Social Worker with Focus on the School Social Team

Dals-Eds kommun · plný úvazek

Ed, Švédsko

Dals-Eds kommun, located in the scenic Dalsland region, "A Sweden in miniature," has approximately 4,600 residents, with 3,000 in the town of Ed. We are an attractive employer offering development for both individuals and the organization. We value trust, security, and care. Our ability to create a pleasant work environment and be a flexible organization determines our success in the future. We offer well-functioning services with good communications to, for example, Oslo and Göteborg. Did you know we also have good commuting options from Trollhättan, Vänersborg, and Uddevalla with travel times of 40-60 minutes, and that we have several employees who commute to our fantastic workplace every day. For more information about the municipality, visit www.dalsed.se Are you a skilled social worker and a person who can meet our children and young people in the context they are in and who never loses focus on the child's best interests? Then you are the person we are looking for. We believe in good relationships and a holistic approach to social work. We believe in a systematized and knowledge-based social service. The position with the school social team is initially through 2026, but if the school social team is not extended, the position and work tasks will transfer to another area under the social committee's responsibilities. Dals Eds kommun also works according to Backa Barnet Dalsland, which means early and quick interventions in cooperation between school, social services, healthcare, and police. Here you can expect to work with high-quality work, and the employer is positively inclined to listen to employees' ideas about developing the work and organization. We expect open dialogue, and as an employer, we care about a good physical and psychosocial work environment. Dals-Eds kommun offers its employees good professional development opportunities, the possibility of working from home, generous wellness benefits, a pleasant and secure work environment, and reasonable workload. WORK TASKS: As a school social worker within the school social team, your tasks include assessment, investigation, and direct operational work with students and their guardians. You collaborate with the other team members and school staff, with a focus on helping the student return to a more functional school experience. The team is a bridge between social services and the school, where cooperation with the school's various arenas is of great importance. Other work tasks include handling cases within the children and youth area according to applicable legislation. That is, you investigate and make decisions about interventions according to applicable legislation and are responsible for follow-ups of the interventions you have decided on. Most of your working time is based at the school together with the other team members. In our work, we strive to increase children's participation and ensure that children and parents experience good treatment. You work independently as a school social worker. In cases where needed, you have access to a co-handler. As an employee, you have good access to support and guidance from the senior social worker and unit manager, principal, but especially through the school social team. We work based on creative solutions tailored to each individual's needs and circumstances. The work requires a positive attitude toward both children, families, and colleagues. A good ability to cooperate and collaborate both internally and externally is important. We work closely together and cooperate and collaborate both internally and externally. With us, you get varied and enjoyable work where development and quality are combined with exciting challenges. For us, courage, credibility, joy, and care are important for thriving at work and in everyday life. Our employees are accustomed to short decision-making processes and good development opportunities. QUALIFICATIONS: We are looking for you who are a social worker or have equivalent education with experience in exercising authority in the children and family area and are accustomed to meeting children and young people. You have the ability to express yourself well in speech and writing. You are driven, responsible, and have a good ability to cooperate with different stakeholders. You should have a good ability to structure and plan your work. We would like you to have experience working with children and young people in complicated situations. You have a strong interest in children and young people developing according to their abilities and want to work with early interventions to promote school attendance, well-being, and in the long term an opportunity to achieve upper secondary school eligibility. As a person, you have the ability to see children's and young people's different needs and take their individual circumstances into account. You have an open attitude and an inclusive approach. We place great importance on cooperation skills, flexibility, and personal suitability. In the overall assessment, great weight will be placed on personal qualities and suitability. Experience in close cooperation with the school as well as experience with BBIC and knowledge of Lifecare are also merit factors. A class B driver's license is required. EMPLOYMENT TERMS: - Permanent employment - Start as soon as possible - Employment level 100% - Work arranged during daytime but field work and evening work may occur occasionally - Individual and differentiated salary setting applies - Collective agreement: the agreement area's Main Agreement with associated General Terms and its appendices apply. OTHER: We apply ongoing selection in this recruitment; interviews may take place during the application period. Employment is conditional on presenting an extract from the criminal record and suspicion register according to the Act (2013:852) on background checks for persons who will work with children. You can order your extract via the Police Authority's e-service. INFORMATION: See contact persons below. Trade union representatives can be reached via the municipality's switchboard 0534-19000. APPLICATION: To ensure quality in the recruitment process, we ask you to submit your application together with a CV, etc., digitally and not via email or paper format. To protect your privacy, we ask you as an applicant to avoid protected and sensitive personal information in the documents you send to us. This includes, for example, personal identity numbers and information that can be linked to ethnic origin, family situation, religion, health, political or trade union involvement. You apply via the link *Apply* no later than 2026-10-18. Welcome with your application! We decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this advertisement.