Östra Göinge Municipality, with just over 13,800 residents, is centrally located in southern Sweden. Here, open agricultural landscape meets green forest countryside. In Östra Göinge, there is good living with secure housing, excellent schools, magnificent nature, a broad cultural offering, vibrant community life, and good communications. Östra Göinge is one of Sweden's boldest and most innovative municipalities. Here, setbacks have been turned into success and proud Göinge residents are flourishing!
We are now expanding our operations with a parent secretary who will join our placement team. The placement team consists of five child welfare secretaries, two foster care secretaries, and one team leader. The unit also includes the IFO authority and family law.
We work from a holistic perspective with focus on the child's needs, well-being, and development. We believe that collaboration, both internal and external, is of utmost importance to give our children and young people the best conditions in life. We are the small municipality that has quick decision-making and where responsibility is delegated far down in the organization – with us, you therefore get both responsibility and the opportunity to use your expertise fully. The goal is to develop a modern social service where we invest significantly in ensuring that all children and young people in Östra Göinge Municipality have equal opportunities for good living conditions.
We are located in our newly built municipal building in Broby in a modern and inspiring work environment.
1 position(s).
JOB DUTIES
We are now looking for a confident and secure parent secretary. As a parent secretary, you provide support to parents with children in foster care. The work takes place in close collaboration with the parent and social secretary, where the parent secretary is part of the work around the placed child together with the parent, social secretary, and foster parents, the so-called tripartite parenthood. Since this is a new position, it will develop over time and you are an important part of that development.
Your job duties will include:
• Helping parents understand the content of investigations and documents, such as care plans, implementation plans, and visitation plans
• Providing counseling support that strengthens parents who have children in institutional care
• Informing about the rights and responsibilities of being a parent to foster-placed children
• Recognizing and strengthening the development that the parent is making and providing support in the continued development that may be needed to be a secure parent from a distance
• Accompanying as support during meetings with the social service
• Providing parents with information about tripartite parenthood, an approach where the social service is responsible for ensuring that cooperation between parents, foster parents, and the social service works as well as possible – always with the child's best interests in focus
• Explaining the different professional roles within foster care and their functions
You will not have authority responsibility or be a decision-maker but will have an advisory and supporting function.
With us, you have great opportunity to develop in your work as a social secretary. We offer a positive and inspiring work environment with knowledgeable, pleasant, and cheerful colleagues where you are given the opportunity to learn new things and take your own responsibility. We naturally tailor the introduction to your individual needs and offer training and regular supervision.
QUALIFICATIONS
We are looking for you who are genuinely interested in working as described above – you who feel that this is the team you want to be part of, or who think that this position, in this municipality, sounds perfect for you – here you can thrive and contribute your expertise. In other words, we are looking for you who really has an interest in the role and who believes in our way of working and organizing, but who can also imagine developing as a social secretary.
Of course, you also need to meet the more formal requirements. These include having a degree as a social worker and previous experience with investigative work within social services with children and young people. It is also important that your personal suitability, your commitment, and your attitude fit the role and the work group.
As a person, you have the ability to listen to different perspectives and to cooperate with others. You are also good at structuring your work, prioritizing, and carrying out your tasks. Furthermore, you are familiar with applicable legislation and have a good ability to express yourself in Swedish, both spoken and written. You are interested in learning and developing in your work and take responsibility for ongoing professional development. If this is the position for you, do not hesitate to apply as we have ongoing recruitment.
Before employment is offered, an extract from the criminal record must be provided.
Employment Type: Permanent employment.
Duration: Permanent.
Warmly welcome to Östra Göinge Municipality – Skåne's green heart!
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In Östra Göinge Municipality, we strive for an even gender distribution and see diversity as a strength and therefore welcome applicants with different backgrounds.
Östra Göinge Municipality applies smoke-free working hours.
In preparation for the recruitment process, we have taken a position on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore kindly but firmly decline contact from media sales representatives, recruitment sites, and similar.Östra Göinge Municipality, with just over 13,800 residents, is centrally located in southern Sweden. Here, open agricultural landscape meets green forest countryside. In Östra Göinge, there is good living with secure housing, excellent schools, magnificent nature, a broad cultural offering, vibrant community life, and good communications. Östra Göinge is one of Sweden's boldest and most innovative municipalities. Here, setbacks have been turned into success and proud Göinge residents are flourishing!
We are now expanding our operations with a parent secretary who will join our placement…