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The Social and Labor Market Administration exists for the residents of Mölndal, providing support and interventions to achieve an independent life and security. You will join a modern, curious, and development-oriented administration with about 240 employees. We are moving towards a process-oriented working method where the user is in focus.

The Housing Unit has a collective mission for housing issues, which involves both authority exercise and execution assignments, linked to the social services' responsibility for housing procurement and eviction prevention work.

You will be part of an engaged and knowledgeable team of 10 employees. The team includes social workers, housing support workers, and housing coordinators. The work is led by a unit manager who has the support of a senior social worker and a method supervisor.

We have a reasonable workload, close methodological support, and good conditions to perform a legally secure and qualitative job. Through our unit, we have achieved the goal of having a consolidated competence and assessment in the work with assistance for housing. We are proactive in eviction prevention work.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

The unit's work targets a broad group of individuals who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness. However, we are not responsible for housing solutions for individuals needing care and treatment due to dependency issues, extensive psychiatric problems, or criminality.

In your professional role, you will have both an investigative and authority-exercising role, while also having an advisory and outreach function in eviction prevention work. You will investigate and make decisions about the right to assistance for housing, follow up on the granted assistance, and reassess the right to continued assistance. You will place individuals within framework agreements for housing with support but also handle financial assistance for those in structural homelessness.

You will actively work with processes, establish action plans and assignments. You will support individuals towards independence. You will have close cooperation with housing support workers who work with contract follow-ups, housing searches, and housing planning.

Internal and external collaboration is a significant part of your work. This includes external collaboration with landlords and the Enforcement Authority.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone who is a social worker or has another education deemed equivalent by the employer. You have previous work experience in authority exercise within social services, preferably having investigated the right to assistance for housing. You should be interested in and well acquainted with housing issues within social services and have experience working with socially vulnerable individuals. You are accustomed to documenting and have an easy time expressing yourself verbally and in writing. Experience with the data support system Treserva is an advantage.

You are a structured and solution-focused person with the willingness and ability to independently organize your work. At the same time, you are attentive and have a professional approach with the assignment and the user in focus. Since collaboration is an important part, we want you to have a holistic perspective and be skilled at creating and maintaining good relationships with other partners.

As an employee of the city of Mölndal, you will receive a wellness allowance of 2000 SEK/year. We work in office premises where you will share an office with a colleague.

Selection and interviews may take place continuously during the advertising period.

Welcome with your application today!

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