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Youth Social Worker

South HollandHybrid28 hours/week<3months

Make a difference for children and families, every day. This role as a youth social worker focuses on strengthening families and offers a lot of variety and collaboration.

What you will do.

  • You will work in a multidisciplinary team and be an important link in the lives of families needing temporary support.
  • You will provide short-term assistance and, together with the family and their network, assess what is needed for them to become self-reliant again.
  • The requests for help are as diverse as your workday, ranging from helping a child develop social skills to supporting parents with parenting issues.
  • As a school contact person, you will collaborate with internal supervisors and hold office hours at school for parents and children.
  • You will work in a solution-oriented and systemic manner, always with one goal in mind: increasing self-confidence, resilience, and independence.
  • The team is part of a cooperative where various care providers offer their expertise in youth, mental health, intellectual disabilities, and finance.
  • Weekly case consultations to link each care request to the appropriate helper.

Profile

  • A higher professional education (HBO) diploma (e.g., Social Work, SPH, or Pedagogy).
  • A valid SKJ registration.
  • Affinity with youth, families, and parenting issues.
  • Knowledge of and experience with education and general practitioners.
  • Knowledge of and affinity with different cultures and multilingualism and/or a non-Western background is a valuable asset for this position.
  • You are empathetic, ask the right questions, and quickly build trust.
  • You easily switch between different situations and collaboration partners.
  • You think in terms of solutions, prevention, and development.

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