Family Therapist for Support and Treatment Unit

Kristinehamns kommun · Vollzeit

Kristinehamn kommun, Kristinehamn, Schweden

Are you a confident and relationship-building social worker ready to take on new challenges? The Support and Treatment Unit is now looking for a family therapist with a focus on enhanced support to foster families. We warmly welcome your application! The Support and Treatment Unit is part of the Work, Competence and Welfare Administration. The unit currently has nine family therapists and one family support coordinator, four people in the school social work team, one family counselor, and three curators at the family center. This position is placed in family support, where we work with individually tailored support services based on assignments and goals from social services, open interventions without decisions, and group activities for parents and children. The assignments may be based on relationship and communication problems within the family, parents'/caregivers' difficulties in understanding, meeting and guiding their children, or behavioral problems in children and young people. The position also involves offering enhanced support as a time-limited enhanced intervention to foster families to strengthen the foster family's care capacity and prevent breakdowns. In this position, we offer flexible working hours and the opportunity to work remotely to contribute to a better balance between work and leisure. Other benefits include a wellness allowance and access to our engaged staff club that creates community and energy year-round. Possibility for holiday exchange is also available. You will come to brand new central premises where we work activity-based. 1 position(s). WORK TASKS As a family therapist, you work by building relationships with the families you meet through trust and confidence to create conditions for change. Family therapy is conducted on assignment from investigating social workers with determined change goals or on assignment without assistance decisions. You conduct your work in the environments deemed most appropriate, which may be in meeting rooms, in the homes of our families, or other environments. As our new colleague, you feel both the desire and inspiration to participate in ongoing development of our work together with families and their networks. You develop an implementation plan for the assignment and work based on evidence- and knowledge-based methods, a systemic approach, and other methods adapted to families' needs. Cooperation is an important part of the assignment, as there is often a need for interventions from and coordination with several different actors. Involving the family's network is a natural part of your work to increase children's security and create conditions for support to families over time. Interventions may include assessments, observations, contact support, and individual support conversations. The work includes documentation in the form of developing implementation plans and ongoing record keeping. QUALIFICATIONS We welcome you who have the following: • Social worker degree • Education and experience working with family therapy as well as experience working with foster families. We consider it meritorious if you have training in Marte Meo, MAFI, PYC, Project support, ICDP, FFT, or basic psychotherapy training (previously level 1). To thrive and succeed in the role of family therapist, you need to have a good ability to create trusting and good relationships. You cooperate well with the people you meet in your work, you listen and communicate in a curious and constructive way. To create security with the families you meet, it is important that you are confident and stable as a person and that you distinguish between the personal and professional. The work further requires that you are flexible and structured where you take responsibility, plan, and prioritize your work in an efficient manner. The child perspective is a matter of course for you to base your work on and it permeates your assessments. We will place great emphasis on personal suitability in this recruitment. We ask you who have a social worker degree and other qualifications to attach this in connection with your application. Type of employment: Permanent employment. Duration: Permanent, start date: 2026-10-05 or by agreement. If you are not a citizen of Sweden, EU, EEA, or Switzerland and are offered employment, you must be able to prove that you have a valid work permit or are exempt from the requirement to have a work permit. We in Kristinehamns kommun work for active leadership and employee engagement. This is created through dialogue and interaction between leaders and employees, which creates good conditions for job satisfaction in the organization. Our work environment is affected by how we treat each other and we all have a responsibility to contribute. Together we work for the activities to achieve their goals and for decisions made to be followed. A curious basic attitude and willingness to cooperate are prerequisites for continuous improvements that lead to the best possible service to the residents of the municipality. As an employee with us, you can expect support for new ideas, good development opportunities, and that we give you the tools you need to do your work well. Kristinehamns kommun sees diversity as a strength and we welcome all applicants. Our competence-based recruitment methodology aims to focus on the individual's competence and thereby also counteract discrimination. We warmly welcome your application! To quality assure the recruitment process and have good communication with you as a job seeker with us, we ask you to only submit your application via the application link in the ad. Questions regarding the recruitment process are handled by the recruitment unit.