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The mission of the Education and Labour Market Administration is to increase an individual's prospects of finding employment and becoming self-sufficient through education, internships, and work.

The Labour Market and Social Welfare department is responsible for the planning, implementation, and coordination of the municipality's labour market initiatives, as well as the processing of financial assistance. The overarching mission is to support municipal residents in achieving self-sufficiency and participating in society.

Are you someone who wants to make a concrete difference for people while simultaneously developing your own ability to understand, support, and guide individuals toward independence?

Your responsibilities

We are currently seeking five social secretaries for the Social Welfare Support unit at the Education and Labour Market Administration in Halmstad Municipality.

The unit's primary task is to:

• Focus on the individual's abilities
• Create and strengthen the individual's prerequisites for self-sufficiency.

This is achieved through active interventions and change work in collaboration with other units within the department. We continuously collaborate with other authorities to help people achieve self-sufficiency and an independent life.

The work primarily includes:

• Processing applications for financial assistance
• Collaborating with other actors to strengthen the individual's ability to be self-sufficient.

Your qualifications

Required for the position:

• A degree in social work or equivalent education
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively with colleagues and other actors
• Good planning and organizational skills
• Strong communication skills to adapt and convey messages according to the recipient

Meritorious qualifications:

• Experience with financial assistance/social welfare support

As an employee, you are a role model and act based on our municipality's shared value base. You encourage others to participate and be creative, showing personal care by providing support and confronting issues with good intentions, both for your closest colleagues and for the organization as a whole. Through your way of acting and communicating, this approach is spread throughout the organization, creating motivated and creative colleagues.

Personal competencies

In your role as a social secretary within social welfare support, you use open communication to create clarity and security for the individual, while your problem-solving skills help you analyze situations and find interventions that can strengthen the path toward self-sufficiency. When the pace increases and cases become more complex, you show stress resilience by maintaining structure and professional conduct, and with your strong integrity, you ensure that every assessment is made legally secure, objectively, and with respect for the individual's trust.

We offer you

At the Education and Labour Market Administration, you become part of work where your competence and engagement actually make a difference. You contribute to people achieving education, employment, and self-sufficiency, and you are part of an organization with broad knowledge and a strong desire for development.

Here, you are met with trust-based leadership where your ideas are valued and where you have the opportunity to influence working methods and approaches. To ensure you feel secure in your role, you will receive a thoughtful introduction.

Want a glimpse of our operations? Here you can watch a short film about UAF's operations.

Read more about our benefits here: Health and benefits - Work with us - Halmstad Municipality

Additional information

Recruitment is ongoing.

To ensure quality in the recruitment process at Halmstad Municipality and to enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally.

We value the qualities that a balanced age and gender distribution, as well as ethnic and cultural diversity, bring to the operations. We therefore welcome applicants who contribute to this.

Before employment, you must demonstrate that you have the right to work, as required by the Alien Ordinance. You do this by proving your citizenship in the EU/EEA or Switzerland via passport, national ID card, or population registration certificate together with an identity document. If you cannot do this, you must present a work permit or prove that you are exempt from the requirement for a work permit.

The position is subject to the necessary decisions being made.

We decline all offers regarding advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this advertisement.

We look forward to receiving your application!

When you work at Halmstad Municipality, you create meaning by shaping, strengthening, and enriching others' daily lives - whoever you are. Here, collaboration, balance, and the opportunity to develop, both as a professional and a human being, are important - we are the workplace where you get more out of life! Read more about us here.