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Do you want the chance to make a difference for children and families in Malmö? As we are now expanding with 2 additional family treatment specialists on our Presence Team, here's your opportunity to apply for a position where you can truly make a difference!
The Presence Team is a support service aimed at children in grades 2-9 with extensive and often long-term school absenteeism. The intervention begins with a thorough assessment that then guides the work. Depending on the child's situation, work is conducted directly focusing on returning to school at home, or alternatively with instruction in the Presence Team's facilities as a first step in breaking isolation.
The Presence Team started as an ESF-financed project focused on grades 7-9. Based on positive results, the departments have decided to make the work method an ordinary activity, and also to expand with family treatment resources for grades 2-6.
Malmö City's Presence Team is organizationally part of the Employment and Social Services Department (ASF) and the Primary School Department (GRF). As a family treatment specialist, you are employed by the Employment and Social Services Department in the Family Interventions unit. When the current positions are filled, the Presence Team will consist of 5 family treatment specialists, 5 teachers, 1 special educator, 1 coordinator, and 2 section managers.
Duties
The Presence Team is an intervention based on collaboration. Here you work together with teachers and a special educator to help children and young people break isolation and increase school attendance. As a family treatment specialist, you are responsible for conducting treatment from a systemic perspective to increase protective factors and reduce risk factors related to school absenteeism. Treatment is conducted in various configurations; primarily with the young person and guardian as well as other relevant people in the system. Network work and collaboration, particularly with home school but also with, for example, child rehabilitation services and child and adolescent psychiatry, are also central parts of the work. Treatment is conducted at the office but also in the home environment, outdoors, and in the facilities of respective collaboration partners. When needed, some work is also conducted outside regular office hours.
As a team member in the Presence Team, you will have great opportunities to structure and plan your work, based on shared responsibility for the team's functioning and development.
Qualifications
We are looking for someone with a degree in social work or another university education that the employer deems equivalent. You have documented experience in family treatment and extensive experience collaborating with schools and other relevant actors. You have a strong interest in, and experience with, work addressing problematic school absenteeism and flexibility in understanding these issues. You have very good knowledge of Swedish in speech and writing. It is meriting if you have training in, and experience with, family therapy or CBT. It is also meriting to have experience working with interpreters and knowledge of languages other than Swedish.
As a person, you are humble and curious, and interested in the world around you. You are relationship-building and have a high degree of professionalism. You place great emphasis on the whole picture and have a good ability to structure and formulate treatment goals. You are humble in the face of families' different living circumstances and flexible in finding viable ways forward. In your work group, you contribute your knowledge and support, and you are also open about areas where you feel less confident. You want to contribute to a workplace with great work joy and have an interest in development, questioning, and testing new methods. Given that the service has been a project that will transition to ordinary operations, you also need to be patient with change and accept that not all answers are always available from the beginning.
About the Workplace
The Family Interventions unit consists of 11 sections. The current positions are organized under section F, which consists of 12 family treatment specialists working with family treatment for all types of issues, of which 1 has a specific part-time coordination assignment linked to the Presence Team, as well as a coordinator and section manager. The Presence Team's facilities are located at Ekgatan 40 in Hindby, Malmö.
With us you are offered introduction, supervision, skills development, flexible working hours, the opportunity for vacation exchange, and wellness benefits.
At Sweden's largest employment and social services department, 2,500 employees work every day to strengthen the residents of Malmö. Together with the residents of Malmö, we want to increase opportunities for self-sufficiency, reduce homelessness, contribute to children and young people having good conditions for growing up, and work to ensure that newly arrived residents have good opportunities. It is important and rewarding work, but far from simple. Apply for a job with us—you will make a difference.
Malmö City's operations are organized into 14 departments. Our shared mission is to create welfare and sustainable societal development. Together with the residents of Malmö, we develop an even better city to live, work, and be in; diversity, life experience, and talent make Malmö a smart city in the heart of Europe. The world's knowledge is here.
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Job Information
Employment Type: Permanent
Scope: Full-time
Number of Positions: 2
Start Date: As soon as possible by agreement
Other
Recruiting Manager Martin Möllerstedt is available for questions August 10-14.
Interviews will be held in weeks 34-36
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Please note that Malmö City has removed the cover letter from the application process and replaced it with selection questions, to create a more inclusive recruitment process and an efficient candidate experience for you as a job seeker with us. Your answers will be an important part of our selection work.
Malmö City strives for employees to represent the diversity that exists in our city. We therefore welcome applicants who can contribute to us as an employer being able to meet the needs of the residents of Malmö.Ref: 20261688
Do you want the chance to make a difference for children and families in Malmö? As we are now expanding with 2 additional family treatment specialists on our Presence Team, here's your opportunity to apply for a position where you can truly make a difference!
The Presence Team is a support service aimed at children in grades 2-9 with extensive and often long-term school absenteeism. The intervention begins with a thorough assessment that then guides the work. Depending on the child's situation, work is conducted directly focusing on returning to school at home, or…