Do you value proximity, growth, and creating the best conditions for everyone living and working in Huddinge Municipality? Then we offer numerous career opportunities in a well-functioning and growing municipality with both nature and urban vibrancy just around the corner. With us, you will feel secure, involved, and proud as we make a difference every day. In Huddinge Municipality, we work to create a sustainable society where nature, technology, and good service interact. Huddinge is a large municipality in Stockholm with approximately 6,400 employees and more than 110,000 residents.
The Social Services Department is responsible for individual and family care, elderly care, and care for people with disabilities. We work preventively with support, interventions, and authority exercise for children, youth, families, adults, the elderly, and individuals with disabilities.
Our mission is to enhance individuals' opportunities to live under the best possible living conditions and to empower individuals to lead independent lives. We are a social service that is at the forefront of preventive work and the transition to an even more accessible and knowledge-based social service.
**About the Workplace**
Huddinge Municipality invests in preventive work!
We are looking for a substitute for the central family center in Huddinge. The position is full-time and lasts for one year.
The family center is one of four family centers in Huddinge. The central Huddinge family center is co-located with the Open Preschool and has a close collaboration with the Child Health Center and the Midwifery Clinic.
The family center is a service for expectant parents, children aged 0-5 years, parents, and other important adults in the child's life. We offer a meeting place with support tailored to the entire family's life situation. Here, visitors can access both general health-promoting and targeted preventive support in the form of Open Preschool activities, individual conversations, and parent groups. The long-term goal of the family centers is to strengthen protective factors and reduce risk factors for the target group through professional collaboration.
The central Huddinge family center offers you a creative and development-oriented work environment in close collaboration with other professional categories.
The social workers at the family centers are part of the Preventive Unit for ages 0-20 within the Child and Youth Section of the Social Services Department, along with Coordinators for Parenting Support, the Prevention Team, the group activity Fridlyst, and Parent Advisors.
**Job Responsibilities**
As a social worker at the family center in central Huddinge, you will engage in health-promoting and preventive psychosocial work, which involves providing information, advice, and support both individually and in groups in collaboration with other services within the family center. The social workers also lead the parent groups ABC and the Safety Circle. The work includes collaboration with other community actors responsible for the target group.
Social workers at the family centers in Huddinge Municipality have regular joint meetings and supervision.
**Your Profile**
We are looking for someone who is a social worker or has equivalent academic qualifications. You have at least 2 years of experience in qualified work with pregnant women and/or very young children and families within health-promoting, preventive, and/or outpatient social services.
It is beneficial if you have experience leading groups. Additionally, group leadership skills in ABC and the Safety Circle are considered extra advantageous.
We seek a colleague with a strong ability to collaborate with other professionals. For successful work, you need to be relationship-building, attentive, and able to establish trust. Important qualities include being structured and capable of independently planning and executing your work. We are looking for someone who is proactive and motivated to drive activities within the organization. Furthermore, we place great emphasis on personal suitability.
**Why Huddinge?**
To fulfill our mission, you as an employee in Huddinge Municipality are our most valuable asset. Therefore, we offer a range of benefits for a sustainable work life and to ease your everyday life: Work in Huddinge Municipality (https://www.huddinge.se/arbete-och-karriar/arbeta-i-huddinge-kommun/#Formaner)
**Inquiries**
For questions about the position, please contact Unit Manager Eva Olanders at
[email protected].
We kindly decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this advertisement.
To ensure we can manage all applications effectively, we ask you to apply directly through our advertised positions. We do not accept spontaneous applications via email. Our recruitment system cannot handle anonymous applications or applicants with protected personal data. If you have protected personal data, please contact the designated contact person listed in the advertisement.
For this position, you will need to provide a valid extract from the criminal record before employment can commence.
We look forward to receiving your application!