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GelderlandHybrid24 hours/week3-6months
A government organization is looking for a temporary social consultant for youth. You are a connector with a heart for youth and family, with an eye for safety, collaboration, and tailor-made solutions.
What you will do.
- First point of contact for young people and their parents.
- Engages in conversation with the resident and their environment to carefully identify the request for help.
- Discovers together with the resident what is truly needed, looks at their own network, and engages specialist help where necessary.
- Develops a future-oriented plan after broad clarification of the request.
- Assesses additional care needs, draws up a decision, and implements it.
- Monitors progress, safeguards goals, and coordinates with the family and involved care providers throughout the process.
- Assesses a child's safety situation, acts according to the reporting code, and collaborates with agencies such as Veilig Thuis or the Council for Child Protection.
- Actively participates in case discussions, network consultations, intervision, and projects that contribute to the further development of the youth team.
- Helps shape work processes for the implementation of the Youth Act.
Profile
- Caring yet firm professional who can stand by the help-seeker and strengthen their capacity to act.
- Can position themselves, confront, and take over control when necessary.
- Moves smoothly in the tension between different interests and remains professional.
- Knows their own limits and sees them as a strength.
- Combines expertise with an inquisitive mind: asks probing questions, looks at the environment and the system in which people live, and seeks the question behind the question.
- Enjoys pioneering and has sufficient self-confidence to work in a dynamic field where not everything is yet fixed.
- Strong communication skills, a connecting attitude, and the ability to signal safety situations and act accordingly.
- A solution-oriented and collaborative mindset.
What they ask
- At least a recognized, completed, and full diploma at HBO (higher professional education) level.
- Valid SKJ registration or the possibility to obtain one.
- Several years of relevant work experience in working with youth and families.
- Current knowledge of the Youth Act (Jeugdwet), compulsion, and coercion.
- Agreement with secondment conditions.
Preferences.
- Knowledge of methodologies and the social map.
- Work experience within municipal government.
Competencies.
- Authority: Makes a strong and reliable first impression on others, maintains it, and acts with impact.
- Empathy: Recognizes the feelings and needs of others and the effect of one's own actions on them; recognizes and investigates the wishes and needs of others and responds to them.
- Listening: Gathers important information from oral communications; gives attention and space to interlocutors; asks probing questions and responds to reactions.
- Process Management: Executes process management.
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