Do you want to help make Gävle an even better place with us? In Gävle Municipality, we work together with commitment to provide our residents with a safe and inspiring environment. We offer you a trusted workplace where you can develop in your work and grow as a person. Welcome to apply!
The Unit for Intimate Partner Violence's mission is to provide high accessibility to support services and protective measures for people in need of them. Our target group includes adults exposed to intimate partner violence or honor-related violence and oppression, as well as adults who commit intimate partner violence or honor-related violence. We also work with children whose guardians apply for support due to intimate partner violence or honor-related violence and oppression, as well as children who have been reported after witnessing violence or being exposed to honor-related violence and oppression.
With us, social workers, treatment specialists, and counselors work closely together. The unit also has administrative support that is an important resource for the operation. We are in an exciting development process, both within our own unit and across social services in general, where we together develop future working methods to meet our target group's needs.
Do you want to be part of a developmental, innovative, and engaged workplace where collaboration and quality are in focus? Then you might be the person we're looking for.
Together we make Gävle safer!
1 position(s).
JOB DUTIES
As a social worker at the Unit for Intimate Partner Violence with a focus on adults, you become part of our first line. You have an advisory function, collaborate with other actors, and work actively in the arenas where our residents are.
Since open care services for adults are offered without an assistance decision, a large part of your work will consist of advice, motivational conversations, collaboration, and accessible support. You conduct investigations when an application is received and when there is a need to investigate protective measures. You are also an important resource for colleagues working with child investigations, as the unit has shared responsibility for providing coordinated support to the entire family.
The work includes qualified case management according to the Social Services Act, including investigation, assessment of the need for emergency protective measures, and follow-up of decisions made in cases concerning intimate partner violence and honor-related violence and oppression.
You also have the opportunity to participate in our treatment groups as a group leader together with our treatment specialists. We have a focus on expanding our group activities and see value in our investigators also being able to combine their position with these tasks if interested.
QUALIFICATIONS
Formal competencies:
• Social work degree.
• Category B driving license and driving experience as travel occurs in the position.
• Relevant experience with the target group and public authority exercise within the Social Services Act.
We consider it a merit if you have in-depth knowledge about violence.
To succeed in the role:
You inspire confidence, create credibility and trust. You have the ability to spread calm and stability. You take your own initiatives, are courageous, and have the ability to distinguish between the issue and the person. You take initiative in social situations and have the ability to create trusting relationships. You understand others' situations, listen, and show consideration. To succeed in the role, you have the ability to lead, motivate, and inspire others and help them develop and feel well. You are good at creating open dialogue and adapt your approach based on the situation. You create trusting relationships and make others feel safe.
You understand spoken and written communication well; can express yourself and interact with others in speech and writing; adapt your language to different situations, purposes, and audiences; have linguistic confidence in both speech and writing.
For this position, an extract from the police's criminal record register is required. This will only be requested from the final candidate in the last step of the recruitment process.
Employment form: Permanent employment.
Duration: Indefinite.
Working hours: Daytime.
We offer you
You are important to us! As an employee in Gävle Municipality, you have
• Generous vacation benefits and as a new employee you also have the right to paid vacation during your first year of employment
• Compensation for fitness and wellness when you have been employed for more than three months
• Several different insurances through our collective agreements, for example sickness insurance and occupational injury insurance are included.
Read more about our benefits here: https://www.gavle.se/formaner
Our values
Quality, treatment, and collaboration are the most important success factors for fulfilling our mission in the best way possible. To do the right things and act wisely in our daily work, it is important that we base ourselves on our jointly stated values.
Read more about us as an employer and what it's like to work in Gävle Municipality here:
https://www.gavle.se/jobbahososs
Here you can read more about our organization:
https://www.gavle.se/organisation
Gävle Municipality is part of the Finnish administrative area. If you therefore speak Finnish in addition to our other competency requirements, that could be a merit.
Information to recruitment consultants and ad sellers: We decline all contact regarding advertising and recruitment services.Do you want to help make Gävle an even better place with us? In Gävle Municipality, we work together with commitment to provide our residents with a safe and inspiring environment. We offer you a trusted workplace where you can develop in your work and grow as a person. Welcome to apply!
The Unit for Intimate Partner Violence's mission is to provide high accessibility to support services and protective measures for people in need of them. Our target group includes adults exposed to intimate partner violence or honor-related violence and oppression, as well as adults who commit intimate…