Family Foster Care Secretary at SF Nordost

GÖTEBORGS KOMMUN · Full-time

Göteborgs Stad, Göteborg, Sweden

Job Responsibilities We are now seeking staff for permanent family foster care services with us in Nordost. The family foster care operations in Nordost – Bergsjön is a unit focused on placed children and foster families. The unit is divided into four different groups: duty group, recruitment group, foster family group, and contact activities. The operation consists of a unit manager and two senior social secretaries and approximately 25 family foster care secretaries. With us you will receive close supervision, a cohesive team with strong team spirit, external mentoring, and solid competency development. You will work within the foster family group where the work is primarily focused on providing individual support, advice, and guidance to foster families. The work also involves assessing new foster homes, ongoing documentation, and managing agreements and foster family compensation. To succeed in this assignment, you need close collaboration with child secretaries, school family teams, and other external partners. You maintain both a child perspective and a foster family perspective in your work. The work is multifaceted, exciting, and challenging, which gives you great opportunities for development. We value teamwork between family foster care secretaries, child secretaries, investigating social secretaries, family therapists, and other partners. Therefore, we hold common methodology, team, and wellbeing days. We practice trust-based leadership and leverage the capacity and strength that exists among all children, relatives, and foster care secretaries, believing that together we can achieve the best for our placed children and foster families. Foster families are primarily located in Västra Götaland, Halland, and Bohuslän, which means some travel in your work by car and other means. Evening work may occur. Qualifications We are looking for someone with a degree in social work (socionomexamen). It is a merit if you have previous experience in family foster care and with public authority work. You are well familiar with applicable legislation and regulations in the field. Good computer skills are a requirement, and previous experience with three-shift work is a merit. As a family foster care secretary, meeting families in need of support is part of your daily work. It is therefore important that you have good people skills, easily adapt your approach based on changed circumstances and new information. Furthermore, we see that you are responsible and communicative, taking responsibility for your individual and shared tasks with the organization's and clients' best interests in focus. You take your tasks seriously, are committed to completing what you start, and ensure that work is performed to the best standard. As a family foster care secretary, you plan and organize your work efficiently and can easily reprioritize your tasks when needed during the work day. You need to be calm and confident and able to make well-founded decisions within the scope of your assignment. You act independently based on what the situation requires without needing support from others. You also need good documentation skills and the ability to express yourself well in Swedish, both verbally and in writing. The work involves travel, and therefore a B driver's license is a requirement. We warmly welcome your application! Other Information For positions involving direct and regular contact with children under 18 years old, you must be able to present a valid extract from the police criminal record (belastningsregistret) before you start working with us. 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