About the Job

Are you a person who, with interest, willingness, and attentiveness, wants to help develop our planning organization? The Department of Elderly Authority is now looking for a first social worker for a temporary position within the planning organization in the city area of Centrum, who wants to help develop the authority's operations with a focus on the discharge process from inpatient care.

The Department of Authority is part of the Elderly and Care Administration in the City of Gothenburg.

As a first social worker, you have a developing role where you support and guide the social workers in the planning organization. Based on current legislation, you are responsible for, together with the employees, managing case handling, method development, and legal security with the opportunity to make a difference for those we are here for. In your role, you act as an accessible and close support, leading work, coaching, and providing method guidance in daily work, both individually and in groups. Based on the assignment, you will collaborate with other actors, both internally and externally.

Your colleagues will be the social workers, three other first social workers, and two unit managers. In your role as a first, you will drive development and change work together with the manager and other colleagues. You see opportunities where new ideas can be developed to achieve increased quality and a uniform working method in the city. The first social worker plays an important role in assisting the unit manager in various operational matters and works together to achieve common goals, strengthen the future, and develop collaboration with both colleagues in the administration's first network and other actors.

You will work in a unit that is in a development phase. Together, you will develop one of the important parts of the authority process; the discharge process. Elderly care is facing significant changes where the reform Close Care will be a cornerstone. Here, it becomes especially important to consider the individual's path through the process and clarify the need for care as an important component of treatment.

About You

We are looking for someone with a degree in social work or other education that the employer assesses as equivalent. Experience in authority operations under the Social Services Act is a requirement. It is also a requirement that you have experience working as a first social worker. Since you will support and guide the planning case workers, it is advantageous if you are familiar with the routine for admission and discharge processes from inpatient healthcare and have knowledge of the IT services SAMSA and/or Treserva.

As a person, you see opportunities for change and create situations where new ideas and proposals can develop. You collaborate with others on overarching issues to create added value. You take into account different sources of information and perspectives and can adapt others' ideas to your own operations. You take responsibility for your tasks and drive the work forward while remaining calm and secure in pressured and difficult situations.

In this recruitment, you apply without a personal letter. When you apply, you will answer questions relevant to the position. Your answers will be an important part of our selection process. Welcome with your application!

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We are Sweden's largest municipal care and welfare actor. With us, you get:

An employer that promotes equal rights and opportunities regardless of background or professional competence
Secure employment
Meaningful work tasks
Career opportunities and professional development
Full-time employment with the possibility of part-time
Good vacation conditions
Wellness grants, bicycle grants, and other discounts and offers

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In this recruitment, you apply without a personal letter. When you apply, you will answer questions relevant to the position. Your answers will be an important part of our selection process.

Before an offer of employment, we ask you to present an extract from the police criminal record along with a valid identification document. The ordered extract must be unopened. You must request an extract from the police criminal record, which you can do via the following link: https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/kontrollera-dina-uppgifter-i-belastningsregistret/ (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/kontrollera-dina-uppgifter-i-belastningsregistret/)

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About Us

We are a leading actor in health care and welfare with high ambitions that offers many opportunities for development. We are looking for you who, together with 10,000 colleagues, want to make it possible – in both action and response.

We are in a future industry, and therefore it is important to show what we stand for and what you can experience if you become a part of us. It will be an exciting journey towards the world's best city for a long and dignified life. We are Gothenburg. Welcome aboard!