Social Secretary at Katrineholm Municipality

Do you want to make a real difference in people's daily lives?

The Social and Care Administration in Katrineholm Municipality works with support, care, and authority exercises for people at different stages of life. Our mandate is broad and spans several operations, from elderly care and home healthcare to individual and family care as well as guardianship activities.

We meet people with different needs, prerequisites, and life situations. What is common to our work is that we contribute to security, independence, and a dignified life. With us, you get to be part of an operation that is developing and that makes a concrete difference for the inhabitants of Katrineholm every day.

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Job Responsibilities

As a social secretary, you work with motivating and supporting clients to become self-sufficient. The work also involves that you independently investigate, assess, and decide on the right to economic assistance, which is financial help to maintain a reasonable standard of living. There may also be work involving preventing and investigating incorrect payments (FUT).

The main task is to meet people where they are in their different life situations and help them manage to support themselves. We work according to an approach where we start from each individual's resources and prerequisites. The role involves recurring contacts with the individual as well as internal and external collaboration partners.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who have a social work degree or a bachelor's degree in social work with at least 7.5 credits in social law. A B driver's license for manual transmission is a requirement as the position involves home visits in Katrineholm and surrounding areas. Furthermore, you have good computer skills and good ability to express yourself well in speech and writing in the Swedish language.

You should have good knowledge of the Social Services Act (SoL), the Public Access to Information and Secrecy Act (OSL), and the social insurance system, which means that you should be able to interpret laws, regulations, and practice. It is meritorious if you have experience of work in the area of economic assistance or other authority exercises. If you have previously worked in the Treserva operation system, we see it as a big plus. Education in Motivational Interviewing (MI) is meritorious as well as if you have worked with preventing incorrect payments (FUT).

In the role, it is important to be able to write clearly, structured, and target-group adapted, as the work involves documenting investigations and communicating with both individuals and collaboration partners.

To succeed in the role, it is important that you work well with other people and collaborate in a listening and smooth way and share your knowledge and experiences. A large part of the work is about, in collaboration with other authorities, finding the right intervention for the client that leads to self-support. To thrive in the role, you need to be calm and stable and maintain control even when the pace is high in periods. You need to be able to adapt to changing circumstances as constant changes occur in our legislation and society at large. You have an unpretentious approach and can handle and prioritize among the tasks when required.

Employment Conditions

• Salary form: Monthly salary.
• Employment form: Permanent employment.
• Duration: Permanent.

Katrineholm is a municipality where passion is the driving force for creation and development, for life, learning, and entrepreneurship. Our approximately 3300 employees make a big difference every day, where we together work from our value base RED; respect, openness, clarity, and trust to create the best conditions for our citizens. Everything is close here, an hour's train ride from Stockholm and two hours from Gothenburg.

Read more about us as an employer, our offer, and career paths here: https://www.katrineholm.se/arbeta-hos-oss/vi-som-arbetsgivare.html (https://www.katrineholm.se/arbeta-hos-oss/vi-som-arbetsgivare.html)

The current position is filled subject to the decisions that are required. According to the Social Services Act, extracts from the police's criminal record register must be presented by persons before they are employed to work at homes for care or housing (HVB homes), supported housing, or protected housing. You order this on the police's website. Katrineholm Municipality applies individual salary setting. All permanent employees are offered a full-time position and we apply a smoke-free working time throughout the organization.

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We warmly welcome your application!

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