and reviews. You naturally also follow up on other interventions for the child, such as school family support, and maintain continuous contact with children and young people in foster care and residential support homes. You work with the child's biological parents and network based on what is best for the placed child. The child services secretary team is a positive group of mixed ages with great commitment to ensuring children and young people get what they need. Our unit consists of 18 employees: 15 child services secretaries, two senior social secretaries, and one unit manager. Management is stable, with extensive experience and high availability for daily support. We value development and make sure to deepen our expertise in various areas, including custody transfers, child conversations, children and young people with special needs, the Western Model, and LÖSA. In our administration and unit, we have invested in close management. For us, it is important to work without pretense, work closely together, and help each other. We believe in participation in development work related to both the field of placed children and new social services legislation. We consider it important to utilize the family's own resources and solutions. We collaborate closely and are co-located with the foster care secretaries. An important part for us is giving placed children and young people participation in their processes, and we apply methods such as taping and LÖSA, as well as through our deepened collaboration with our resource unit. Dialogue, trust, and laughter are integral parts of our daily work. As a new employee, you will receive a good introduction and the opportunity to work together in a good work environment where you receive the support you need to meet our children and their families in a good way. As a child services secretary with us, you work in a team with the foster care secretaries. We have access to an open care unit with broad and good expertise. Since one of our employees is leaving Gothenburg due to relocation and another is going on parental leave, we are now looking for you to join our team. About You We are looking for someone with experience working with placed children, preferably as a child services secretary. You have a degree in social work and may already be working with government authority exercises. As an applicant, you need to have a clear child perspective in your work and base your approach on children's rights. You have knowledge of legislation, the Social Services Act and Care of Young Persons Act, and have knowledge of and work according to BBIC (Children's Needs in Focus). You handle documentation well and express yourself respectfully in speech and writing. A driver's license is a requirement. We consider it meritorious if you have other qualifications that broaden and strengthen our collective expertise. You are calm and composed in pressured and difficult situations. You have a good ability to balance demands and can make well-reasoned decisions even with tight timelines. You take responsibility for both your own and the team's work tasks. You keep the children's best interests in focus and do your best to perform and follow up on your work tasks. You are pleasant and helpful to other people even in stressful situations. You show respect for everyone you meet at work. You plan, organize, and prioritize work efficiently. You ensure that work is completed on time and follow up on results. Does this sound like a job for you? We welcome your application! Other Information In this recruitment process, we will not ask for a personal letter. Instead, during the application process, you will be asked to answer a number of questions about your skills in the requested area. To comply with GDPR requirements and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask that you submit your application digitally and not via email or mail. Do you have protected personal information? If so, do not apply through the system; instead, contact the recruiting manager to handle your application. Gothenburg City is one of Sweden's largest employers. Our mission is to create a good everyday life for Gothenburg's residents, visitors, and entrepreneurs. As an employee of the city, you have secure employment with many career paths where you get the opportunity to take on interesting and meaningful assignments. The intended salary range for the position is 37,000 - 48,000 SEK per month. The salary is based on an overall assessment of your education, experience, and skills you bring to the role. Gothenburg City applies individual and differentiated salary setting. You can find more information about, among other things, salary statistics at: goteborg.se/Work in Gothenburg City/What it's like to work in Gothenburg City/Salary, compensation and benefits. Since we have already made decisions regarding the recruitment channels we wish to use for this recruitment, we kindly but firmly decline to be contacted with additional offers for skills placement, advertising, and recruitment assistance. About Us The Social Services Administration Southwest is one of four social service administrations in Gothenburg City with around 900 employees. In the Southwest city district, approximately 120,000 residents live, and the area extends from Billdal to Högsbohöjd and to the southern archipelago. The administration's mission is to ensure that children, young people, and adults can live secure and independent lives and that children and young people have a rich leisure life. The administration also works to support people experiencing homelessness toward permanent housing. Through cooperation with civil society, local business, and other actors, we aim to increase public health and safety in the area. At the Social Services Administration Southwest, we want to take advantage of the commitment of all employees. With us, you can influence both your own job and others' lives.About the Position Would you like a challenging and rewarding role focused on placed children and their families? Are you a social worker? Then you should apply to work with us! As a child services secretary, you hold government responsibility under the Social Services Act (SoL) and the Care of Young Persons Act (LVU), and you closely monitor the child's or young person's placement. You work with investigations, assessments, and reviews. You naturally also follow up on other interventions for the child, such as school family support, and maintain continuous contact with children and young…

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job

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active

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public

Price

37 000 SEK /month

City

Göteborg

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Göteborgs Stad

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57.705114058146, 11.968068971252copyopen in

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Published

17. 7. 2026

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3. 8. 2026

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