Do you want to help make Gävle even better with us? At Gävle municipality, we work together with commitment to offer our residents a safe and inspiring environment. We offer you a workplace of trust where you can develop in your work and grow as a person. Welcome with your application!
1 position(s).
DUTIES
Do you want to make a real difference in children and young people's lives? With us, you get the opportunity to work with committed colleagues in an operation where the best interests of the child are always at the center.
The unit's mission is to investigate children and young people's need for protection and support, as well as follow up on interventions. This includes open measures but also placements in HVB homes, SIS institutions, and temporary placements.
The work is performed independently, together with a colleague and with support from a team leader. It involves planning, handling and documenting cases, but also leading meetings and coordinating work with others. It requires skill in communicating and collaborating with children, young people and their families as well as colleagues and cooperation partners. Society and children's needs change, which requires openness to learning new things, developing yourself and the unit's working methods.
QUALIFICATIONS
We are looking for you who have a degree in social work and experience with investigation work.
To succeed in your role as a social secretary
• You work by following statutory requirements, policies, and instructions and adhering to set schedules.
• You possess the ability to see what needs to be prioritized and organized, are efficient and use resources to achieve results in the best way.
• You work with legal certainty and have good judgment ability.
• You are good at both working independently and together with others, you come across as stable, have an easy time building trust and always work to provide good treatment.
• You have an easy time creating and maintaining good relationships and cooperate well with people in different contexts and functions.
You have good initiative and you understand spoken and written communication well. You have good documentation skills and can express yourself in speech and writing. You adapt your language to different situations and functions.
You have experience with BBIC (Children's Needs in Focus) and SoS (Signs of Safety).
A driver's license and good driving skills are a requirement for the position.
For this position, a certificate 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.
Type of employment: Permanent employment.
Duration: Permanent, start date: 2026-07-22, end date: 2026-08-16.
Working hours: Daytime.
We offer you
You are important to us! As an employee at 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 wellness and exercise when you are employed for more than three months.
• Several different insurances via our collective agreements, for example sick leave insurance and occupational injury insurance are included.
Read more about our benefits here: https://www.gavle.se/jobba-hos-oss/upptack-vara-formaner-for-trygghet-och-balans/
Our values
Quality, treatment and cooperation are the most important success factors for solving our mission in the best way. To do the right things and act wisely in our daily work, it is important that we base ourselves on our jointly expressed values.
Read more about us as an employer and what it is like to work at Gävle municipality here:
https://www.gavle.se/jobba-hos-oss/
Here you can read more about our organization:
https://www.gavle.se/kommun-och-politik/kommunens-organisation/
Gävle municipality is part of the Finnish administrative area. If you therefore, in addition to our other competence requirements, also speak Finnish, this can be a merit.Do you want to help make Gävle even better with us? At Gävle municipality, we work together with commitment to offer our residents a safe and inspiring environment. We offer you a workplace of trust where you can develop in your work and grow as a person. Welcome with your application!
1 position(s).
DUTIES
Do you want to make a real difference in children and young people's lives? With us, you get the opportunity to work with committed colleagues in an operation where the best interests of the child are always at the center.
The unit's mission is to investigate children and young people's…