One thing is certain. With us, you make a difference. We are the teacher who makes your little brother read his first words and the after-school staff who make you laugh after school. We are the childminder who makes someone grow every day and the librarian who brings literature close. Together we fight for knowledge, for the creation of meaning and for the fun everyday life of children and young people. There is something beautiful in that. Do you also want to work for the future in Kiruna municipality? Come and be part of the community at the culture and education administration. Kiruna municipality chooses to invest in preventive and early interventions for our children and students with the aim of promoting good school attendance. The school social team is a new activity within the school and social services with the aim of promoting children's and students' safety, participation and opportunity to succeed in their schooling. The target group will be preschool to grade 3. The team consists of a representative from the school and a representative from the social services. The school social team is responsible for building bridges between home, social services and preschool/school. The aim is to enable the preschool/school and social services to work together to strengthen the conditions for children and pupils to achieve their educational goals, create a calm and safe environment, increase pupils' attendance at school and provide support to break unfavorable developments. The team has a multidisciplinary approach where social services can assist with preventive and confidence-building work in preschool/school. School social teams can offer support to guardians and facilitate communication and cooperation between guardians and other actors around the individual child/student. We look forward to hearing from you! DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES -Collaborate with guardians, social services, preschool/school staff, student health and other functions. -Timely identification of children and pupils in need of support, in dialog with guardians and preschool/school. -Contribute the preschool/school's expertise in children and families to preventive work. Provide advice, support and short-term interventions directly to children, pupils and their guardians. -If necessary, motivate and guide to the regular efforts of the social services. -Monitor and initiate interventions to groups of guardians -Participate in and lead collaboration meetings with student health services, social services, preschool/school and other actors. -Document and follow up implemented interventions according to applicable laws and guidelines. -Actively contribute to establishing, developing and shaping the working methods and practices of the school social team. QUALIFICATIONS As a counselor in the school social team, relevant training in psychosocial work is desired. Examples of relevant training in psychosocial work are social worker training/social worker degree, psychologist training/psychology degree, behavioral science training/behavioral scientist, human resources science training/personnel scientist, sociology, social psychology and social pedagogy training. We would like you to have experience of working in preschool/school or the children and young people's area of social services. Good knowledge of the Social Services Act (SoL), the School Act and confidentiality legislation is an advantage. Experience of collaboration between preschool/school, social services and other actors. We would like to see that you as a person have with you: - Good cooperation skills and are communicative. - Have a good ability to create good relationships - Committed to developing preventive work for children and young people. - Flexible and solution-oriented - Independent and initiative-taking The curator in the school social team will be organized under the Culture and Education Administration, but the daily work takes place in close connection with the home and preschool/school. The school social team will have its common workplace in connection with the Open Care and Family Center. The team will be provided with relevant supervision. We place great emphasis on personal suitability. B-driving license is a requirement. Interviews may take place during the application period. Criminal record: As a result of the law on suitability checks, you must be able to produce an extract from the police criminal record upon employment. Order one directly when you submit your application, via the link https://polisen.se/belastningsregistret?mtm_campaign=utdrag&mtm_kwd=post0623 OTHER To work with us, you must share Kiruna municipality's common values where respect, responsibility and collaboration are the key words. We offer a pleasant working environment and stimulating tasks and that you as an employee get a good balance between work and leisure. We have many different benefits where you as an employee can train free of charge at various training facilities up to SEK 5000 / year, we have cabins in the mountains that you can rent, we offer the opportunity to exchange salary for days off. We strive for gender balance and see diversity as a strength, we welcome employees with different backgrounds and work to ensure that our workplaces are accessible to everyone. Kiruna municipality sees full-time as a right and part-time as an opportunity. It is an advantage if you have knowledge of Finnish, Sami and/or Meänkieli as Kiruna municipality is an administrative area for these languages. Kiruna municipality has made media choices for this recruitment and therefore refrains from contacting advertisement sellers or other sellers of recruitment services.