At Österlen, we create conditions for high quality of life where Tomelilla Municipality is a place for inspiration and development. The municipality has approximately 800 employees and we offer you good development opportunities, participation through trust, and the possibility of balance between work and leisure.
We are currently on a development journey focused on streamlining and improving our services. Our ambition is to be leading in leveraging the opportunities that digitalization provides. In short—we will make it easy for everyone who lives in, works in, or visits Tomelilla Municipality.
The Children and Family Unit consists of a senior social secretary, intake, investigation group, family care group consisting of two child secretaries and two foster care secretaries, and administrative support. The unit is led by a unit manager. Within the work group, there is a warm and positive atmosphere where we care for one another and work closely together in daily operations. We support each other in challenging situations, help with difficult assessments, and see differences in experience and background as a strength. Together, we create a safe and developing work environment where participation and community are self-evident values.
With us, a trust-based approach is the foundation of everything we do. We are convinced that this way of working creates conditions for a positive work climate, increased motivation and engagement, greater flexibility and innovation, as well as reduced detailed management and bureaucracy. Our guiding principles in daily work are the child's best interests, trust, openness, and a holistic perspective.
If you start working with us, you will become part of an engaged and supportive team with fantastic colleagues. We offer you meaningful, varied, and developing work where you have the opportunity to grow in your role. With us, you receive a good introduction, continuous competence development, wellness allowance, discounted ticket within Skånetrafiken, flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote work to some extent.
Welcome to a workplace where cooperation, trust, and the child's best interests are in focus.
-Vjollca, Unit Manager
1 position(s).
WORK TASKS
Support and Care in Tomelilla Municipality is seeking an engaged social secretary for the children and family authority unit.
As a social secretary, you are responsible for conducting investigations according to the Social Services Act (SoL) and the Act on Care of Young People (LVU), focusing on children and young people aged 0-21 years. You grant and follow up on support and treatment interventions aimed at creating safe and developing environments for each child.
In acute situations, you need to be able to make quick and well-founded assessments and make decisions with the child's security and safety as the primary guide. The work requires high independence within the framework of applicable legislation, guidelines, and proven experience.
You collaborate closely with the child's network and key stakeholders such as preschools, schools, child and adolescent psychiatry services, police, and other cooperation partners. Good treatment, trust, and a holistic perspective are central parts of our operations, as is ensuring that every decision and intervention is shaped with the child's best interests in focus.
Through your assignment, you contribute to the operation being characterized by high professionalism, trust, and respectful treatment where each child is met with attentiveness, participation, and security.
You will become part of a competent and supportive team. In daily work, you receive guidance from both the unit manager and senior social secretary, who together with you and colleagues drive the operation's method development. You are also offered external supervision to strengthen your professional development.
QUALIFICATIONS
We are looking for an experienced social worker with:
• Social work degree.
• Experience with investigation work within social services.
• Good knowledge of legislation within SoL and LVU.
• Good ability to express yourself in Swedish in both speech and writing.
• Good collaboration skills and communication abilities.
• B-class driver's license required.
To thrive in our investigation group, you need to be flexible, unpretentious, and have the ability to maintain a realistic and solution-focused perspective in the situations that arise in daily work as an authority officer.
We would like you to be a stable and secure person with good self-awareness and professional integrity. You are attentive to children's and families' needs and have a good ability to create trusting relationships even in vulnerable and complex life situations.
You plan, organize, and prioritize your work in a structured way. You enjoy collaboration and actively contribute to a good work environment.
As a person, you are development-oriented and reflective with good analytical skills—qualities that contribute to both legally secure decisions and continuous improvement of operations.
It is advantageous if you have:
• Experience with authority work within children and families based on BBIC.
• Experience working with intimate partner violence.
• Training in MI, Freda, Patriark, Signs of Safety.
• Other language skills.
Form of employment: Permanent employment.
Duration: Start date according to agreement.
Tomelilla Municipality has smoke-free working hours.
Employees are recruited on the assumption that the position does not need to be filled by already employed personnel or persons with priority rights.
To ensure the quality of the recruitment process and enable good communication with our applicants, applications must be submitted digitally via Visma Recruit and not via email or paper format. If you have protected personal information, you should not apply via Visma Recruit but instead contact HR Recruitment via the switchboard 0417-18 000.
In preparation for the recruitment work, Tomelilla Municipality has taken a position on desirable recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore firmly decline contact with media sales representatives, recruitment sites, and similar services.At Österlen, we create conditions for high quality of life where Tomelilla Municipality is a place for inspiration and development. The municipality has approximately 800 employees and we offer you good development opportunities, participation through trust, and the possibility of balance between work and leisure.
We are currently on a development journey focused on streamlining and improving our services. Our ambition is to be leading in leveraging the opportunities that digitalization provides. In short—we will make it easy for everyone who lives in, works in, or visits Tomelilla…