Senior Social Worker to Lerum Municipality

Lerum Municipality is known for its scenic locations with lakes and forests. The municipality has 3,200 employees and 43,000 residents but expects to grow significantly in the coming years. Lerum is only a 20-minute commute from Gothenburg and is currently facing a development-intensive period with many exciting projects underway, ranging from schools to housing. The municipality works to ensure good service, high welfare, and a flourishing business climate.

Recently, Dagens Samhälle named Lerum the winner in the category of metropolitan municipalities (2025) - an award based on a comprehensive comparison of 290 Swedish municipalities in areas such as education, healthcare, economy, culture and leisure, attractiveness, business, and future factors like digitalization and civil preparedness. We are now a Super Municipality!

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

We are looking for a new employee who wants to work as a Senior Social Worker in our children and youth/adult group within the Authority for Functional Support. The current Senior Social Worker is moving on to an internal position as unit manager, which gives you the opportunity to take over an important and developing role in the organization.

As a Senior Social Worker, you are the first-line supervisor and have a central role in the daily work of the unit. You lead and distribute work within the team, guide employees, and ensure that the operations are conducted in accordance with applicable legislation and that established goals, routines, and guidelines are followed.

You actively work to ensure legal certainty, quality, and cost-effectiveness in decisions and interventions. Through continuous monitoring of the external environment, you contribute to ensuring that the operations are based on current knowledge and proven experience.

Your responsibilities include:

• Leading, distributing, and following up the work in the team
• Providing methodological guidance, both individually and in groups, tailored to employees' skills and experience
• Ensuring legally secure, quality-assured, and cost-effective decisions and interventions
• Contributing to organizational development as well as the development of working methods, methods, follow-up, and documentation
• Promoting and participating in collaboration, both internally and externally
• Administrative tasks such as reporting unexecuted decisions to IVO and conducting self-checks
• Participating in the introduction of new employees together with other management

You work closely with the unit manager, the other Senior Social Worker, and other employees to follow up on the unit's goals and results.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone who has:

• A degree in social work or another qualification deemed equivalent.
• Solid experience in authority operations within functional support, preferably with experience in a supervisory role, such as Senior Social Worker.
• A valid driver's license as the job may involve travel.

It is an advantage if you have:

• Experience with the operational system Treserva.

We believe that you are a person who:

• Is good at leading and developing employees through individually tailored support.
• Is pedagogical with the ability to convey knowledge clearly.
• Can remain calm and act objectively in difficult situations.
• Is engaged and driven with the ability to work with a holistic perspective.
• Is good at prioritizing, being meticulous, and analytical in your work.
• Is very good at expressing yourself in speech and writing.

Great importance will be placed on personal suitability for the role.

Interviews will begin during the application period, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

OTHER

The development in Lerum Municipality should be sustainable, and our governance is based on the global goals of Agenda 2030.

We believe that our differences enrich and positively develop the individual, the organization, and society. As an employer, Lerum Municipality actively works for equality and diversity and against all forms of discrimination and degrading treatment.

We care about a good work environment where you can combine work and leisure. As an employee with us, you will have access to a range of benefits, such as wellness grants and employee welfare programs. Read more about our employee benefits here: https://lerum.se/dina-formaner (https://lerum.se/dina-formaner)

As an employee of Lerum Municipality, there may be a requirement to use personal Bank-ID in the service for legitimization in, for example, system login or other verification.

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process, we ask you to submit your application via this link, and not via email or paper format.

Warm welcome with your application!

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