About this role
In Sandviken, the world is always present. Here, we feel at home and make each other better. As an employee of Sandviken Municipality, you hold one of Sweden's most important jobs. Therefore, it is essential for us that you enjoy your work and feel that your contributions are valuable to the community.
We believe that the path to achieving this is for everyone, whether a manager or an employee, to strive to improve each other. The best work is done together. Through a holistic approach, collaboration, dialogue, and by leveraging each other's differences. As an employer and employees, we work together for a long-term and sustainable work life. This, in turn, leads to a successful and developing municipality. When we make each other better – we make Sandviken Municipality better!
The Department of Individual and Family Care in Sandviken Municipality has, for just over a year, initiated an extensive implementation of Signs of Safety, with the goal that all operations will work with the methodology as one of the foundational pillars of the service. The vision is that all children and adults who encounter Individual and Family Care in Sandviken receive coherent and comprehensible support that considers the whole and strengthens families' own resources and networks. Adults and children are made co-creators of sustainable solutions and trusting relationships. To further strengthen the work with Signs of Safety, the department is now investing in three new positions that have Signs of Safety as their primary mission, focusing on safety planning and stable home-based solutions in complex cases.
Within Individual and Family Care, there are excellent opportunities for professional development, and the entire workgroup is actively involved in the development of the service. We have a good and close collaboration with our clients in the authority, close leadership, and external group supervision once a month.
We offer you, among other benefits:
• Vacation exchange
• Annual working hours
• Wellness allowance
• Health-promoting activities
• Extra vacation days when you turn 40 and 50
• Employee and leisure association Pulsen
JOB DESCRIPTION
The Signs of Safety specialists will work in their own team and have two main assignments:
• Safety Planner - active co-worker to the responsible social worker with methodological responsibility for Signs of Safety.
• Home-based Coordinator for outpatient assignments as an operational coordinator in placement-related and high-intensity cases using Signs of Safety as the methodology.
Both assignments involve close collaboration with families, treatment providers, social workers, and other professionals, focusing on relationship-building, mobilizing the private and professional network, and creating understanding and self-determination for the family, as well as safety and stability for the child or young person. Work takes place in families' homes, in our facilities, or in other actors' arenas.
As a Signs of Safety specialist, you will have in-depth knowledge of the tools and approaches of Signs of Safety. The role entails, in addition to the two main assignments:
• Maintaining in-depth and updated knowledge of the tools included in Signs of Safety.
• Ensuring that the tools and approaches of Signs of Safety are used correctly and consistently, and that the department's collaboration routines regarding Signs of Safety are followed in the cases where the Signs of Safety specialist is involved.
• Providing support and guidance to social workers and other professionals in the department in the use of Signs of Safety.
• Being an internal trainer in Signs of Safety.
• Convening the department's Signs of Safety coaches, leading workshops, and contributing to the implementation and development of the department's Signs of Safety work at the request of management.
Since the role is new in the department, you and your colleagues will help shape the team and the role in the way needed to achieve the goals.
QUALIFICATIONS
Who are you? We are looking for someone eager to embrace the methodology of Signs of Safety fully, to have it as your main instrument, and to become highly skilled in this methodology.
You have a degree in social work or another academic degree with a behavioral science foundation that the employer deems equivalent. To be considered for the position, you must have several years of experience working with children, youth, and families as a social worker within public authority or as a family therapist. You should also have basic training in Signs of Safety and have worked with the practical methods. Experience with network meetings, either as a tool in your role as a social worker/family therapist or as a meeting leader, is an advantage.
Significant personal maturity and good pedagogical skills are required. If you are someone who excels at drawing out people's willingness to change and can see the developmental potential in individuals and families, you are the right person for the job. You are structured, proactive, flexible, and persistent, with a well-developed ability to create good collaborations with both families and partners. You can easily shift focus to concentrate efforts where they are most needed for the day and can maintain structure and keep the goal in sight in demanding situations. Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability.
You will have access to existing