Social Worker for the Hjorten Support Housing

Have you just graduated with a degree in social work and are looking for a meaningful and developing job, or are you already a social worker wanting to try working with individualized psychosocial support through motivational interviewing? We are now looking for a social worker for a temporary position at the Hjorten support housing!

About the position

As a social worker at Hjorten, you will work in a team with treatment assistants, group leaders, and a fellow social worker at Hjortronet. The target group at Hjorten is broad and consists of both homeless adult women and men who cannot obtain their own housing on the regular housing market. Most clients have a documented dependency issue, which may involve meetings with individuals in an affected state. The purpose of the operation is to provide temporary support housing until the client achieves the goal for another housing arrangement. The assignment is to work with individualized psychosocial support through motivational interviewing, where the clients' motivation levels vary.

Examples of tasks:

• establish implementation plans based on the care plan that the client has
• write journal notes
• have primary responsibility for contacts with clients and other stakeholders/providers
• conduct structured psychosocial support conversations
• participate in the work with the residents' budget and debt situation
• be a knowledge driver in the process work with clients

About the workplace

The target group for the operation is homeless adults who cannot obtain their own housing on the regular housing market. Those living in the support housing have not made a decision to live sober and drug-free, which may involve meetings with individuals in an affected state. The purpose of the operation is to provide temporary support housing until the client achieves the goal for another housing arrangement.

The operation has several different focuses, including work with vulnerable women, which is a significant part of the job. The staff at Hjorten consists of a group leader, six treatment assistants, and one social worker.

Read more about what it is like to work in Örebro municipality at www.orebro.se/jobb (http://www.orebro.se/jobb).

Qualifications

You can be described as a calm and stable person with an interest, willingness, and ability to help others. You are secure in yourself and attentive in your interactions with others. You prefer to work in a team with shared responsibility but can also act independently and drive the work forward in a structured manner. You possess the ability to understand someone else's perspective or situation without taking over their feelings. You master the Swedish language in a way that allows you to clearly adapt how you convey your message to the recipient and can document in the manner required by the operation. The workplace can sometimes be perceived as stressful as many parallel processes occur simultaneously, so you should be a person who can handle stress well.

We place great importance on personal suitability.

Requirements:

• degree in social work (210 credits)
• driver's license for manual transmission
• good computer skills

Meritorious:

• practical documented work experience in social work within psychosocial support regarding dependency
• experience working with cases of violence in close relationships
• experience working with vulnerable women
• MI training
• documentation experience in Procapita or other equivalent documentation tools

Scope and start date

Employment type: temporary position

Employment rate: 100%

Start date: February 3rd or by agreement - until May 3rd with the possibility of extension

Number of positions: 1

Other information

Interviews may be conducted digitally. You can read more about our digital interviews and how to prepare at orebro.se/jobb/digitalaintervjuer (http://orebro.se/jobb/digitalaintervjuer).

Application

The application deadline is January 21st

Warm welcome with your application!

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