Social Worker - Children and Youth Reception Unit

Södertälje kommun · plný úvazek

Nyköpingsvägen 26, Södertälje, Švédsko

Do you want to use your experience where it makes a direct difference? At the Children and Youth Reception Unit in Södertälje, we are looking for an engaged and experienced social worker who wants to work on the front lines of social services. Here you will meet people at important stages of life, make qualified assessments, and contribute to ensuring that children and young people receive the right support at the right time. The Reception Unit is an exciting and developmental workplace where no two days are the same. The work is characterized by variety, new encounters, and unforeseen situations that require professional judgment, decisiveness, and flexibility. For someone who thrives with quickly understanding new cases, making decisions, and finding solutions, we offer an assignment that is both stimulating and meaningful. A major advantage of working at the reception unit is that contacts are often shorter and more limited than in many other parts of social services. You will have the opportunity to meet many different types of families, make important assessments, and then move on to the next assignment. The work also includes a certain emergency readiness through handling incoming reports and protection assessments, which means you continuously develop your skills in child welfare investigations, risk assessment, and authority administration. With us, you work closely with dedicated colleagues in a work group characterized by high competence, good cohesion, and unpretentious collaboration. We believe in the power of helping each other and creating a work environment where there is room for both laughter, learning, and professional support. Our team leaders and managers are close to the operations and offer secure and accessible leadership in everyday work. You always have support in difficult assessments while we encourage independence and professional development. We work in modern and pleasant facilities and have close collaboration with other units within Children and Youth as well as First Line Support. This provides good opportunities for joint learning, broad skills development, and comprehensive support to the children, young people, and families we meet. We work based on Signs of Safety and offer introduction, external supervision, and continuous skills development so you can develop in your professional role. Who are you? Requirements: - Have a degree in social work. - Have experience in social work. - Have a B driver's license. - Have very good ability to express yourself in Swedish, both orally and in writing. - Have good knowledge of relevant legislation and feel confident in making qualified assessments based on legislation, guidelines, and the best interests of the child. Meritorious: - Have experience with authority administration within children and youth. - Have experience working in social services reception activities. - Have knowledge of or experience with Signs of Safety. - Have training in or experience with Motivational Interviewing (MI). - Have experience with the Combine case management system. Personal qualities: To thrive and succeed in the role, you need to be a person who: - Is solution-focused and flexible. - Has good ability to prioritize and make decisions when conditions change rapidly. - Thrives in an activity with sometimes high pace. - Is organized and compliant in your work. - Has good analytical ability and can make professional assessments in complex situations. - Can work independently while contributing to good teamwork. - Has good ability to create and maintain trusting relationships with children, young people, families, collaborative partners, and colleagues. - Contributes to a positive work climate through engagement, responsibility, and professional conduct. We place great importance on your personal qualities. We offer you With us, you will have the opportunity to use all your skills in case management and authority administration while developing together with knowledgeable colleagues, present managers, and an operation that constantly strives to become even better for the children and families we exist to serve. As an employee of Södertälje Municipality, you are offered a secure employment, good employment conditions and work environment, skills development, and several benefits. Please read more about us on our website and for more information about our benefits: https://www.sodertalje.se/kommun-och-politik/jobba-hos-oss/formaner/ Welcome to us! Other information Selection and interviews may take place continuously during the application period. Södertälje Municipality works with competence-based recruitment methodology to counteract discrimination and promote diversity in the workplace. We have many positions where we conduct background checks. A police record excerpt (conviction and suspicion register) from the Police Authority may therefore need to be presented by the candidate before an employment decision. An employment with us may involve placement in a security classification. A security clearance with background check according to the Security Protection Act (2018:585) may therefore be conducted before an employment decision. For some of our tasks in security classification, Swedish citizenship is required.