SSPF/School Coordinator

Through our core values of courage, tolerance, and creativity, we work in Uppvidinge Municipality to provide excellent service and develop vital community functions for our residents, visitors, and businesses. Uppvidinge Municipality is the municipality's largest employer with approximately 800 employees. We want our employees to feel greatly engaged, and there should be room for flexibility and development. We offer meaningful work where we together have the opportunity to make a real difference for the municipality's residents. Welcome with your application and welcome to a municipality with a thriving business community, a rich community life, and proximity to nature! Individual and Family Care in Uppvidinge Municipality is part of the Welfare and Care Administration. We work closely together and close to those we serve. Our mission is to provide protection, support, and help for change – with the individual and family at the center. We are located in Lenhovda, approximately 30 minutes from Växjö, with free parking and a bus stop outside. We are a smaller organization, which means short decision-making processes, close leadership, and good opportunities for collaboration across unit boundaries. We have challenges to address, but we do it together. No one stands alone in difficult cases – we help each other, share knowledge, and collectively take responsibility for finding the best solutions for children and families. The Children and Family Unit consists of intake, investigating social workers, child social workers, family therapists, and foster care coordinators. Our senior social workers work close to the operations and provide case-related support in daily work. We are in an exciting transition with the new social services law. This means an increased focus on preventive work, early interventions, and collaboration. Here you have the opportunity to be involved in influencing how we develop our working methods and shape the future of social services – in practice, together with colleagues and collaboration partners. 1 position(s). DUTIES You will work together with a colleague who will have the same assignment. SSPF stands for School, Social Services, Police, and Recreation. As an SSPF/School Coordinator, you will work to coordinate the municipality's and other actors' interventions for children and youth who risk criminality or other norm-breaking development. In this role, you will also serve as the representative of the Individual and Family Care Unit in the school social team with a focus on interventions to promote school attendance. The position includes, among other things: · Coordinate collaboration between school, social services, police, and recreational activities. · Identify youth at risk. · Ensure that information and concerns about youth are captured early. · Plan and follow up on joint interventions. · Be a contact person between the different activities. · Work preventively against, for example, criminality, drugs, truancy, and destructive environments. · Participate in SSPF meetings and ensure that decisions and interventions are followed up. · Participate in school social team meetings. · Work with guardians and youth when needed. · Establish functioning collaboration routines between the activities. · Field work when needed. Certain authority-related duties are part of the position. This may include pre-assessments and statements regarding the described target group. QUALIFICATIONS We are looking for you who are engaged and passionate about social work. We are looking for you who are curious, not afraid of challenges, and persistent. As a person, you are unpretentious, quick to learn, confident in yourself, and have a good ability to prioritize. You are stress-resistant and flexible and ensure that what needs to be done gets done. You see possibilities rather than difficulties and enjoy the challenges of finding constructive solutions to complex problems. You are humble and receptive to others' opinions. You collaborate easily both internally and externally. Good conduct in client contacts is a matter of course for you. A requirement is that you have a degree in social work or an education that the employer considers equivalent. We would like to see that you have professional experience in social work, preferably in change work as a therapist. Experience with authority-related duties is a merit. Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability. A Class B driver's license is required. Salary form: Monthly salary. Employment form: Permanent employment. Duration: Permanent, start date: By agreement. Interviews may be conducted on an ongoing basis. Working hours: Daytime. The basic schedule is office hours, but working hours can also be arranged in the evenings and weekends if needed. If you become relevant for employment, the employer will request an extract from the criminal record register. The Municipal Council has made a decision that all new employees must present an extract from the criminal record register before employment. The extract that must be presented is the extract for work in school or preschool. To quality assure the recruitment process in Uppvidinge Municipality and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally and not via email or paper format. In preparation for the recruitment work, Uppvidinge Municipality has decided on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore firmly decline contact with media sales representatives, recruitment sites, and similar.

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