Social Worker, Reception Group Children and Youth, Tierps Municipality

Description:

Are you a social worker who wants to work with children, youth, and their families? We are looking for a social worker for our reception group – an engaged colleague who wants to help further develop our work to ensure that children and youth live in safe life situations. In preparation for the transition to the new social services act, we strengthened our reception group during 2024 to better meet future needs. The reception is part of the unit for children and youth with just over 35 employees. Here we work with both traditional reception tasks and the development of a more accessible, preventive, and knowledge-based social service. We are now looking for a new colleague who wants to drive this work forward together with us. Tierps Municipality is favorably located between Uppsala and Gävle, with proximity also to Stockholm, Arlanda, and the entire Mälardalen region. Here you will find varied living environments, nature and culture within reach, as well as good communications by road, rail, and digitally. Our values are important to us. We work based on respect, responsibility, customer focus, courage, and faith in the future. We apply trust-based management and governance to create strong relationships and trust between managers and employees. With us you are offered, among other things: - Accessible and present leadership - Regular supervision by a licensed psychotherapist - Wellness allowance - Vacation exchange - Ongoing competence development - Possibility of remote work when needed - Flexible working hours agreement - Health-promoting activities through our "Positive Club" We also offer a structured introduction plan with at least one introducer from the work group. Tierps Municipality works with the Professional Journey in collaboration with other municipalities in the region – a long-term development program for social work. 1 position(s). WORK DUTIES As a social worker in the reception group, you will have a varied, developing, and meaningful job. You are often the first contact for children, youth, and their networks and play an important role in providing advice, support, and guidance as well as assessing children's needs for protection and support. Your main tasks are to handle notifications and applications according to the social services act, conduct protection and preliminary assessments, and staff the unit's duty phone according to a rotating schedule. You handle both acute situations that require quick assessments and more planned cases with a focus on early support and preventive work. The position also includes conducting fast-track investigations, where the assessment is that the case can be closed within 60 days and only a few areas need investigation. The approach has been developed to more quickly be able to offer support and meet families' needs. The reception also offers advice and support conversations without needs assessment through TUTI (Early Detection – Early Intervention). The conversations are part of the social service's preventive and crime prevention work and are aimed at children and youth where there is concern about, for example, alcohol or drug use, norm-breaking behavior, or criminality. An important part of the mission is cooperation with preschools, schools, police, the House for Children, health and medical services, and other collaboration partners. You will also work closely with the municipality's school social team and SSPF collaboration to early identify and support children and youth at risk. The reception also has close cooperation with open care and other groups within the unit for children and youth. We also conduct active outreach work through information meetings, workshops, and presence in arenas where children and youth spend time. With us, you will have the opportunity to combine exercise of authority with preventive work and early interventions – and be part of shaping the future social service. QUALIFICATIONS We are looking for someone who is educated as a social worker and who wants to contribute to good meetings with children, youth, and their families. You have a genuine interest in social work and are driven by creating security, participation, and positive changes in people's lives. It is meritorious if you have experience with exercise of authority within children and youth, as well as experience of cooperation with other actors and preventive work. Experience with early interventions, advice and support conversations, or crime prevention work with children and youth is also meritorious. To thrive with us, you need to appreciate varied work where days are rarely the same. You have the ability to make professional assessments in acute situations while seeing the value of early interventions, preventive work, and building trusting relationships. You can organize, prioritize, and limit your work tasks and feel confident making decisions even when conditions change rapidly. We are looking for someone who is engaged, initiative-taking, and solution-focused. You find it easy to cooperate, communicate clearly and respectfully, and contribute to good treatment in encounters with both children, families, and collaboration partners. Since the assignment involves close cooperation with, among others, schools, police, health and medical services, and other actors, it is important that you have good communicative skills and find it easy to create and maintain good relationships. As a person, you are confident, stable, and flexible. You thrive in a workplace where the pace is sometimes high and where you need to be able to switch between different work tasks during the day. You contribute to a good work environment, are unpretentious, and see the value of developing together with your colleagues. We place great emphasis on personal suitability. A B driver's license is a requirement. Employment form: Permanent employment. Duration: Indefinite. Working hours: Daytime. We recruit continuously during the application period! We strive for diversity where our employees' backgrounds, experiences, knowledge, and personalities enrich the municipality. We decline offers of advertising and recruitment assistance.

Overview

Type

job

Status

active

Visibility

public

City

Tierp

GPS

60.3563828, 17.5104429copyopen in

Email

[email protected]

Phone

0293 21 8166

Views

8

Published

11. 6. 2026

Edited

21. 6. 2026

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