Do you want to work making a real difference for children and young people in family foster care? With us, you'll have the opportunity to use your social work expertise in a meaningful role where you help create safe and sustainable solutions for children and young people.
We're now seeking an engaged social worker who wants to join our team as a consultant and family foster care assessor. We're an organization that values a good work environment, quality in our work, and continuous development of foster care services. At our workplace, joy, engagement, and responsibility are important guiding principles.
As a consultant and family foster care assessor, you'll work closely with our foster families and be responsible for recruiting, assessing, training, and providing support to foster homes. You'll play an important role in creating security and stability for children and young people placed in foster care.
We complement municipalities' own options and provide specialist expertise, support, and experience in foster care services.
You'll become part of an engaged work team that together works to enable safe and inclusive environments for our children. We value collaboration, development, and a work environment where employees have the opportunity to grow in their roles. We're located in pleasant offices in central Enköping.
Your responsibilities
As a consultant and family foster care assessor, you'll, among other things:
Recruit, assess, and train foster families
Provide support and supervision to foster families
Follow up and ensure quality of foster care placements
Contact and collaborate with municipalities, foster families, and other partners
Work based on evidence-based methods
Work both independently and together with colleagues
Contribute to developing the organization's working methods and quality
We're looking for you – a trained social worker
We're seeking a trained social worker who wants to work in foster care services. You might be at the beginning of your professional career or have previous experience in social work – what's most important is your engagement, your willingness to develop, and your professional approach.
You're confident in meeting with people and find it easy to build trusting relationships. You enjoy working both independently and in a team, and you have the ability to take responsibility, structure your work, and handle different situations with flexibility and persistence.
Qualifications
Social work degree is required
Driver's license (Category B) is required
Experience in social work is a plus but not required
Good documentation skills are required
Good ability to express yourself verbally and in writing
Before employment, you must provide a clearance from the police's suspicion and conviction registry.
Welcome to apply – we look forward to finding our next engaged social work colleague!