Job Advertisement: Developer in Social Services

Surahammar Municipality is a community in transition. Here, we have proximity to both countryside and city. There is a drive to grow, change, and develop. That is why it is so exciting to work here. With us, you will be part of a humble culture where we help each other and take advantage of each other's knowledge, differences, and experiences. The work is often varied, sometimes challenging, and always meaningful. Welcome!

The Social Services consist of teams within adult, child, youth, and family services, financial support, assistance, foster care, and community psychiatry. With us, you will be part of a team with skilled, engaged, and proud colleagues where everyone can contribute to the goal and actively share and develop knowledge together. Together, we ensure a fair and good distribution of our tasks and that our work environment is good, as we work towards common goals. You will have a challenging and rewarding job where you can make a difference in people's everyday lives.

The benefit of working in Social Services is that you will receive individual professional development, wellness grants, the opportunity for free parking, proximity to train and bus stations just a stone's throw from the social office, and of course, fantastic colleagues.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

The role of the developer is to provide expert and professional support to the social board, management, and to handle cases within the social administration's area of operation. Your tasks will also include quality assurance and development of issues within the social board, such as systematic quality work, lex Sarah investigations, and data protection coordination. You will work closely with the management team within the administration and be involved in self-assessment based on the authority's exercise of power within Social Services. You will establish guidelines and routines and implement these in the operations.

You will also work on the transition to a new sustainable social service, coordinating and leading the administration's work by:

Planning, leading, implementing, and following up on the changes carried out locally
Internally communicating ongoing work in the municipality, county, and nationally
Being a link between the social administration and the elderly administration
Representing at conferences, workshops, and cross-county networks
Developing a model for the municipality's first and second line social services and creating a joint strategy and action plan for future work

QUALIFICATIONS

You have a degree in social work or another qualification that the employer deems equivalent. Experience in strategic and overarching levels of work is an advantage.

You should have worked within one or more of the areas included in social services. You should also have experience in project management, preferably at an overarching level. Experience in coordinating social service issues and development work in the area is advantageous. We prefer that you are pedagogical and experienced in conveying knowledge and providing support in implementation work.

You should be able to work independently, structured, and solution-focused with the assignment. You need to have a good ability to support and guide as well as to collaborate, motivate, and engage managers and employees in the development work. Through strategic and analytical thinking, you identify needs and areas for development. You work process-oriented and innovatively when leading the work regarding the transition to a new sustainable social service. In this work, you need to collaborate with several operations within the administration but also across administrative boundaries. We also see it as important that you have an interest in working strategically as well as with more operational tasks. You need to have good oral and written communication skills.

We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

The position is organizationally placed directly under the operationally responsible manager for Individuals and Families.