For a vibrant Kiruna. One thing is certain. With us, you make a difference. We are Kiruna, we say. We are the caregiver who holds old mom's hand and the teacher who makes little brother read his first words. We are the childminder who makes someone grow every day and the social worker who does what it takes to change lives. We are the personal assistant who gives freedom and the librarian who brings literature close. We are the home support workers who drive to villages in blizzards like the midnight sun to be there. We are hundreds of skills, thousands of people and generations of experience who together safeguard, nurture, inspire, teach, save lives, innovate, move cities, stand up for each other and care for people. With pride and care. From mountains to cities. Today and tomorrow for a living Kiruna. There is something beautiful in that. Do you also want to work for life, people and the future in Kiruna municipality? Do you want to create value and make a real difference for what is important? The Social Administration's mission is to meet people's need for security. The administration must work to ensure that the municipality's residents receive social care in various forms and with a special responsibility to safeguard the needs and interests of vulnerable groups. We constantly strive for good quality that benefits the users of our services. Open care works to ensure that children and young people have safe and stable growing conditions and that adults receive the support they need. We work to provide individually tailored support based on the individual's needs and aimed at contributing to an improved life situation. We also focus on preventive measures with close collaboration between individuals, families and their networks. Internal and external collaboration are natural elements of everyday work, as well as participation in active development work. We look forward to hearing from you! WORK TASKS As a therapist, you are part of a team of 12 therapists, with the professional groups of social workers, social educators, sociologists, treatment educators and alcohol and drug therapists. As a therapist, you will work in a supportive and therapeutic manner with the aim of helping people in difficult situations to independent life. Your assignment as a therapist will be working with young people and adults with substance use and addiction problems, with family members and with domestic violence. This is based on assignments from investigating social workers. The goal is to increase protective factors and reduce risk factors. We use evidence-based methods and proven experience. The content of the treatment work is individually tailored and shaped together with the individual and any network. The work is carried out both independently and together with other therapists and will, if necessary, be carried out outside office hours. Rotation throughout the organization is a prerequisite. QUALIFICATIONS We are looking for you who are a social worker, alcohol and drug therapist, treatment educator or equivalent education that the employer considers equivalent. It is an advantage if you have good knowledge and experience of supportive and treatment work and that you are trained in relevant treatment and mapping models. We expect you to be able to express yourself and communicate well in speech and writing. Your role requires you to have good interpersonal skills as well as the ability to work independently and in a structured manner. The work also requires flexibility and the ability to deal with unforeseen situations. As a person, you are calm, stable and trustworthy with the ability to build and maintain good relationships. Accuracy in handling and good treatment based on strengthening the individual's own ability are also important qualities. Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability. A B driving license is a requirement. Criminal record: Before any employment, you must present an extract from the criminal record from an unopened envelope. You apply for it on the police website: https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/kontrollera-dina-uppgifter-i-belastningsregistret/ 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.