Description of place of work:

Gjøvik og Land barneverntjeneste has a vacancy for 4 x 100% permanent positions in the Investigation and Follow-up Department.

Gjøvik og Land barneverntjeneste is an inter-municipal child welfare service with Gjøvik as the host municipality. The service is responsible for municipal child welfare services in Gjøvik, Nordre Land and Søndre Land municipalities. We are organized as a service in the upbringing sector together with school, kindergarten and youth, health and coping. The service is based in Gjøvik and has meeting rooms in Nordre and Søndre Land municipalities. The service currently consists of around 60 employees.

The child welfare service must ensure that children and young people living in conditions that can harm their health and development receive the necessary help, care and protection at the right time. This means that children and families receive help that works, and that they encounter security, love, understanding and appropriate services. The child welfare service is facing new challenges and tasks in line with the child welfare reform and the new Child Welfare Act, and we are working actively to meet these both internally and in collaboration with other services.

The service is divided into subject-specific departments, respectively reception and child protection, investigation and follow-up, specialized child welfare measures, care and aftercare. We are now in the process of developing an organization for further specialization and competence development in more subject-specific areas in the service. In addition, the service has good staff and support functions. We also operate Gjøvik's inter-municipal child protection service for the municipalities of Gjøvik, Nordre and Søndre Land, Østre and Vestre Toten and Gran, as well as the supervisor scheme for the GLT region.

The Investigation and Follow-up Department has one business manager with responsibility for personnel, finance and subjects, three subject managers with delegated subject responsibility and responsibility for professional follow-up of each team and 25 contact persons distributed across the three teams. We have weekly department and team meetings, as well as monthly joint meetings for the entire service.

We are in a continuous process towards better child protection and are now looking for four employees who want to join us in this work. We want you who are forward-looking and committed to the job with a desire to help make a difference for children and young people.

Tasks:

• Case processing in accordance with the Child Welfare Services Act, including follow-up of children, young people and their families
• Investigations in accordance with the Child Welfare Services Act, child welfare mapping and investigation work
• Implementation and follow-up of assistance measures in accordance with the Child Welfare Services Act.
• Involve and be an active participant in internal collaboration
• Participate in the service's development work to establish an open and accessible child welfare service and contribute to skills development
• Party representative in child welfare and health committees and other legal bodies when needed
• Contribute to a collaborative culture that ensures good interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral participation

Qualifications:

• Child welfare educator or social worker
• Other bachelor's/master's degree with relevant practical experience may be of interest
• Experience from municipal child welfare services is desirable
• Relevant further education is desirable
• Competence and/or experience in the use of digital tools and work processes, Modulus
• Good relationship skills
• Personal suitability is greatly emphasized
• Driver's license required
• Approved police certificate

Personal qualities:

• High degree of ability and willingness to work independently
• Good communication skills and good communication skills
• Ability for professional innovation and creativity
• Ability for structured and systematic work
• Strong work capacity and flexibility in relation to to work tasks and working hours
• Good written presentation skills
• Ability and willingness to cooperate with a high degree of independent work
• Some evening work with evening supplements must be expected in connection with certain tasks that cannot be solved during the day.

We can offer:

• Exciting opportunity to help further develop an inter-municipal child welfare service in Gjøvik and Land municipalities
• Be part of a rich professional environment in Innland's largest child welfare service
• Good routines for new employees with a sponsor and mentor scheme as well as weekly guidance with the subject manager
• Individual guidance with the subject manager every two weeks for all employees
• Committed colleagues
• An exciting and eventful working day, inclusive and good working environment with good opportunities to influence and develop your own working day
• Flexible working hours with opportunities to work day and evening, the working day is flexible in terms of performing work tasks
• Salary according to education and experience
• Good insurance and pension schemes
• Dispose of the service's company cars

Exemption from disclosure must be justified:

Gjøvik municipality practices more openness, cf. section 11 of the Freedom of Information Act. This means that all applicants are listed on the public list of applicants.

Special circumstances must exist in order to be granted an exemption, cf. Section 25 of the Freedom of Information Act.

Applications must be submitted:

All applications must be submitted electronically via our application system.

We want a diverse work environment and encourage all qualified applicants to apply regardless of gender, ethnic background, religion, disability, age and sexual orientation.