Social Worker for Financial Assistance

At Tjörn, employees are encouraged to take their place! Within the Tjörn municipal group, the work climate and care for one another are highly valued. Decision-making paths are short, work tools are effective, and colleagues are helpful. You have great freedom within your professional field and can influence development. It is easy to socialize and create contacts with colleagues, managers, and politicians. So start working within the Tjörn municipal group too – there is plenty of room to take!

Tjörn - the island of opportunities all year round and for a lifetime is Tjörn's vision.

The Department of Individuals and Families consists of three units: the Children and Youth Unit, the Adult Unit, and the Employment, Integration, and Financial Assistance Unit. The units include authority exercise and open care. Each unit has a chief social worker and is led by its own unit manager.

As a social worker for financial assistance, you will encounter a workplace characterized by good community, inclusion, and close leadership. We believe in the strength of working together and the value of a climate where everyone feels welcome, heard, and involved. Here, it is easy to thrive and easy to collaborate – both within your own unit and with the department's other units.

We have a culture where you are given great space to shape and plan your work and contribute your professional perspectives. At the same time, support is always close at hand, thanks to accessible management and colleagues who are happy to share their expertise and experience.

As an employee, you are actively involved in the unit's development work – from everyday improvements to larger change processes. We work solution-focused and with a shared desire to find the best paths forward, both for the organization and for those we serve.

Regardless of your role, you become part of a context where collaboration, trust, and a positive drive create both job satisfaction and good results.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

As a social worker in the unit, your main task is to support and ensure that individuals applying for financial assistance find a way forward to sustainable self-sufficiency. You process and assess the right to assistance in a legally secure manner in accordance with applicable laws and guidelines. The meeting with our clients should be characterized by respectful treatment, professionalism, and high legal security.

To help individuals achieve self-sufficiency, you work closely with them based on an individual action plan and in close collaboration with your colleagues in the Employment and Integration Unit, as well as other important actors in the labor market, education, and health care. You also work closely with your colleagues in the other units within the department.

An advantage of working in a smaller municipality is that it is easy to connect with colleagues in other operations and thus create good collaboration around individuals.

You are offered as an employee:

• Method support from the chief social worker in teams and individually
• Case reviews with the chief social worker
• External process guidance
• Relevant further education
• Trust hours with the opportunity to finish at 3:00 PM on Fridays and once a month finish at 12:00 PM with retained salary.
• Flex agreement
• Opportunity for vacation exchange
• Wellness compensation
• Group training during work hours.

We offer you an interesting, varied job in a stimulating and positive work community. We work for a good work environment where it should be pleasant to go to work!

In this role, you thrive:

• If you have a natural ability to create relationships, both with colleagues and the individuals you meet in your work.
• You have a professional and respectful approach based on a humble attitude towards those you meet, regardless of the situation, and you create security through your attentiveness.
• You value collaboration, focus on the individual, and work to understand and strengthen each person's conditions.
• As a person, you are meticulous and structured, with the ability to independently plan and carry out your work.
• You are resilient and maintain calm even in rapid changes, high workloads, and in meetings with individuals.
• In a developing and changing organization, it is also important that you are flexible and can adapt to new needs, working methods, and situations while maintaining quality in your professional assignment.

QUALIFICATIONS

You have a degree in social work or an equivalent bachelor's degree from a university.

You have good knowledge of laws and regulations in the area.

The work involves a lot of documentation and communication. This requires that you have good computer skills and that you express yourself well in both speech and writing.

It is an advantage if you have MI training and knowledge of the processes within various authorities such as the Employment Service, Social Services, and the Social Insurance Agency.

A driver's license (B) is a requirement.

OTHER

We conduct interviews on an ongoing basis during the application period.

Tjörn Municipality requests a criminal record extract in connection with this recruitment.

For certain professions within Tjörn Municipality, an extract from the criminal record and/or a security check is required. For all positions within the social services, an acceptable extract from the police's criminal record must be presented.

Visit the police's website to request an extract from the criminal record. This can be done digitally with e-identification or by filling out a form. Please note that processing time can be up to two weeks, so order the extract in good time.

Employees in the municipal group should have a good work environment and work-life balance with family, friends, and leisure. We apply a smoke-free working time and the employer offers benefits such as wellness grants. After you have been employed for more than three months, you automatically become a member of our leisure association, TKFF, which both organizes and sponsors various activities. You receive a yearly pass to the Nordic Watercolor Museum. All new monthly employees are offered a full-day municipal-wide introduction day. If you are permanently employed, you have the opportunity to lease an environmentally friendly car as a company car.

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