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Welcome to a workplace where you can make a difference every day. Lomma Municipality offers coastal quality of life with proximity to Malmö and Lund. We care about our residents, the environment, and the sea. Lomma Municipality stands for development, sustainability, and high quality. We are located in the heart of the Öresund region and have good communication options with buses, trains, and bike paths to nearby areas.

The HVO authority unit belongs to the Social Administration in Lomma Municipality and works on behalf of the Social Committee. The purpose of the operation is to provide support and assistance to the elderly and people with disabilities in Lomma Municipality to enable them to live an independent life. The goal is to ensure legal certainty and to jointly investigate and assess individual needs in multidisciplinary teams, make decisions, and follow up on decided interventions in accordance with the Social Services Act. Our mission also includes providing service and information about the municipality's assignments and interventions. The unit's work is governed by the municipality's common value base, which is based on Openness, Respect, and Responsibility. We all carry our values in our work, our commitment, and our interactions with each other, our citizens, and our partners.

One of our employees is retiring, which is why we are now looking for their replacement. We are looking for someone who wants to be part of a wonderful and dedicated team and who wants to work with both the social meeting and the legal certainty of authority exercise.

The unit currently has nine skilled employees and one senior case officer. All employees have many years of experience in social services and are passionate about social work with the elderly and people with disabilities. We care about each other's work environment, and there is a good atmosphere in the team. The unit's employees actively work with the user in focus and to influence the development of the organization moving forward.

We look forward to your application! Selection may take place continuously, so do not wait to apply.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

The role of case officer under the Social Services Act (SOL) involves being responsible for authority exercise in the form of investigating, assessing, deciding, and following up on decisions for the elderly and people with disabilities according to the Social Services Act. The work includes contact with the individual, potential representatives, and relatives, as well as the ability to work together in a multidisciplinary team with other professional categories to leverage the expertise around the user. The work entails a high degree of independence in the role and close collaboration and coordination with other professions.

QUALIFICATIONS

• We are looking for someone with a degree in social work and at least one year of relevant work experience in authority exercise under the Social Services Act.
• You should have worked with coordinating patients ready for discharge from the hospital.

Desirable

• It is desirable if you have worked in the operational systems LifeCare and Mina Planer.
• It is desirable to have experience in authority exercise directed towards the elderly and people with disabilities.

As an employee with us, it is important that you have the ability to work independently and can easily plan your work. You need to enjoy both sides of authority exercise, both the social meeting and the administrative side. You are attentive, humble, goal-oriented, and responsible based on your and the unit's mission. You can express yourself professionally both in speech and writing and maintain a realistic perspective on situations. You also have the ability to handle and review feedback and complaints in a nuanced manner. If, like us, you enjoy mixing the seriousness of work tasks with humor and laughter during breaks and lunches, we believe you will thrive with us.

You need to be able to cycle, as travel between Lomma and Bjärred primarily occurs by bike. It is desirable if you also have a driver's license.

To achieve a good match between us as an employer and you as an applicant, we ask you to answer the following questions as a limited section in your personal letter. Your answers will be part of our selection process.

1. Select the competency of yours that best matches our description of the case officer role and explain a) how you acquired that competency b) how it manifests in your daily work.
2. Describe a positive collaboration from your work life that you were a part of, what you contributed, and what you learned from it.
3. How do you work with structure in your work life and daily life, and what factors do you utilize to complete a task on time?

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Before an employment offer, a police record extract must be presented along with valid photo identification and diploma. Please order the extract in good time.

Start date is according to agreement.

In Lomma Municipality, you have access to benefits according to our collective agreement. In addition to insurance, we also offer wellness grants and bicycle benefits.

If you have protected personal data and wish to apply for a job with Lomma Municipality, we refer you to our website under job vacancies. There we offer various options to choose from to submit your job application.

We kindly ask for no contact with advertisement sellers, recruitment, and staffing companies.

If you want to know more about Lomma Municipality, you are welcome to visit lomma.se (https://www.lomma.se).