A municipal organization is looking for a professional to fill a combined role with quality tasks and behavioral scientist tasks within the Youth & Education department. The role combines substantive expertise in complex cases with cost-conscious work, quality improvement, and process optimization, aimed at providing high-quality, effective, and affordable youth care.
What you will do.
- Actively contribute to keeping youth care affordable by focusing on efficiency, cost awareness, and results-oriented work.
- Collaborate with policy advisors, contract management, IT, legal affairs, and other internal and external partners to further strengthen the quality of services.
- Identify developments in policy, legislation, and regulations and translate them into implementation.
- Initiate, implement, and secure improvement and change processes within youth care.
- Advise on process improvement, quality assurance, and efficient work processes.
- Coordinate and manage projects, pilots, and working methods.
- Coach, guide, and advise youth consultants on complex cases and child safety.
- Support analysis, decision-making, and determining appropriate next steps and interventions.
- Provide treatment and action advice and review reports and perspective plans.
- Guide case discussions.
- Assess the necessity of specialized youth care and advise on appropriate assistance.
- Contribute to normalization, provide substantive advice regarding the phasing out and closing of assistance trajectories where possible.
- Identify substantive developments and bottlenecks within youth care and translate these into improvements in working methods and methodologies.
Profile
You are a strong and connecting professional with substantive expertise in youth care. You combine this with experience in cost savings, quality improvement, process optimization, and advice within the social domain. You feel at home at the intersection of content, quality, policy, and implementation and know how to involve professionals, management, and collaboration partners in changes and complex issues.
What they ask
- At least a completed academic degree in psychology or orthopedagogy.
- At least 2 years of work experience as a Behavioral Scientist, gained in the past 4 years.
- In possession of a valid SKJ Registration.
Preferences.
- Work experience with managing cost (savings), gained in the past 4 years.
- At least 2 years of work experience within the implementation of youth care, gained in the past 10 years.
- Experience working within a municipal organization in the past 4 years.
Competencies.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Persuasiveness and advisory skills.
- Politically and administratively sensitive.
- Empathy combined with the ability to guide, reflect, and address.
- Reliable, accurate, and focused on integral collaboration.
- Independent, proactive, and results-oriented.
- Positive attitude and able to initiate and guide changes.
- Connecting, coaching, and strong communication skills.
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