Social Secretary to the Children's Unit, Huddinge Municipality

Do you value proximity, growth, and creating the best conditions for everyone who lives and works in Huddinge Municipality? Then we offer numerous career opportunities in a well-functioning and growing municipality with both nature and big-city pulse around the corner. With us, you feel safe, included, and proud as we make a difference with strength, every day. In Huddinge Municipality, we work to create a sustainable society where nature, technology, and good service interact. Huddinge is a large Stockholm municipality with approximately 6,400 employees and more than 110,000 residents. If you have protected personal information, we ask you to contact the contact person specified in the job posting. Huddinge Municipality works to be a safe, lawful, and professional operation. As part of our recruitment process, we may therefore conduct background checks and request criminal record extracts in the final stages of certain recruitments. If you become relevant for this, you will receive clear information and the opportunity to give your consent before the check is conducted. The Social Services Department is responsible for individual and family care, elderly care, and care for persons with disabilities. We work preventively with support, services, and authority for children, young people, families, adults, elderly people, and persons with disabilities. Our mission is to increase individuals' conditions for living under the best possible living conditions and to strengthen individuals to live an independent life. We are a social service that is at the forefront of prevention work and in the transition to an even more accessible and knowledge-based social service. 1 position(s). About the Workplace The Children's Unit is part of the Children and Youth Section within Individual and Family Care (IFO). We work with investigation and follow-up of services according to the Social Services Act and the Care of Young People Act. The target group is families with children aged 0-12 years and their networks. Our primary focus is to conduct good social work. New employees have good collegial support from their colleagues and supervisors. The unit is divided into four smaller groups with a group leader in each group to provide close support to the social secretaries. As a rule, social secretaries work in pairs. We have an introduction program that extends over the first year of employment and includes individually tailored introduction as well as group training. If you are more experienced, we will together create a long-term development plan to best promote your continued development. All groups have external supervision and ongoing skills development. We are proud of the work we do and we want to continue to work for continuous improvement. We work together across the unit on methodology and development issues. In our unit, you have great scope to use your knowledge and you are responsible, together with your colleagues in your group, for conducting social work in a lawful, professional manner, and with good interaction. We are located in pleasant premises, together with a colleague or in a private office, in Flemingsberg, one of the municipality's most expansive areas, with good communications and proximity to both nature and important hubs such as Huddinge Hospital and Södertörn University. About the Work We are looking for committed employees who want to conduct qualified investigation work and take responsibility for follow-up of services. We work to increase children's sense of security and stability in their home environment and to encourage and strengthen families' own resources. The social secretaries have practical support from an administrative handler and support in the form of a clerk who in certain cases writes our decision documents. Two of our social secretaries have assignments as home investigators. A coordinator for Barnahus also belongs to the unit. We work according to the Signs of Safety approach, which all employees receive training in. We also have social secretaries who coach in this approach. The unit also has coaches in the conversation method Motivational Interviewing, which is also a basic training for everyone working in the unit. We are a cheerful, friendly, and helpful group that enjoys working in our workplace. We all have high commitment with the child's best interests in focus, which you naturally share. Your Profile We are looking for someone with a degree in social work and preferably previous experience of authority work, preferably within child authority. It is meritorious if you have knowledge of Signs of Safety and Motivational Interviewing. In the unit we work both independently and together with others. As a person, you need to have personal maturity and good empathetic ability. We collaborate with other actors around the child and we usually work in pairs, so you need to be both relationship-building and have good collaboration ability. With us awaits exciting, flexible, and varied work where we together in the unit contribute to continued development work to ensure quality in the operation and provide scope to develop in your professional role. Why Huddinge? For us to be able to carry out our mission, you as an employee in Huddinge Municipality are the most important thing we have. Therefore, we offer a number of benefits for a sustainable working life and to facilitate your everyday life: https://www.huddinge.se/arbete-och-karriar/arbeta-i-huddinge-kommun/#Formaner Trade Union Contact Person For the trade union contact person for this position, see Trade Union Contact Information (https://www.huddinge.se/arbete-och-karriar/ledigajobb/facklig-kontaktinformation/) Information For questions about the position, please contact Unit Manager Torbjörn Konradsen at phone 08-535 376 60 or email [email protected] To be able to handle all applications in the best way, we ask you to apply directly through our advertised positions. We do not accept spontaneous applications via email. For this position, you need to be able to present a valid extract from the criminal record before employment can begin. In your application, you attach your degree. The position is filled subject to the required decisions being made. Welcome with your application! Employment Form: Permanent employment. Duration: Permanent.

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