Vacant job

Your Responsibilities

We are looking for summer substitutes as case officers for the department of assistance and fees.

You will be part of a well-functioning team. As a case officer, you will work with authority exercises. This means investigating needs, making decisions, and following up on granted services. Daily work includes documentation, individual meetings, and collaboration with other professionals, relatives, and external actors.

The position requires the ability to manage multiple individual cases of varying complexity simultaneously. Your tasks include home visits, making decisions, writing reports, documenting, and following up in regular housing.

Your Qualifications

We are looking for someone with a degree in social work or an equivalent higher education where social law (30 HP) is included. We would like you to attach your degree certificate from the social work program with your application. It is desirable that you have experience in authority exercises. You should also be updated on applicable regulations and value frameworks within the area of work.

You must have a driver's license for a manually shifted car, as part of your working hours will be spent at clients' homes or in hospitals.

The work involves extensive documentation, which requires good computer skills and the ability to use and take advantage of various digital tools. It is an advantage if you have worked in Lifecare and have knowledge of the National Board of Health and Welfare's investigation model IBIC.

As a person, you show interest and understanding for the clients you meet and work towards good communication and collaboration with colleagues, relatives, and other professionals working around the client. Therefore, you have a good ability to express yourself well in the Swedish language, both spoken and written.

The work requires you to be structured and have the ability to complete your tasks. In your working method, you are solution-focused with the ability to sort and prioritize your tasks both in the short and long term. In the role of case officer, you need to have an independent working method with a good ability to organize and prioritize your work effectively. Furthermore, you are flexible and decisive, adapting to changing circumstances and driving processes in a goal-oriented manner.

As the work involves contacts with many partners, you need to have very good collaboration skills. A friendly and pedagogical way of conveying information for the case officer process and thus the role of case officer is fundamental. You need to have a service-oriented attitude, but despite this, you have no problem making and communicating unfavorable decisions.

Recruitment is ongoing.

Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability.

Other Information

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process at Halmstad Municipality and to enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to apply in Grade/Varbi and not via email or paper format.

We value the qualities that a balanced age and gender distribution as well as ethnic and cultural diversity bring to the organization. Therefore, we welcome applicants who contribute to this.

Before employment, you need to show that you have the right to work, as required by the Aliens Ordinance. You do this by proving your citizenship in the EU/EES or Switzerland through a passport, national ID card, or personal certificate together with an identity document. If you cannot do this, you need to present a work permit or show that you are exempt from the requirement for a work permit.

To be considered for employment, we would like you to present an extract from the criminal record. Order an extract from the police's website with your BankID. Open the e-service and order - "Extract to check your own information in the criminal record". The extract will be sent to your mailbox and must be brought in an unopened envelope and presented during the recruitment process.

We kindly decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this advertisement.

The position will be filled on the condition that it is not claimed by surplus staff.

When you work in Halmstad Municipality, you create meaning by shaping, strengthening, and enriching others' everyday lives - whoever you are. With us, collaboration, balance, and the opportunity to develop as both a professional and a person are important - we are the workplace where you get more out of life! Read more about us here (https://www.halmstad.se/intro).