Good schooling is an important protective factor in preventing exclusion and ill health. The education administration in Umeå municipality is therefore now taking the initiative to establish a mobile operational team that will work preventively aimed at students in middle school aged 10-12 years who are at risk of problematic school absence, low goal achievement and possible norm-breaking behavior. The team should work outreach and create relationships with students in order to discover, support, prevent, create increased security and well-being. The efforts should involve the student's guardians and ultimately promote school attendance and that students with unfavorable development receive support at an early stage. Do you want to help combat exclusion, mental illness, crime and create a new activity that promotes children and young people's opportunity to complete their schooling? Then this is the job for you! Your work tasks The mobile operational team will consist of two employees who make their efforts after the consent of the student and guardians and on behalf of the principal of the school in question. The team assesses the pupil's needs and draws up an action plan together with the student health team, the pupil and the guardian. If it turns out that the family needs more extensive support, an application/notification is made by the school to the social services' reception unit. The tasks can be, for example, to: being present in the relevant schools to establish relationships with pupils and staff pay attention to and take early action against norm-breaking behavior participating in targeted concern meetings with guardians hold thematic training/information for groups of pupils focusing, for example, on values-based work or increasing confidence in society's support functions, social services and police, etc. social, emotional support for individuals and groups of pupils; support to get to school, for example facilitating dialog between guardians and schools contributing to good cooperation and collaboration with other professionals to make life easier for pupils and parents. Cooperation and collaboration can be within schools, social services, the police, associations and civil society. work to include pupils in leisure activities of various kinds About you We are looking for team members who thrive in a varied and changing environment where no two days are the same. We want you to have training as a social worker / social educator or equivalent. With your educational background, you will complement the other employee hired in the team. You need to have experience in social work with children/young people and guardians. You must also have experience of working closely with or working in schools, have knowledge of school activities, teaching and adaptations. We are looking for you who: have experience in social work with school-age children and young people can work in a structured and systematic way both in daily operational work and in terms of documentation have good relationship-building skills and are confident in conducting different types of conversations with students and guardians have good teamwork skills to achieve success in their work We offer you a meaningful role where you contribute to helping young people reach their full potential committed and knowledgeable colleagues who are driven and focused on the mission of the organization an opportunity to be part of building a new way of working together with others Don't forget to attach your cover letter and CV. As a result of the law on suitability control, an extract from the police's criminal record must be presented upon employment. About Umeå municipality Umeå municipality is the region's largest employer with over 13,000 employees. The municipality has around 440 managers and the operations are divided into eight administrations. Our jobs and our values are based on citizen focus, openness, trust and continuous improvement. Umeå is a cultural city in constant development. To meet the target of 200,000 inhabitants by 2050, we need more people working for growth and welfare. We know that diversity enriches and welcome everyone to apply for jobs with us. Over the next ten years, we will be hiring around a thousand people every year. Do you want to join us? Find out what it's like to live in Umeå here: https://www.umea.se/flytta Umeå municipality is part of three administrative areas for Finnish, Meänkieli and Sami www.umea.se/minoriteter. As an employee of Umeå municipality, you can take advantage of a number of benefits. Take part of our benefits https://umea.se/jobbochforetagande/jobbochpraktik/kommunensomarbetsgivare/varaformaner.4.1b4d24fb1752122eb843bf.html Do you sell ads or offer recruitment support? Please do not contact us about it! We select and contact the companies we work with ourselves.