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Engaged Social Worker Wanted for Herrljunga Municipality

Herrljunga kommun

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Welcome to Herrljunga!

With a strategic location in Västra Götaland and proximity to larger cities, you can easily commute and enjoy the offerings of the big city while retaining the charm and community of a small town. With nature close at hand, there are also plenty of opportunities for outdoor activities and recreation.

With us, you get the chance to work in a stimulating environment where your work truly makes a difference. We put people at the center and strive for every employee to feel welcome and seen.

Do you want to be part of shaping the future of Herrljunga? Join us in making our municipality the best place to live, thrive, and work. Together, we build a Herrljunga with growth potential!

We offer you great benefits, such as wellness grants via Epassi, the opportunity to exchange vacation day supplements for extra vacation days, and in collaboration with Västtrafik, you as an employee of Herrljunga municipality have the opportunity to purchase an annual pass at a subsidized and favorable price.

The adult support and treatment unit includes operations for authority exercise related to violence in close relationships, harmful use and dependence, outpatient teams, and family centers.

We are a team of nearly 40 employees gathered under one roof, which encompasses all authority exercises concerning children and families, adults, administration, and our outpatient team. The workplace is about a 10-minute walk from the station, and there are good bus and train connections to Herrljunga.

The organization has a strong spirit of development, and we are looking for someone with great commitment and a desire to join us in our ongoing development process. We are also actively working to develop local solutions.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

We are now looking for an engaged colleague for the adult unit's area of harmful use/dependence and violence in close relationships.

Adults seeking support and protection due to violence in close relationships, honor-related violence, or those who may have harmful use, addiction/dependence on alcohol, drugs, or gambling will come to you, where you as a social worker will investigate with the support of SoL and LVM. You will investigate, make decisions, and follow up on interventions.

Collaboration and social work are important and fundamental for us, where our common goal is to find and strengthen the individual's own resources. We have close collaboration with our own outpatient operations and other departments within the administration. We also see that a coordinated individual plan, SIP, is a good form of collaboration together with the individual.

A glimpse of what a day at the adult unit may look like:

  • You work with authority exercise - investigating, making assessments, making decisions about interventions, and following up on interventions.
  • You conduct a FREDA, a standardized assessment method, or another equivalent risk and safety assessment based on violence in close relationships, honor-related violence.
  • You conduct an ASI, standardized interview material, regarding harmful use/dependence together with the individual.
  • You may meet individuals in need of urgent support, help, or protection.
  • You participate in various meeting formats such as Apt, SIP, collaboration in individual cases, supervision, group meetings, meetings with those we serve.

This is an independent job that entails a high degree of flexibility, individual support, and motivational work with the individual, where each case and individual is unique.

We offer you a workplace with a positive atmosphere and good cohesion, where our goal is to be a trust-based organization and employee experience, and as a social worker, you have the opportunity to grow and develop in social work. We as a municipality are also involved in the initiation of the Professional Journey for harmful use and dependence.

Welcome to a workplace where we together make a difference!

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone who is a social worker, has a bachelor's degree in behavioral science, or another higher education that we assess as equivalent, including social law. Experience in authority exercise is meritorious, preferably within social services areas of harmful use/dependence and violence in close relationships.

As a person, you are structured and can express yourself well in both speech and writing. You have a good ability to create relationships, analyze legal texts and information, and draw conclusions in daily work.

It is also meritorious if you are certified in the methods we use such as ASI, FREDA, SARA, PATRIARK.

You are also flexible, have good self-awareness, are secure, and unpretentious.

We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

Do not wait to submit your application; interviews may take place during the application period.

Welcome with your application.

A driver's license and bank ID are required.

OTHER

In Herrljunga municipality, full-time is the norm with the possibility of part-time. If full-time assignments are not available, it may mean that positions can be combined with other tasks or at another workplace.

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process in Herrljunga municipality and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally and not via email or paper format.

Warm welcome with your application!

To staffing and recruitment companies and to you as a seller:

Herrljunga municipality has made its choice of recruitment and kindly declines all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this advertisement.

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