Child Welfare Secretary for Foster Care Unit

Gävle kommun · Vollzeit

Drottninggatan 22, Gävle, Schweden

Do you want to help make Gävle even better with us? At Gävle Municipality, we work with dedication together 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! 5 position(s). JOB RESPONSIBILITIES Do you want to work professionally, with legal certainty, and at the same time close to children and young people? Foster Care Unit Authority in Gävle is seeking dedicated child welfare secretaries who want to make a real difference. With us, structure and quality are combined with warmth and commitment. Our starting point is simple but decisive—every child should grow up in a safe and loving environment. Through professional and long-term work, we create the conditions for stability, development, and hope for the future for foster care placed children and young people. You will become part of a work team consisting of a unit manager, three senior staff, and 17 child welfare secretaries, plus our administrative support. Our workplace is centrally located in Gävle. We work closely with Foster Care Unit, Support. As a new employee, you will have access to a mentor and an individual introduction with internal supervision. Your work tasks include: • Take responsibility for authority operations according to the Social Services Act and the Care of Young Persons Act. • Document, investigate, and make decisions according to current legislation. • Follow up on the child's development and care during placement. • Conduct regular individual conversations with the child. • Ensure the child's participation and make the child's voice heard. • Collaborate with guardians, foster families, schools, and other networks. • Pay attention to and follow the child's health, schooling, and social situation. • Make regular visits to see the placed children in their foster homes. The position means you will be the responsible child welfare secretary for foster care placed children and young people. You are responsible for follow-up and legally secure authority operations, while building trustful relationships and ensuring that the child's needs, rights, and participation are at the center throughout the process. The position involves some travel. QUALIFICATIONS You are a secure and dedicated child welfare secretary who always puts the child's best interests in focus. You enjoy working long-term and see the value in building sustainable relationships over time with both the children and their networks. By investing time and care in every contact, you can follow the children's development, see their progress, and truly reap the rewards of your work. For you, the child welfare secretary role is not just about making decisions, but about being there, creating security, and making a real difference in children's lives for many years to come. To be suitable for the position, you have: • A degree in Social Work. • Category B driver's license for a manually geared car. • Driving experience. Merits for the position: • Experience with follow-up work of foster care placed children and young people. • Experience with long-term contacts in child and youth care. • Investigation experience and careful documentation. • Training in Signs of Safety and Taping. We are looking for someone who: • Is structured and has a good ability to prioritize and drive your work forward. • Works efficiently with a focus on quality and legal certainty. • Has an unpretentious and respectful approach in collaboration with others. • Is flexible and confident in adapting to changed situations. • Can adapt your communication according to the child's age and maturity. • Enjoys meeting and talking with children and young people and building long-term professional relationships. In accordance with Gävle Municipality's values, you have good interpersonal skills, cooperate well with others, and maintain high quality in your work. Working with foster care is about taking responsibility for something greater than yourself—it is a task that requires both professionalism and heart. Do you want to help create security and hope for the future for children and young people? For this position, a certificate from the police criminal record is required. This will only be requested from the final candidates in the last stage of the recruitment process. Warmly welcome with your application. Employment form: Permanent employment. Duration: Permanent, start date: By agreement. Working hours: Daytime. To ensure the quality of the recruitment process at Gävle Municipality and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask that you submit your application digitally via Visma Recruit, not by email or paper format. If you have a protected identity, please contact the recruiting manager; do not submit your application digitally. Gävle Municipality is part of the Finnish administrative area. If you, in addition to our other competency requirements, also speak Finnish, it can be an asset. In preparation for the recruitment work, Gävle Municipality has decided on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore strongly decline contact with media sales representatives, recruitment sites, and similar.