Benefit Administrator SOL at Lomma Municipality

Welcome to a workplace where you get to 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 transport links by bus, train, and cycle paths to nearby towns.

About the Unit

The Authority Unit HVO belongs to the Social Services Administration in Lomma Municipality and works on behalf of the Social Services Board. The purpose of the operations is to provide support and assistance to the elderly and people with disabilities in Lomma Municipality to enable them to live independent lives. The goal is to ensure legal certainty and, together in multidisciplinary teams, to investigate and assess individual needs, make decisions, and follow up on decided measures in accordance with the Social Services Act. Our mandate also includes providing service and information about the municipality's tasks and measures.

The unit's work is guided by the municipality's common value base, which is based on Openness, Respect, and Responsibility. We are all carriers of our values in our work, our commitment, and our treatment of each other, our citizens, and our partners.

We are looking for you who want to be part of a lovely and engaged work group and who want to work with both the social meeting and the legal certainty of authority exercise.

Currently, nine skilled employees and one senior benefit administrator work in the unit. All employees have many years of experience within social services and are passionate about social work with the elderly and people with disabilities. We value each other's working environment and there is a good atmosphere in the work group. The unit's employees work actively with the user in focus and to influence the development of the organization forward.

We look forward to receiving your application! Selection may take place on an ongoing basis, so do not wait to apply.

1 position(s).

Job Responsibilities

The role of Benefit Administrator SOL involves, based on current legislation and practice in the field, 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 (SOL). The work includes contact with the individual, possible representatives, and relatives, as well as the ability to work together in a multidisciplinary team with other professional categories to utilize the competence around the user. The work implies a high degree of independence in the mandate as well as close cooperation and coordination with other professions.

Qualifications and Merits

Requirements:

• We are looking for you who have a degree in Social Work and have experience working within authority exercise.

Meritorious:

• It is meritorious if you have at least one year of current work experience from authority exercise of the Social Services Act.
• It is meritorious if you have worked with coordinating discharge-ready users from hospitals.
• It is meritorious if you have worked in the operational systems LifeCare and Mina Planer.
• It is meritorious to have worked with 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 plan and structure your work. You have a good understanding of the different parts of authority exercise and see the value in both the professional meeting with individuals and in the administrative work. You are receptive, humble, goal-oriented, and responsible in relation to both your own mandate and the unit's common responsibility. You need to be able to express yourself clearly and professionally in both speech and writing and have the ability to maintain an objective perspective in different situations. You also have the ability to handle and review comments and complaints in a nuanced manner. If you, like us, like to mix the seriousness of the tasks with humor and laughter during coffee breaks and lunches, we believe you will thrive with us.

You need to be able to cycle, as travel between Lomma and Bjärred mainly takes place by bicycle. It is meritorious if you, in addition to that, have a driver's license.

Application

To achieve the best possible match between us as employers and you as applicants, we ask you to answer the following questions as a limited section in your personal letter. Your answers will form part of our selection process.

Employment type: Permanent employment.
Duration: Permanent.

In Lomma Municipality, you have access to benefits according to our collective agreement. In addition to insurance, we offer you, for example, a 3000 SEK fitness allowance and a benefit bicycle.

If you have protected personal data and want to apply for a job at Lomma Municipality, we refer you to our website under vacant jobs. There we offer you different alternatives to choose from to submit your job application.

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