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Mellerud Municipality strives to provide an attractive workplace by ensuring a good working environment with high participation. Our organization is built on openness, honesty, and integrity. For us, secure welfare for all generations and care for each other are two important cornerstones.

We are the small municipality with big opportunities; our operations are characterized by short decision-making paths where you as an employee can truly make a difference with your commitment.

About the workplace and organization
Mellerud and Bengtsfors dare to think outside the box and embark on new paths to solve future competence supply and secure the development work of social services! The municipalities have a joint management and leadership of the social area. Through collaboration, opportunities are created to share both managerial positions and specialist competencies in a way that is beneficial for both municipalities. We work according to the motto “We are at the forefront and have a unique collaboration where the individual is always at the center.” Warm welcome to become part of our team!

Within IFO in Mellerud Municipality, we put knowledge at the center and create opportunities for development in the work. We offer an inclusive working environment and the chance to influence and make a difference. Do you want to be one of us?

We are now developing our reception and investigation unit and expanding our basic staffing
We are now looking for a social worker with a role as an investigation secretary within the authority of social child and youth care.

With expanded basic staffing, we create conditions to develop and meet future needs for a sustainable and knowledge-based social service. We see that with this expansion of basic staffing, we can create conditions for a good working environment in which there will be room for personal development within the assignment.

Bengtsfors and Mellerud municipalities have a joint authority in Mellerud Municipality regarding the reception and investigation unit for children and youth within the Individual and Family Care. The unit is responsible for investigation and follow-up of open care interventions for children, youth, and their families in accordance with the Social Services Act (SoL) and the Act with special provisions on the care of young people (LVU) for both of our municipalities.

We have a well-established collaboration in our Dalsland municipalities with a collaborative family law and foster care unit where we expanded collaboration in 2024 with a child secretary group responsible for follow-up of care in placements outside the home. A cohesive child and youth care in Dalsland for the benefit of children and families is a self-evident ambition.

The unit consists of two workgroups (reception and investigation group) with their own chief social worker, and the unit will have a total of 14 social worker positions. The chief social worker distributes cases and is responsible for daily operational work and provides close work and method supervision. Collaboration with your closest colleagues and their units is of great importance. The municipalities have well-established Open Care Units where our common goal is to offer needs-adapted interventions to avoid placements outside the home.

The tasks involve investigation and processing after incoming reports/applications according to applicable legislation Social Services Act or Act with special provisions on the care of young people (LVU). Other common tasks include preventive work in collaboration with other actors, both internal and external.

What can we offer you?
You will be part of a creative and developing workgroup where everyone contributes their expertise to the development of our operations.

We offer wellness grants, flexible working hours, and vacation exchange. Supervision and continuous professional development are seen as a given!

Qualifications
We are looking for someone with a degree in social work or equivalent education that meets the eligibility requirements to perform certain tasks within social services for children and youth.

The position requires that you have very good knowledge of the legislation SoL, LVU, and other relevant legislation. Previous experience in the field is an advantage.

You have fluent knowledge of Swedish and a very good ability to express yourself in speech and writing.

You need to have a good ability to create and maintain trusting relationships, both in relation to those we meet and in relation to the workgroup and other partners. To handle the various situations that may arise in the work, you also need to be flexible, solution-focused, and enjoy collaborating across organizational boundaries with the client's needs in focus. You are secure as a person and feel comfortable making independent decisions according to the municipality's delegation order and applicable legislation. We will therefore place great importance on personal suitability.

A driving license B is a requirement.

Other information
To ensure the quality of the recruitment process and simplify communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally and not via email or paper format. Mellerud Municipality applies a smoke-free working time. Selection and interview work may take place continuously during the application period, and we may call for an interview before the application deadline. If necessary, a probationary employment may be applied. In Mellerud Municipality, individual salary setting is applied, therefore please state your salary expectations in your application.

For us, it is important to embrace diversity and meet people with respect regardless of age, gender, religion, or ethnic background. As an employer, we are always open to harnessing new competencies.
Warm welcome with your application!