Family Counselor for First Line Social Services

Do you want to make a real difference in people's everyday lives? The Social and Care Administration in Katrineholm Municipality works with support, care, and administrative authority for people in different stages of life. Our mission is broad and spans multiple operations, from elderly care and home healthcare to individual and family services as well as public guardianship. We meet people with different needs, conditions, and life situations. What is common to our work is that we contribute to security, independence, and a dignified life. With us, you become part of an operation that develops and makes a concrete difference for Katrineholm's residents every day. With us, you are offered, among other things: Signs of Safety and access to a coach for reflection, close collaboration and short decision paths, and being part of a competent team with high engagement and work satisfaction. We are a small municipality with great opportunities. Our employees enjoy working here, and we have an active well-being group that organizes everything from activities, celebrations, and everyday joy. Here there is humor, care, and a culture where we help each other both at work and outside of it. Apply today and become part of our solution-focused work with children and young people. 1 position(s). WORK DUTIES Here you have the opportunity to meet children and young people early and contribute to ensuring that the right support is provided before problems grow larger. As a family counselor in our newly formed unit First Line Social Services, you provide interventions without needs assessment (IUB) and contribute to children and young people receiving support at home and in their everyday environments. You become part of a multidisciplinary team with social workers in reception, preventive social workers, SSPF coordinator, field workers, family support workers, and family counselors. Using Signs of Safety as an approach, we help children, young people, and their networks discover and use their resources for positive development. You have the opportunity to contribute to the development of supportive and therapeutic interventions for children, young people, and their parents/networks. You collaborate closely with family counselor colleagues and preventive social workers to provide early support in cases such as school social problems or norm-breaking behavior. We also collaborate with child healthcare centers. The position includes, among other things: • Advice and support conversations individually and in groups • Treatment interventions for children, young people, and guardians • Lead group activities • Documentation responsibility This is a job for you who wants a varied position where you meet people in need of support. The workdays are varied and suit you if you like working flexibly and creatively. You will receive introduction from colleagues and your supervisor, external supervision, and training in Signs of Safety. The work takes place both independently and together with colleagues. We collaborate with the Social and Care Administration's operations and external actors. Evening work occurs. With us, you get to work preventively and relationship-building in a new unit where you can influence both working methods and development. QUALIFICATIONS We are looking for you who have a degree as a social worker or equivalent and have good ability to express yourself well in Swedish in both speech and writing. For the position, we also see that you need to have previous experience with psychosocial change work. Good IT skills are a requirement as well as a category B driver's license since you will be using a car in the position. It is meritorious if you have relevant training in therapeutic methods and motivational interviewing. Furthermore, you have experience working with evidence-based methods. We would like to see that you have previous experience and knowledge in Signs of Safety. It is also meritorious if you have experience working within individual and family services and/or with evidence-based methods. Furthermore, it is meritorious if you have experience with parental support programs such as COPE. We are looking for you who are secure and stable as a person. You have the ability to shift focus with short notice and adjust your planning, as situations can change quickly. In treatment work directed at individuals, you usually work alone, and therefore you need to be self-directed and manage your work independently. We are looking for you who enjoy collaborating with others and are stimulated by outreach and relationship-building work. You have an ability to pay attention to others' perspectives and give everyone space in the group in a way that benefits the whole. We highly value the ability to listen, communicate, and resolve conflicts, as well as the ability to constructively adapt how you communicate depending on the situation and target group. You see and use networks as a natural part of creating and developing relationships with clients and in internal and external collaboration. You take responsibility for your tasks, drive the work forward, and have the ability to make decisions quickly. Salary form: Monthly salary. Employment form: Permanent employment. Duration: Permanent, start date: By agreement. Katrineholm is a municipality where desire is the driving force for creativity and development, for life, learning, and enterprise. Our approximately 3,300 employees make a great difference every day, working together based on our values RED; respect, openness, clarity, and trust to create the best conditions for our residents. Here everything is close, an hour's train journey from Stockholm and two hours from Gothenburg. Read more about us as an employer, our offerings, and career paths here: https://www.katrineholm.se/arbeta-hos-oss/vi-som-arbetsgivare.html The position in question will be filled subject to the necessary decisions being made. According to the Social Services Act, extracts from the police's criminal record register must be presented by persons before they are employed to work at care homes (HVB homes), supported housing, or secure housing. You can order this on the police's website. Katrineholm Municipality applies individual salary setting. All permanent employees are offered a full-time position, and we maintain a smoke-free working time throughout the organization. We use e-recruitment to streamline and quality assure the recruitment process. All your information is saved to your CV account and you can easily log in and update your information whenever you want. Therefore, fill in your information as carefully as possible to provide an accurate picture of yourself. The information is processed and stored according to the Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Warmly welcome with your application! Before the recruitment process, we have taken a position on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore strongly decline contact from media sales representatives, recruitment sites, and similar.

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