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Job Responsibilities

Do you want to make a difference and help create opportunities for those who need it the most? We are now looking for a new colleague who wants to be part of our team!

Your responsibilities include supporting and guiding clients towards self-sufficiency and investigating their right to financial assistance.

By working closely with clients at every stage of their development, you ensure they receive the tools and support they need to succeed. The path to self-sufficiency looks different for each individual, and the mission is to meet the client where they are. This may involve collaboration with various partners within the social office, healthcare, and not least the actors that provide job-oriented initiatives for our target group. Examples of available initiatives include Vamos, Smedjan, Kompetenscenter, and Finsam.

Rehab 2 is one of four units within financial assistance in the administration. We work with individuals who have dependency issues and/or health problems. The unit consists of eight social workers, one social administrator, one senior social worker, and one unit manager. Additionally, the administration's labor market initiatives for the target group, Vamos and Smedjan, belong to the unit. When you start with us, you will become part of a competent, experienced, and dedicated workgroup.

To leverage each other's knowledge and provide support in everyday work, you will be offered both methodological guidance from your senior social worker and external process guidance.

The Social Administration Sydväst is the city's only co-located social office, where all authority exercises for adults are under one roof. This creates good conditions for close collaboration and an efficient working method.

Our premises are just a stone's throw from Frölunda Torg, with good transport links and plenty of lunch restaurants. As an employee, you will be offered professional development, including in domestic violence and motivational interviewing (MI). We care about your work environment and offer employee support, wellness grants, bicycle grants, and flexible working hours – to ensure you have a sustainable and pleasant work situation.

Qualifications

We are looking for someone with a degree in Social Work. Since the job involves a lot of documentation and communication, you need to express yourself well in both speech and writing. Experience in authority exercise, especially in financial support, and experience with the target group of individuals with dependency issues is an advantage.

To handle the role of social worker, you need to take responsibility for your own and the shared tasks with the best interest of the organization/users in focus. You take your tasks seriously, are keen to complete what you have started, and ensure that the work is done correctly.

Furthermore, you need to have the ability to create structure in your work by planning, organizing, and prioritizing your tasks effectively.

It is also important that you show respect and consideration for those you meet in your professional role. You are friendly and helpful to others even in a stressful situation. You start from everyone's equal value and create a good atmosphere in meetings. You have an open and positive attitude as you base your actions on the individual's needs.

The position also requires you to have the ability to work together with others to perform tasks and achieve goals. By being interested and creating understanding for others, you contribute to a respectful work climate. You understand the common mission, act accordingly, and contribute to the whole.

Other

In this recruitment process, we will not ask for a personal letter. Instead, during the application process, you will be asked to answer a number of questions about your competence in the requested area.

To meet the requirements of GDPR and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally and not via email or letter. Do you have protected personal information? Then do not apply via the system, but instead contact the recruiting manager for handling your application.

The City of Gothenburg is one of Sweden's largest employers. Our mission is to create a good everyday life for the residents, visitors, and businesses of Gothenburg. As an employee of the city, you have a secure employment with many career paths where you get the opportunity for interesting and meaningful work tasks.

As we have already decided on the recruitment channels we wish to use for this recruitment, we kindly but firmly ask not to be contacted for further offers of competence mediation, advertising, and recruitment assistance.

About Us

The Social Administration Sydväst is one of four social administrations in the City of Gothenburg with around 900 employees. In the urban area of Sydväst, about 120,000 residents live, and the area stretches from Billdal to Högsbohöjd and to the southern archipelago. The administration's mission is to ensure that children, youth, and adults can live a safe and independent life and that children and youth have a rich leisure time. The administration also works to support people experiencing homelessness towards permanent housing. Through collaboration with civil society, local businesses, and other actors, we aim to improve public health and safety in the area.

In the Social Administration Sydväst, we want to harness the engagement of all employees. With us, you can influence both your own job and the lives of others.