Jokkmokk is a municipality with an eye on the future! We are a place where community and responsibility are at the center, where your skills and ideas can be part of shaping the way forward. If you value a high quality of life with proximity to both nature and community, Jokkmokk offers a rich cultural life and affordable leisure opportunities to experience. Welcome to a municipality that combines drive and helpfulness - here you can help create something new. With a new investment in our Individual and Family Care (IFO), we are building an organization that is equipped to meet both today's and tomorrow's challenges. And you have the opportunity to help shape it! We have a vision to create an IFO organization that not only meets but exceeds the requirements of the new Social Services Act. Our ambitions go beyond the minimum requirements of the law. We strive to build a business that puts the actual needs of the individual at the center and offers tailor-made solutions for each individual citizen. We offer a range of benefits, some of which are: - 30-hour working week. We are carrying out a six-month project to reduce working hours, with the aim of creating a more sustainable working environment and increasing accessibility for the public. If the project is successful, the ambition is to make it permanent. - Wellness allowance - Possibility to apply for vacation exchange - A dynamic and development-oriented work environment in a small municipality with short decision-making paths. - Opportunity to work broadly and develop in several areas of social work - Support and cooperation from other professions within the municipality - Good opportunities for skills development and further training We are an innovative unit with the attitude that the work environment is at its best when you have a balance between private life and work life. That's why flexibility and feedback are important ways of working for us. Here we are solution-focused! WORK TASKS As a therapist with us, you work broadly within the social services' outpatient care in a varied role where you meet different target groups and needs. The work includes both preventive and treatment efforts, from supportive conversations and crisis management to more long-term treatment efforts. The assignment also includes being the convener of the Prevention Council. The role also includes work in family home care, where you participate in the matching and placement of children in close collaboration with the child's social secretary, based on current guidelines. You are responsible for ensuring that family homes receive clear information about the assignment and for providing support, guidance and training adapted to the needs of the child and the family home. The guidance aims to strengthen the family home's ability and create stable placements, and is carried out through conversations, home visits or, if necessary, training initiatives. You plan, follow up and document interventions in collaboration with the child's social worker, with a focus on the child's best interests. The role also includes working preventively through high availability and early intervention. You are responsible for contacts with the child's biological network and can, if necessary, attend visits to create security and contribute to follow-up and planning. QUALIFICATIONS We are looking for you who have a great commitment to social work and who want to be involved and make a difference in people's lives. You enjoy working in a varied role where you meet different types of challenges and see opportunities in working broadly within the social services. You are flexible, collaborative and enjoy working in teams to create the best solutions for our residents. Qualifications - Experience in social change work. - Experience in treatment work with both children, adolescents and adults - Knowledge of different treatment methods and ability to adapt interventions to the needs of individuals and families - Ability to work independently and in teams, and to take own initiatives - Strong empathy and ability to build trusting relationships - B driving license OTHER Jokkmokk municipality strives for gender balance and ethnic and cultural diversity in our operations. Knowledge of the Sami language and culture is seen as an asset. Our core values aim to set out the values that should permeate all activities in Jokkmokk municipality, where our key words are respect, equal value, responsibility, courage, commitment and competence. In order to ensure the quality of our recruitment process and to enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally via the link "Apply here" and not via e-mail or paper format. To staffing, placement and recruitment agencies and to you as a salesperson: We kindly but firmly exclude staffing and recruitment agencies as well as other external actors and vendors from further job advertisements. For this position, you will be required to present a current extract from the criminal record before employment. The extract is ordered by you as an applicant and is left unopened upon request. Selection and interviews are ongoing during the recruitment process. The salary range for this position is between SEK 38 - 42,000/month on a full-time basis. We apply individual salary setting based on your experience and skills. Welcome with your application!