Social Worker at Strängnäs Municipality

Are you a driven and knowledgeable social worker with experience in authority exercise and investigative work? Are you looking for new challenges? Then this could be the job for you!

Our area of operation belongs to the Social Office and the Adult Support and Intervention unit, where we work with both authority exercise, support, and treatment. We are 15 employees consisting of four social workers, six therapists, one treatment assistant, two family consultants, one coordinator, and one housing secretary.

We are a unit that handles issues related to addiction, domestic violence, and dropouts. Here we manage the entire chain from reception, investigation, and intervention. You will have great opportunities to help develop the operations so that we can offer legally secure processes and professional interventions for the benefit of our residents in close collaboration with other units within the municipality. In your daily work, you will have support from your work group, coordinator, and unit manager.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

As a social worker, you will work with the entire chain from receiving and updating cases, investigating needs, making decisions, and following up on interventions according to SoL and LVM. Guiding and advising on what interventions the municipality provides to our citizens without assistance assessment is part of the job. Strängnäs Municipality is at the forefront of the transition to the new social services law and already has many service interventions in place.

The work also involves writing investigations and proposals for decisions to the social committee and administrative court. Convening and leading SIP meetings, as well as writing statements, are other tasks that belong to the daily work. You are expected to drive your collaboration within the group, with other units, and other actors such as the region, probation services, etc.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone who has/is:

• A social worker or has another higher education that the employer assesses as equivalent.
• Experience in authority exercise within addiction/dependency issues/DV.
• Experience in the areas of addiction and domestic violence.
• Good knowledge of the Swedish language and can express yourself well in both speech and writing.
• A valid driver's license (B).

We consider it an advantage if you have:

• experience in investigative work.
• knowledge of current legislation and legally secure processing.
• ASI training.

We place great importance on personal suitability, and we want you to share the municipality's values: development, respect, openness, and clarity. To succeed in your role and enjoy your work, we see that you can work both independently and in a team. You are a team player and support colleagues in daily work as needed. You are comfortable meeting people in difficult life situations and can remain calm in challenging situations.

Your positive attitude and solution-focused approach make you a valued collaborator both internally and in working with other professionals. You are service-oriented with a professional demeanor where you focus on the client's needs. Through an understanding of the common mission, you contribute to the whole and act accordingly in your work.

We may apply rolling selection, so you are warmly welcome to submit your application today!

OTHER

Welcome to Strängnäs Municipality! Strängnäs Municipality has over 39,000 residents and is strategically located in Mälardalen with excellent communication opportunities. It is close to the big city of Stockholm, which can be reached by train in under 50 minutes, and even closer is Eskilstuna. Our municipality is an attractive place for both living and working, where you have the opportunity to make a real difference for society and its residents.

With us, there are many meaningful and challenging tasks, with opportunities to grow and develop in your professional role. In Strängnäs Municipality, over 2,500 knowledgeable and engaged employees work, all contributing to creating a positive everyday life for the residents. We value a workplace where everyone feels included and where there is room for influence.

We actively work based on a value base characterized by respect, openness, development, and clarity. In our annual employee survey, we see that our employees are satisfied. We hope you want to be part of our team and help us build the future of Strängnäs. Together, we create a stronger municipality and make each other better.

Strängnäs Municipality applies a smoke-free working time to create a healthy work environment for all employees, colleagues, and users.

Application Process and Personal Data Management:

• As an applicant, you are responsible for clearly documenting your qualifications so that we can make an objective and fair assessment of your application.
• When working with children and youth, a police record extract is required before employment.
• Strängnäs Municipality handles your personal data in accordance with applicable legislation. You can read more about our personal data management on our website: link (https://www.strangnas.se/kommun-och-politik/overklaga-beslut-rattssakerhet/personuppgifter-i-strangnas-kommun).

Strängnäs Municipality has chosen media channels for this recruitment and therefore requests no contact with ad sellers and recruitment services.

We look forward to learning more about you and how you want to contribute to the future of Strängnäs.