Interim LSS Case Worker (Parental Leave) – Skurup Municipality

IFO in Skurup Municipality is looking for an engaged interim LSS case worker for parental leave for approx. 1 year!

Are you the one we are looking for to help and support us!

Skurup Municipality has just over 17,000 inhabitants and is beautifully located on the southern coast of Scania, with excellent connections to Malmö, Ystad, Lund, and Copenhagen. In our municipality, residents live in tranquility, with the city close by. The local business life is thriving, and immigration to the municipality is increasing.

1,200 employees keep the wheels turning daily, with full commitment to the citizens' best interests. With us, you are part of building an attractive municipality where dialogue, openness, and good treatment permeate the organization. We are proud of our short decision-making paths. Together, we make a difference!

Skurup's Vision 2045: With heart and commitment to quality of life, security, and development, we create the place where we live, work, and grow – together. Skurup Municipality is the place for the good life.

1 position(s).

WORK ASSIGNMENTS

What do we offer you?

As an employee within the Individual and Family Care, you are part of a cheerful and developing operation that values a good working environment and a positive work climate. You will receive active leadership and an accessible manager who helps you develop in your professional role and assists with prioritizing your case handling work. We are a modern operation that works with continuous development to meet our municipal residents in the best possible way. We sit in fresh, bright, and newly renovated premises within walking distance to the train station, where you have good communication routes both towards eastern and western Scania. If this sounds like something you like and you have what we are looking for according to the description below, we hope you will apply for the position.

Work Tasks

As an interim LSS case worker, you will work based on both the Act on Support and Service for Certain Persons with Functional Disabilities (LSS) and the Social Services Act (SoL), primarily social psychiatry. The target group within LSS is all ages, from children to adults, while within SoL, it is persons from 18 years of age.

With us, you will have another engaged colleague who investigates, decides on, and follows up on measures within the LSS area in the municipality. You will have close contact with a driven unit manager and an interested provider organization. At the Assistance Unit, there are colleagues within other public authority functions for adults, such as assistance case workers within elderly care, social/psychiatry case workers for supported housing, etc., who will help you find your footing with us. We are keen on ensuring the introduction is the best possible and place great emphasis on planning this to meet your specific needs.

As an LSS case worker, you will, among other things, meet with users, providers, relatives, and external collaboration partners. We consider it important that the dialogue works with all parties involved in the case, collaboration is fundamental, and there is also the ability to balance the official role, legislation, and applications from the individual or their relatives. We work from a holistic perspective with the individual's needs at the center (IBIC). We base assessments carefully and are keen on following up on measures. As support in your work, we have regular team meetings, case supervision, and close contact with both colleagues and the unit manager.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for you who have a degree in Social Work. You need to have good knowledge of current legislation and legal practice in the area, preferably experience of public authority functions within LSS and SoL.

As a person, you need to enjoy meeting different people and collaborating with others, have high social skills, be able to create clarity, and inspire trust. A dignified and respectful treatment is fundamental to your personality, and great importance will be attached to personal suitability.

You will work in the business system Treserva and base your work on IBIC. If you have prior knowledge of these, it is meritorious.

CONDITIONS

• In this recruitment, extracts from the criminal record will be requested. The extract is ordered from The Police (http://www.polisen.se/).
• A B-driving license is desirable.
• Skurup Municipality is a smoke-free workplace.
• Salary: Monthly salary.
• Employment type: Fixed-term employment.
• Working hours: Daytime.

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

If you have a decision on protected identity, contact the recruiting manager before applying for the position.

The position will be filled subject to necessary decisions being made.

We warmly welcome your application!

In connection with the recruitment work, Skurup Municipality has taken a stance on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore explicitly decline contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.