Family Therapist for Support and Treatment Unit

Description:

Are you a confident and relationship-building social worker ready to take on new challenges? The Support and Treatment Unit is now seeking a family therapist specializing in enhanced support for foster families. We warmly welcome your application! The Support and Treatment Unit is part of the Employment, Skills and Welfare Administration. The unit currently has nine family therapists and one family support coordinator, four people in the school social work team, one family counselor, and three curators at the family center. This position is located in family support, where we work with individually tailored support services based on assignments and goals from social services, open services without formal decisions, and group activities for parents and children. Assignments may be rooted in relationship and communication problems within families, difficulties of parents/caregivers in understanding, responding to and guiding their children, or behavioral problems in children and young people. The position also involves offering enhanced support as a time-limited intensive intervention to foster families to strengthen their care capacity and prevent family breakdown. In this position, we offer flexible working hours and the opportunity to work remotely to contribute to a better work-life balance. Other benefits include wellness allowances and access to our engaged staff club that creates community and energy throughout the year. Flexible vacation options are also available. You will work in brand new centrally located premises where we operate on an activity-based basis. 1 position(s). WORK TASKS As a family therapist, you work by building relationships with the families you meet through trust and confidence to create the conditions for change. Family therapy is conducted on assignment from investigating social workers with defined change goals or on assignment without a formal support decision. You conduct your work in the environments deemed most appropriate, which may be in meeting rooms, in the homes of our families, or other settings. As our new colleague, you feel both desire and inspiration to participate in the continuous development of our work with families and their networks. You develop an implementation plan for the assignment and work based on evidence- and knowledge-based methods, a systems-theory perspective, and other methods adapted to families' needs. Collaboration is an important part of the assignment as there is often a need for services from and coordination with various other actors. Involving the family's network is a natural part of your work to increase children's security and create conditions for ongoing support to families. Interventions may include assessments, observations, supervised contact, and individual support conversations. The work includes documentation in the form of creating implementation plans and ongoing record keeping. QUALIFICATIONS We welcome you who have the following: • Social work degree • Education and experience working with family therapy and experience working with foster families. We consider it meritorious if you have training in Marte Meo, MAFI, PYC, Project support, ICDP, FFT, or basic psychotherapy education (formerly level 1). To thrive and succeed in the role of family therapist, you need to have a strong ability to build trusting and good relationships. You collaborate well with the people you meet in your work, you listen and communicate in a curious and constructive manner. To create security with the families you meet, it is important that you are confident and stable as a person and that you distinguish between the personal and the professional. The work further requires that you are flexible and structured, where you take responsibility, plan and prioritize your work in an efficient manner. The child perspective is something you naturally apply in your work, and it permeates your assessments. We will place great weight on personal suitability in this recruitment. We ask those who have a social work degree and other qualifications to attach these with your application. Employment form: Permanent employment. Duration: Permanent, start date: 2026-10-05 or by agreement. If you are not a citizen of Sweden, EU, EEA or Switzerland and are offered employment, you must be able to demonstrate that you have a valid work permit or are exempt from the requirement to have a work permit. In Kristinehamn Municipality, we work for active leadership and employee engagement. This is created through dialogue and interaction between leaders and employees, which creates good conditions for job satisfaction in the organization. Our work environment is affected by how we treat each other, and we all have a responsibility to contribute. Together we work to ensure that the activities achieve their goals and that decisions made are also implemented. A curious mindset and willingness to collaborate are prerequisites for continuous improvements that lead to the best possible service to the municipality's residents. As an employee with us, you can expect support for new ideas, good development opportunities, and that we provide you with the tools you need to perform your work well. Kristinehamn Municipality sees diversity as a strength and we welcome all applicants. Our competence-based recruitment methodology aims to focus on the individual's competence and thereby also counteract discrimination. We warmly welcome your application! To ensure quality in the recruitment process and maintain good communication with you as a job applicant, we ask you to only submit your application via the application link in the ad. Questions regarding the recruitment process are handled by the recruitment unit.Are you a confident and relationship-building social worker ready to take on new challenges? The Support and Treatment Unit is now seeking a family therapist specializing in enhanced support for foster families. We warmly welcome your application! The Support and Treatment Unit is part of the Employment, Skills and Welfare Administration. The unit currently has nine family therapists and one family support coordinator, four people in the school social work team, one family counselor, and three curators at the family center. This position is located in family support, where we work with…

Overview

Type

job

Status

active

Visibility

public

City

Kristinehamn

Address

Kristinehamn kommun

GPS

59.309949432482, 14.111380308644copyopen in

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Published

31. 7. 2026

Edited

1. 8. 2026

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