Family Therapist

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Do you want to work in a small municipality with big opportunities? Warm welcome to us in Munkedals Municipality! Munkedals Municipality is located in northern Bohuslän between Oslo and Gothenburg. Here forest, river, and sea meet, and distances are short between people and results. With us, you work closely with both colleagues and operations, with the opportunity to influence and make a difference in everyday life. We build on what is already strong and develop what makes people want to live, live, and thrive here. Development is created through interaction between residents, businesses, associations, and the municipality. This means that as an employee, you drive change together with others. We work with people's well-being in focus and to ensure that Munkedals Municipality is a place to enjoy and want to recommend. The Welfare Administration's task is to help people who, due to age, disability, financial or family problems, need various forms of support and help. The Welfare Administration consists of departments for care and support, as well as IFO (individual and family care). The care and support department consists of units within elderly care facilities, home services, municipal primary care, and LSS. The IFO department consists of social services, employment unit, social psychiatry, and assistance unit. Would you also like to become a valuable member of our team? Right now we are looking for someone who wants to become our new family therapist. Within individual and family care, we are now seeking a family therapist. Our family therapist team consists of six employees and we work on behalf of our investigating social secretaries, as well as with interventions without needs assessment. As a family therapist in Munkedal, you have access to close method support from the operational unit manager. You work in close collaboration with all functions in IFO's operations, which is facilitated by us being located in shared premises. We also collaborate with preschools, schools, BUP, police, and other societal actors. We look forward to your participation and contribution in both internal and external collaboration. Job Description Family therapists work with children and their families in individually designed family therapy in the home. Assignments are given by investigating social secretaries and can be assigned both during investigation and after completed investigation, as a needs-assessed support service. We also offer the opportunity for conversations as an intervention for families without needs assessment for a limited time. The work requires close collaboration with investigators, with the family in focus. As a family therapist, you may also receive assignments from children's secretaries who work with placed children. This can involve support in contact with biological parents or support for young adults who, after foster care placement, are transitioning into adulthood. In this family therapist position, 40% of working time is allocated to the Family Center, where the function is to be the social services representative in the Open Preschool together with a preschool teacher. At the Family Center, the assignment includes identifying parents who may need support in various forms based on social services' mission to work with early interventions without needs assessment. Qualifications We are looking for someone who has a degree as a social worker or social pedagogue, or alternatively has other educational background that the employer considers equivalent. can express yourself well in Swedish, both orally and in writing. has a B-driver's license, as we are a sparsely populated municipality with several communities outside the municipality center. has experience working as a family therapist (meritorious). has knowledge of evidence-based methods in social work (meritorious). Your personal qualities are important to us and we will place great emphasis on them. We value that you are secure and stable in your professional role with the ability to structure and take responsibility for your work. You need to have good collaboration skills, respectful conduct, and a humble approach to those you meet in your daily work. Similarly, you have the ability to analyze and structure information, see connections, and demonstrate good judgment in actions and decisions even in complex situations. What We Offer You We work continuously for a good working environment within IFO and see education through skills initiatives, external process supervision, and internal method supervision as important parts for our employees to thrive and develop. We make use of each other's varied competencies and also develop operations across group boundaries. For us, balance in life is important and we have the pleasure of having a reasonable workload and offering flexible working hours. Our employees' health is important to us, both at and outside work, so we offer, among other things, a generous wellness allowance, discounts on gym memberships, and access to the training facility Styrkan. We Want to Inform You If necessary, the work, depending on the nature of the assignment, may involve some duty outside regular working hours. You must provide an extract from the criminal record before employment. Trial employment may be applied. We will invite interviews first after the application deadline has passed on 2026-08-02. To be considered for employment, you must at the interview: show valid ID if necessary, present a copy of your grades/diploma have the right to work in Sweden and can present a valid work permit if necessary, present a valid driver's license For certain appointments: security vetting is performed. If you become eligible for such a position, approved security vetting is required. check against IVO's register is performed. you need to be a Swedish citizen, but may have a foreign background. We value the qualities that diversity and equal gender distribution bring to the organization, and therefore welcome applicants with different backgrounds and life experience for the position. Warm welcome with your application - we look forward to hearing from you! We politely but firmly decline direct contact with staffing and recruitment companies as well as sellers of additional job ads.Do you want to work in a small municipality with big opportunities? Warm welcome to us in Munkedals Municipality! Munkedals Municipality is located in northern Bohuslän between Oslo and Gothenburg. Here forest, river, and sea meet, and distances are short between people and results. With us, you work closely with both colleagues and operations, with the opportunity to influence and make a difference in everyday life. We build on what is already strong and develop what makes people want to live, live, and thrive here. Development is created through interaction between residents, businesses,…

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active

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City

Munkedal

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Centrumtorget 5

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58.466318500561, 11.672826686588copyopen in

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Published

3. 7. 2026

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31. 7. 2026

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