Join Us at the Support and Welfare Unit in Falkenberg Municipality

Here in Falkenberg Municipality, you can make a significant difference. Our job is to provide good municipal services at all stages of life. We are also involved in developing Falkenberg as a place. Our vision is to grow for a sustainable future.

We are now looking for someone who wants to work with us at the Support and Welfare Unit. In today’s economic climate, our work is more important than ever. We are driven by the desire to help people feel secure and hopeful about the future by assisting them towards self-sufficiency and living an independent life. We are part of the social services department, and we work together with social workers, managers, assistants, and unit leaders to help those in need of financial assistance or who have become homeless. Together, we are 24 people in the unit.

There are many benefits to being employed by Falkenberg Municipality! In addition to having an important job, you will be part of a team with our friendly and supportive colleagues. We also offer an annual wellness allowance, flexible working hours, and some opportunities for remote work. It is important to us that you, as an employee, have a good working environment. We train all our managers in Developmental Leadership and actively work for a good working environment.

Warm welcome with your application!

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

As a social worker, you will support individuals in finding ways to self-sufficiency and living an independent life while assessing their right to financial assistance in the meantime. To thrive with us, you should enjoy meeting different types of people and life situations. You should be interested in change work focused on people's fundamental everyday lives in combination with authority exercise.

The unit works purposefully to ensure both professional and legally secure authority exercise as well as to develop qualitative methods for change work. We actively work with digitalization, such as simplifying and digitizing the application process for financial assistance.

The work requires collaboration both internally within the administration and externally, with, among others, the Employment Agency, Social Insurance Agency, and the municipality's Labor Market Department.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone who is a trained social worker or has a degree deemed equivalent by the employer, including social law, with professional experience in social work.

You should have good pedagogical skills and be interested in motivational and change work. You should be familiar with current legislation and regulations regarding documentation and have a good understanding of how society functions. Knowledge and experience in MI-based work are advantageous.

We place great importance on personal suitability and qualities such as initiative and flexibility, as well as being structured and responsible.

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Degree certificates must be attached to the application. To ensure the quality of the recruitment process in Falkenberg Municipality, we use the recruitment tool Visma Recruit. Therefore, we ask you to submit your application via Visma Recruit by clicking on the application link in the advertisement.

If you are applying for a job and have protected personal information, please contact the recruiting manager in the advertisement who will guide you further for a secure application process. You should not apply digitally via the application link.

In connection with this recruitment, we kindly decline contacts from recruitment companies and other advertisers.