Vacant job

Do you want to work in a small municipality with big opportunities?

We warmly welcome you to Munkedal Municipality!

Munkedal Municipality is located in northern Bohuslän, between Oslo and Gothenburg. Here, forest, river, and sea meet, and distances are short between people and results. With us, you work closely with both colleagues and operations, with the opportunity to influence and make a difference in everyday life. We build on what is already strong and develop what makes people want to live, work, and thrive here. Development is created through interaction between residents, businesses, associations, and the municipality. This means that as an employee, you drive change together with others. We focus on people's well-being and strive to make Munkedal Municipality a place where people want to thrive and recommend to others.

The administration of the Municipal Executive Board is responsible for supporting, providing service, and ensuring that laws and regulations are followed within each expert area, for our core operations in the municipality. The administration of the Municipal Executive Board consists of the departments of finance, administration, HR, communication & growth, and the payroll unit.

Do you want to strengthen our work with occupational health and rehabilitation?

We are looking for an Occupational Health and Rehabilitation Coordinator within HR, with a special focus on leading and coordinating long-term rehabilitation cases, providing managers with clear and action-oriented support, and contributing to employees receiving the right interventions for a sustainable return to work. You will become part of the HR department, which is a small, competent team of five people with a big heart and commitment, where you will become an important part of our occupational health and rehabilitation work. Do you want to help create sustainable workplaces? We warmly welcome your application!

Description of the work

As an Occupational Health and Rehabilitation Coordinator within HR, you will have a central role in the municipality's systematic occupational health and safety work. The assignment involves being responsible for, driving, and following up on long-term rehabilitation cases, in close dialogue with internal and external parties. You work closely with managers and HR colleagues and are an important support in both analysis, development, and case handling.

Your assignment includes driving, coordinating, and handling complex and long-term rehabilitation cases within the Welfare Administration, from start to finish, including documentation, planning, and follow-up. Identifying risk factors related to sickness absence and long-term sick leave and actively turning them into concrete improvement measures is an important part of the assignment, as is developing, implementing, and following up on routines, methods, and ways of working within occupational health and rehabilitation.

The assignment involves providing qualified support to managers with a focus on the right interventions and collaborating with various parties, such as occupational health services, the Swedish Social Insurance Agency, the Public Employment Service, and trade unions.

We are looking for you who

• have an academic degree in HR, behavioral/health sciences, occupational health, or other education that the employer deems equivalent.
• have good knowledge of relevant legislation (Occupational Safety and Health Act, AFS regulations, Social Insurance Code).
• have experience with rehabilitation cases and occupational health work, preferably from the public sector (meritorious).

Your personal qualities are important to us, and we will place great emphasis on them. We value your communication skills, that you are relationship-building, and thrive in a role where you work in close collaboration with first-line managers and provide operational support and guidance. Likewise, you are structured, analytical, and confident in working with statistics, follow-ups, and action plans.

We offer you

• an opportunity to influence! Your work plays a crucial role in reducing long-term sick leave and strengthening the occupational health environment in the municipality.
• a pleasant and down-to-earth workplace culture with close collaboration and great commitment.
• flexible working hours and generous opportunities for competence development.
• security through municipal benefits such as favorable occupational pension contributions and good insurance.
• wellness allowance, an active network of health inspirers at the workplaces, bike benefit, discounts on gym memberships, as well as free training in the fitness facility Styrkan.

We want to inform you about

• that the position is a project employment for 2 years.
• that a background check via our provider Fortcheck will be conducted before employment.

We warmly welcome your application! Together we are building an attractive municipality where people feel good, thrive, and want to develop.

To be considered for employment, you must at the interview:

• show a valid ID document.
• if necessary, present a copy of your certificate/degree.
• have the right to work in Sweden and be able to show a valid work permit.
• if necessary, present a valid driver's license.
• if necessary, present a valid professional license.

In certain appointments:

• a security clearance is conducted. If you become relevant for such a position, a approved security clearance is required.
• license verification is conducted via the National Board of Health and Welfare or the Swedish National Agency for Education.
• control against IVO's register is conducted.
• you need to be a Swedish citizen, but may have a foreign background.

We value the qualities that diversity and equal gender distribution bring to the operations and therefore welcome applicants with different backgrounds and life experiences.

We warmly welcome your application - we look forward to hearing from you!

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