About this role
Welcome to Simrishamn Municipality! The municipality where the surroundings add a golden touch to everyday life. Here, you become part of something big. With your approach and commitment, you play a key role in improving daily life for our citizens. Our close-knit environment is our strength, fostering a familial atmosphere, broadening our missions, and providing you with excellent opportunities for development. We strive to work with trust at all levels of the organization, aiming for a meaningful and sustainable work life. Here, you become part of something significant, but never just one of the crowd.
Nova High School is a smaller upper secondary school offering both vocational and academic preparatory programs. The school also provides introductory programs. Centrally located in Simrishamn, the school is characterized by community and close relationships between students and staff.
RESPONSIBILITIES
As a school social worker, you are responsible for contributing appropriate interventions at the individual, group, and organizational levels from a social and psychosocial perspective. On behalf of the school management, you work to identify and create opportunities for development that will positively impact students' health and learning.
In your role, you work to enhance the conditions for students to achieve their maximum potential in their learning development. The social worker employs a solution-focused and evidence-based approach, both preventive and health-promoting. Responsibilities include conducting social mapping and assessments, providing guidance, as well as consultation and advice to school staff. Collaboration with various authorities and other organizations is a crucial aspect of the job, along with ensuring that the school's plan against harassment is a living document put into practice.
As a social worker, you are an integral and important part of the school's collective student health work, which is coordinated and led by the student health team.
QUALIFICATIONS
You hold a degree in social work. Additionally, experience working with children and adolescents in schools, social services, or other contexts is advantageous. Prior professional experience as a school social worker and/or working with students facing psychosocial challenges is also a plus.
As a person, you have a positive attitude where dialogue, participation, and equality in interactions with students, staff, and guardians are fundamental. You demonstrate a strong ability to collaborate with students, guardians, and other professionals in interdisciplinary teams. You are positive and solution-oriented, capable of working independently and in a structured manner while taking responsibility and initiative. You possess the ability to lead difficult conversations with students, guardians, and staff in a trust-building manner and strive to promote an open and constructive dialogue with school leadership.
Furthermore, you have a strong ability to initiate, implement, and evaluate health-promoting and preventive work. We expect you to be a stable and trustworthy person who can build trust with students, and you should possess good knowledge of the school's governing documents. You constantly strive for further development aimed at improving the school situation for all students from both a knowledge perspective and through a salutogenic approach.
During the recruitment process, personal suitability for the role will be of great importance.
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