Social Worker at the Health and Care Administration

In the city of Mölndal, we are proud to have Sweden's most important jobs where we together create the best possible everyday life for our citizens. With knowledge, courage, and creativity, we develop our operations and contribute to making Mölndal an even better place to live and work. Welcome to make a difference in people's everyday lives every day!

The Health and Care Administration, with its approximately 1500 employees, is one of the administrations in the city of Mölndal and encompasses elderly care, support for people with disabilities, and health care.

The unit consists of 13 social workers, divided into three groups: children, adults, and assistance group, along with two senior social workers. The position is within the adult group, but we work flexibly and consider the whole, which means that you may also need to work with child cases when necessary.

The unit is led by a unit manager, and together we work in accordance with current legislation to inform, investigate, assess, and make decisions about interventions according to LSS and SoL. We actively work to continuously develop our work by maintaining high legal security, having good discussions, and learning from each other.

RESPONSIBILITIES

In the role of social worker, you will meet clients and their relatives as well as several different professional groups surrounding the client. You will work in accordance with applicable legislation to inform, investigate, assess, make decisions, and follow up on interventions according to LSS and/or SoL. Your assignment will include documentation, development work, and collaboration with both internal and external actors. You will also contribute to the continued development of the operation and to creating a good working environment.

To thrive in this role, it is important that you enjoy actively participating in work discussions, are independent, used to taking your own initiatives, and sharing responsibility for the team's tasks and the work environment.

We are a large group that enjoys working together and values our good work climate, supporting each other. With us, you will have a stimulating and responsible job with the opportunity to influence the unit's development. We offer a well-structured introduction, professional development, and method and process guidance.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone with a degree in social work or another education that can be deemed equivalent by the employer. You have experience in working with public authority, preferably within disability services, and possess good legal knowledge of applicable legislation, LSS, SoL, and FL. We would also like you to have experience with Treserva, IBIC, SAMSA, and AKK.

You take responsibility for your and the shared tasks with the best interests of the operation/clients in focus, complete what you have started, and ensure that the work is done correctly. As a person, you show respect and consideration for those you meet in your professional role.

You have the ability to work together with others to perform tasks and achieve goals, understand the common mission, act accordingly, and contribute to the whole. We also see that you recognize opportunities for change and create situations where new ideas and proposals can develop. It is important that you can work effectively under stress, balance different demands, and remain calm in difficult situations.

You have very good knowledge of Swedish in both spoken and written form.

A B driver's license is desired as travel in the job occurs.

The employment is a parental leave replacement with the possibility of extension.

Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability.

We welcome your application today!

OTHER

In this recruitment process, we work with ongoing selection, and you may be contacted before the application deadline.

Within the Health and Care Administration, there is active work to offer employees the desired level of employment to reduce involuntary part-time positions. In cases where the advertisement concerns a part-time position, our ambition is to eventually provide the opportunity for increased employment levels.

In recruitment, we consider diversity perspectives to better reflect our operations.

If you need help applying for the position, please contact customer service at 0771-693 693.

Before a possible employment, an acceptable extract from the police criminal record must be presented if the position involves client or patient-related work. We will also check citizenship. If you are not a citizen of Sweden, the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, you must be able to present a valid residence/work permit or prove that you are exempt from the requirement to have a work permit.

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