Vacant job

In Sandviken, the world is always present. Here we feel at home and make each other better.

As an employee of Sandviken municipality, you have one of Sweden's most important jobs. Therefore, it is important for us that you enjoy your work and feel that your contributions are valuable to society. We believe that the way to achieve this is for everyone, whether a manager or an employee, to strive to make each other better. For the best work, we do it together. Through a holistic view, collaboration, dialogue, and by taking advantage of each other's differences.

As an employer and employee, we work together for a long-term and sustainable working life. This, in turn, leads to a successful and developing municipality. When we make each other better – we make Sandviken municipality better!

The Department of Individual and Family Care in Sandviken municipality has a functionally divided organization. Within the department's area of responsibility, there is child and youth care, addiction care, financial assistance, family law, as well as handling alcohol licenses and strategic work in the areas of public health and safety and ANDTS. The department has a well-developed open care for children, young people, and their families, as well as for adults.

The finance unit currently consists of 30 employees. To enable close and active leadership within the unit, in addition to the operations manager, there are also two unit managers and two group leaders. The unit handles financial assistance, housing social contracts, mediation of own funds, and estate administration. We have a well-functioning collaboration with internal and external actors in the labor market sector.

To balance the high demands placed on the profession, the department offers all authority-exercising employees one hour of reflection time per working day.

In addition, we offer you:

• vacation exchange
• annual working hours
• welfare allowance
• health-promoting activities
• extra vacation days when you turn 40 and 50 years old
• the staff and leisure association Pulsen

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

This position encompasses two different assignment branches, namely estate administration and investigation of mediation of own funds and support to the unit's other social workers.

As a social worker responsible for estate administration, you will investigate financial assistance for funeral costs, estate notifications, and provisional management of estates. The position involves authority exercise within the area, and you will handle cases based on the Social Services Act, the Inheritance Code, and the Burial Act. In your work, you will have contact with relatives of the deceased as well as other authorities and organizations that have active roles in connection with deaths, family investigations, estate management, and funerals. The work is both practical and administrative in nature.

As a social worker for mediation of own funds, you will investigate the right to assistance and have overall responsibility for the intervention. You will work closely with the unit's financial administrators who are responsible for carrying out the intervention. You will be responsible for executing the intervention of mediation of own funds, depositing money, and other administrative tasks in the absence of the financial administrator. Your work also includes supporting the unit's other social workers to facilitate their work. The assignment includes collaboration with our partners, both internally and externally.

We hope you want to be part of our unit and develop together with us!

QUALIFICATIONS

You have a degree in social work or another higher education that we consider equivalent. Experience in authority exercise within financial assistance and estate administration is meritorious.

We place great emphasis on your personal qualities. We expect you to be an empathetic and secure person with the ability to reflect. The work requires that you find it easy to build relationships and have the ability to meet people in grief and vulnerable situations in a good way. To fulfill your job responsibilities, it is a prerequisite that you have a good ability to express yourself in speech and writing, that you are flexible, have good structure, and the ability to prioritize which tasks need to be done both in the short term and long term.

As travel is involved in the position, you need to have a B driver's license.

OTHER

In this recruitment, we will apply continuous selection for interviews, so do not hesitate to submit your application!

Are you curious to learn more about Sandviken municipality as an employer and what it is like to work with us? Please visit our pages: https://sandviken.se/arbete-och-karriar (https://sandviken.se/arbete-och-karriar)

Do you want to know what it is like to live, work, and thrive in Sandviken municipality? Perhaps you are considering moving to Sandviken? We have gathered information specifically for you on our pages: https://sandviken.se/hellosandviken (https://sandviken.se/hellosandviken)

If you have a protected identity, we ask you not to submit your application digitally via our recruitment system. More information on how to proceed instead can be found at www.sandviken.se/ledigajobb (http://www.sandviken.se/ledigajobb)