Contact Person for Adults at the Protection Shelter

The Protection Shelter, affiliated with the national association Unizon, is one of Sweden's oldest women's shelters and was founded in 1984. The Protection Shelter is a non-profit, non-political, and non-religious association led by a board, driven by the vision of an equal society free from violence. The association offers qualified support and protection to women, men, and children exposed to violence through its Counseling Clinic, Protected Housing, and Outreach activities. Since March 6, 2025, we have a license for our protected housing from the Inspectorate for Care and Social Services to operate according to Chapter 26, Section 1, Paragraph 1 of the Social Services Act.

In our protected housing, we currently have eight protection apartments that are homely furnished with the possibility of connecting home care services and other adaptations. Our Counseling Clinic provides support and advice to those exposed to violence, their relatives, as well as authorities and professional actors regarding protected identity, domestic violence, honor-related violence, prostitution, and human trafficking with sexual abuse. Adults and children of all sexual orientations and gender identities are welcome here. Pets are also welcome with us.

We work in a close-knit team of seven colleagues where we support and help each other in the daily work at the shelter. We meet, support, and strengthen adults and children in crisis situations, so that those living with us have the best opportunities to live a life free from violence. Working in our team requires a great ability to collaborate, be flexible, take initiative, and also feel secure in making decisions independently—here, no day is the same as another.

Your Role:

As the contact person for adults, you have primary responsibility for the adults placed in the protected housing. We who work here meet our support-seekers based on their needs with quality, warm reception, clarity, and engagement, where we uphold their right to self-determination, while maintaining close cooperation with the placing social services.

Your tasks will therefore be varied and will include the following:

• Have supportive and motivational conversations.

• Establish and follow up on implementation plans based on the care plan.

• Responsibility for ensuring interventions are carried out.

• Send monthly reports to social services.

• Have contact with the placing social services.

• Primary responsibility for ensuring the adult receives home visits.

• Receive placement requests.

• Picking up placements.

• Intake interviews.

• Risk assessments.

• Continuous risk analyses and safety planning.

• Have support conversations with adults (over 18 years old).

• Practical support such as forms, etc.

• Support for support-seekers in contacts with authorities, district courts, etc.

• Manage the support and youth chat.

• Work preventively against violence.

• Supervise authorities.

• Participate in relevant fairs and training sessions.

• Assist our residents based on their needs, which may include cooking, cleaning after moves, and helping residents during moves, which may involve heavy lifting.

• Support other staff where there is a need.

• Participate in collaboration with partners.

• Document according to the Social Services Act.

Qualifications:

Working in protected housing requires commitment, flexibility, and attentiveness. The tasks are varied, and acute situations may arise, requiring you to feel secure in making your own decisions when necessary.

We are therefore looking for you who:

- have at least 2 years of post-secondary education in the area of social/treatment/support pedagogy and/or are a social worker, behavioral scientist, or have other higher education considered equivalent.

- have at least two years of work experience in social work.

- have a Class B driver's license.

- enjoy working both independently and collaborating in a group.

It is meritorious if you have previously worked with those exposed to violence and have experience in support conversations and risk assessments according to FREDA, Sara, and/or Patriark, training in MI, CBT, or similar. Meritorious if you speak Persian, Arabic, Dari, or Urdu.

We who work in the protected housing have a duty of confidentiality according to the Public Access to Information and Secrecy Act and the Social Services Act, and we have a duty to report and provide information. Good knowledge of Swedish in speech and writing is required.

Working Hours:

The working hours are primarily scheduled on weekdays between 8 AM and 6 PM and every sixth/seventh Saturday from 10 AM to 2 PM. In case of acute situations, training sessions, fairs, or new placement requests, evening and weekend work may also occur. The employment includes on-call duty evenings and weekends where you are responsible for the support telephone. On-call duty is distributed among staff according to schedule every sixth/seventh week and is counted in addition to working hours.

We have a collective agreement.

Permanent employment.

The Protection Shelter applies a 6-month probationary period in accordance with the collective agreement upon new employment.

Selection for interviews will occur continuously. Since the housing accommodates both men and women, we welcome both male and female applicants for the position. We place great importance on personal suitability.

Start date: By agreement.

Employment rate: 75%.