Jokkmokk is a municipality with an eye on the future!

We are a place where community and responsibility are at the center, where your skills and ideas can contribute to shaping the way forward. If you value a high quality of life with close access to both nature and community, Jokkmokk offers a rich cultural life and affordable leisure opportunities to experience.

Welcome to a municipality that combines initiative and helpfulness – here you can be part of creating something new.

Individual and Family Care (IFO)

In Jokkmokk municipality, we are now taking a big step forward to meet the new demands within social services. With a new investment in our Individual and Family Care (IFO), we are building an organization that is equipped to meet both today’s and tomorrow’s challenges. And you have the opportunity to help shape it!

Welcome to Jokkmokk municipality where we together shape a brighter future for all our residents. Do you want to make a difference? Apply today and become part of our team.

We offer a range of benefits, some of which are:

• 30-hour work week. We are conducting a six-month project with reduced working hours aimed at creating a more sustainable work environment and increasing accessibility for the public. If the project goes well, there is an ambition to make this permanent.
• Wellness allowance
• Opportunity to apply for vacation exchange

We are an innovative unit with the belief that the work environment is best when there is a balance between private life and work life. Therefore, flexibility and feedback are important working methods for us. Here we are solution-focused!

STAY-ON INSURANCE

As a newly hired, permanent employee in Jokkmokk municipality for this position, we can offer you a Stay-on Insurance if you meet the following criteria: You must not have previously held a permanent position with the same role. You must be registered as a resident, or register in connection with employment. You must not have received the municipality's scholarship for post-secondary studies.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

As a social worker with us, you will work with the handling of various types of cases within social services, primarily concerning children and youth. You will be responsible for investigation, assessment, decision-making, and follow-up of interventions according to all legal frameworks within social services. With us, you have a reasonable workload that allows for development and social work. Here you don't need to juggle 10 balls at once; if you still want to, there is of course an opportunity to contribute to development and take on increased responsibility.

QUALIFICATIONS

Degree in social work or equivalent education. Knowledge of applicable legislation, primarily SoL, LVU, and LVM.

We are looking for someone who is engaged, responsible, and wants to work broadly within social services. You are flexible and want to work with different cases. What does the word flexible really mean to us? With us, it’s about being able to work across boundaries and help where needed.

OTHER

Jokkmokk municipality strives for gender balance and ethnic and cultural diversity in our operations. Knowledge of the Sami language and Sami culture is seen as an asset. Our values aim to reflect the values that should permeate all operations in Jokkmokk municipality, where our guiding principles are respect, equal value, responsibility, courage, engagement, and competence.

To ensure the quality of our recruitment process and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally via the link "Apply here" and not via email or paper format.

To staffing, placement, and recruitment companies and to you as a seller:

We kindly but firmly decline staffing and recruitment companies as well as other external actors and sellers of additional job advertisements.

The salary range for this position is between 37,000 - 42,000 SEK/month full-time. We apply individual salary setting based on your experience and competence.