Vacant job

At Region Dalarna, you will find meaningful work where you can make a difference. Together, we work for a sustainable Dalarna with development potential in all parts of the county.

About the Role

The Habilitation is a county-wide specialist service located in five towns in Dalarna - Falun, Borlänge, Mora, Ludvika, and Avesta. Each unit offers Child and Adolescent Habilitation as well as Adult Habilitation. We work in cross-professional teams with medical, psychological, social, and pedagogical expertise. The Habilitation has an important and challenging mission to make life more possible for children, adolescents, and adults with congenital or early-acquired disabilities, as well as for their relatives. The interventions aim to contribute to a functional daily life, good quality of life, and participation in society.

Do you want to make a difference for people with disabilities and their relatives? Do you thrive in a work group with great commitment, solution-focus, and joy in work? Then the Child and Adolescent Habilitation is the workplace for you! The position is a two-year fixed-term contract for a study-leave social worker (counselor). The placement is at our clinic in Borlänge or Falun, but other locations can be discussed. Interviews may begin during the advertising period.

Benefits:

• Introduction program
• Access to a mentor and supervisor
• Professional meetings with colleague counselors in the service that contribute to your development
• Daytime work on weekdays with the possibility to influence your working hours through a favorable flexible agreement
• Certain administrative tasks can be performed remotely in agreement with your manager
• We have our own staff training and are generous with further education that matches the service's needs
• 2,000 SEK/year in wellness allowance

Job Responsibilities

Your duties as a counselor are to identify and initiate psychosocial investigation and treatment work in close collaboration with the rest of the team. It is usually the counselor who has the first contact with the patient and guardian. You provide counseling support to the patient, siblings, and relatives as needed. An important task for the counselor is to provide information about societal support measures and to help coordinate these.

As a counselor, you also hold shorter courses and groups for the patient's network in subjects related to your profession.

Travel within the county occurs in the work.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Degree in Social Work (Social Worker)
• Experience working with people with disabilities
• Manual B driver's license

Merits:

• Healthcare Counselor License
• Experience working with children
• Experience working within habilitation services

Personal Attributes:

We are looking for someone with commitment and interest in working with our target group. You thrive working in a team but also have a good ability to work independently. You should not be unfamiliar with working in digital environments as we work extensively with digital solutions both in patient care and in meeting activities.

Through your professional approach and communicative skills, you create good relationships with colleagues as well as patients and relatives, and contribute to a positive work climate. You need to be comfortable convening and leading meetings and groups of various kinds. You are willing to share your knowledge and ask for help when needed. Great importance is placed on personal suitability.

Application

• If you have protected personal data, you should not apply via the system, but contact the recruiting manager directly.
• We take internal references from current and former employees at Region Dalarna.
• On Applying for a job with us - Region Dalarna (#), you can read more about Region Dalarna as an employer, our values, work environment, benefits, and what checks are conducted before employment. This work involves direct and regular contact with children and/or adolescents. Before an offer of employment can be made, you as an applicant must present an extract from the Police's criminal record register via a digital register extract or alternatively in an unbroken envelope according to law 2013:852 or 2000:873. More information can be found here: The Criminal Record Register - request extract (polisen.se) (#)
• We have made our selection and decline contact from sales and recruitment agencies.

Region Dalarna will introduce a requirement for a license as a Healthcare Counselor from 2029-07-01 for those who will work as counselors within healthcare. If you are offered the position and lack a license, you will need a supplementary education to achieve eligibility to apply for a license. This will be planned in consultation with your nearest manager.

Contacts

Union Contact Information

Trade Unions - Region Dalarna