Social Worker for School Social Team

Avesta kommun · Vollzeit

Markusgatan 25 , Avesta, Schweden

There's something special about Avesta! Here you'll find not just Dala horses and rushing rapids. Here you'll also find determination and courage, drive and faith in the future. It's the strength from the people that makes Avesta unique. Together we're building Avesta's future – do you want to be part of it? The Care Administration works based on the value that all the people we meet have equal worth and are unique. Within the administration we have IFO, LSS activities, social psychiatry, health and medical care, home care services and special housing. Here about 900 employees work around the clock for our target groups. 1 position(s). Duties Avesta Municipality launched a school social team in 2024 in project form and has seen positive effects of the work, which is why we are now choosing to hire a social worker to the team on a full-time basis. The school social team is a collaboration between the Education Administration and Social Services, and you will work in a team with employees from the school. As a social worker in the municipality's school social team, your role will be to work through early interventions to promote school attendance. The school social team works to support and help students in grades 4-9 with repeated, long-term school absence so they can achieve eligibility for upper secondary school. You will work with attendance-promoting measures, preventive measures and targeted interventions for students who have high absence rates. In your work you will among other things use motivational conversations with the student, parenting support and work with social adjustments or social change work with the student or their parents. Your job title will be family worker. Qualifications We are looking for someone who is trained as a social worker and who has previous experience of working with social work with children and young people. Since you will be working in all of the municipality's schools grades 4-9, a class B driving license for a manual transmission vehicle is a requirement. It is an advantage if you have training and experience in working with motivational conversations (MI). Training and experience in family therapy is also an advantage, for example functional family therapy (FFT). The position as a social worker in the school social team requires that you can collaborate with other people and can listen, communicate and resolve conflicts in a constructive way. You are able to build relationships with both students and parents as well as other professionals in the work. You can use your knowledge to help students and parents gain insight into factors that lead to behavior change. To thrive with us, you are persistent and continue working toward established goals despite various challenges and difficulties that arise. Your values are well-founded and clear and you are convinced that everyone's situation can be changed for the better while at the same time you have your own ideas about how the work can be solved and handled. If this sounds interesting and you meet our requirements, you are welcome to apply for the position and be part of starting a school social team in Avesta Municipality. Other Information For candidates who proceed in the recruitment process, we will request an extract from the criminal record register. More information about criminal record register extracts and how to apply for one can be found at polisen.se. For contact details for union representatives regarding this position, please see www.avesta.se/fackliga-organisationer We at Avesta Municipality care about our employees. As an employee at Avesta Municipality you have the opportunity to use both wellness time and a wellness allowance, you have free access to a staff gym, up to 30 free swimming sessions at one of the municipality's swimming pools every year, as well as access to other free wellness activities that the municipality arranges. To quality assure the recruitment process at Avesta Municipality and to meet the requirements that GDPR sets, we ask you to submit your application digitally and not via email or paper format. We warmly welcome your application! Employment Type: Permanent employment.