Vacant job

Description

We are now looking for you who want to work with investigating, assessing, and following up on needs and interventions based on the Support and Service Act for Certain Disability Groups (LSS) as well as certain interventions according to the Social Services Act (SoL), such as supported housing and respite care at home.

The LSS unit is divided into two teams, both of which work with children and adults with physical, intellectual, or mental disabilities who need interventions according to LSS/SoL. The unit consists of 16 caseworkers, case supervisors, and the LSS manager.

We write our investigations according to the National Board of Health and Welfare's IBIC model and have a database system adapted for this purpose.

Responsibilities

The role of LSS caseworker involves ensuring equal and legally secure case processing with a focus on the individual's influence and participation. Collaboration and cooperation occur cross-professionally at the individual, group, and organizational levels to ensure the individual's needs are met.

The work involves many contacts with care recipients, their relatives, and representatives/guardians, as well as cooperation with service providers and other partners, both internal and external. Together with your colleagues at the unit, you work towards a good working climate and to ensure legal security.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who have a degree from the social work program or equivalent education assessed as equivalent by the employer. You have knowledge of relevant legislation in the area as well as case processing and documentation. To handle the assignment, you must have the ability to gather information, compile, analyze, and evaluate different courses of action to make assessments that lead to well-founded decisions.

As a person, it is important that you are confident, positive, engaged, enjoy influencing and participating, and have a professional attitude. We also see that you are someone who finds it easy to collaborate with other people. You have good communication skills and find it easy to express yourself in speech and writing. Personal suitability is given great weight.

Experience of authority exercise within LSS/SoL as well as experience with IBIC is meritorious.

We offer

• Support in various cases through coaching leadership, methodological support, and training opportunities that help you grow in your professional role.
• An engaged and responsive work group with good camaraderie.
• Colleagues who always support each other and together create a good atmosphere.
• Opportunity for remote work two days a week.
• Flexible working hours, wellness allowance, and the possibility of a wellness hour per week.

Read more about our benefits and what it is like to work in Karlstad Municipality at karlstad.se/jobbahososs.

Welcome to apply!

About Karlstad Municipality

The Care and Social Services Administration is an administration focused on development and innovation, which is evident among other things by our role as a model municipality for welfare technology in Sweden for several years. Around 2,000 employees work within the administration in care homes, secure housing, home care, disability support, health care, and on our assistance office. These are important jobs where we make a real difference. Our goal is to always provide professional, person-centered care and support.

Do you want to help create the Karlstad of the future? At Karlstad Municipality, you can make a real difference. Here, every employee is an important part of the whole, and together we help realize our vision of "A better life in the City of the Sun." Come and grow with us!

Other information

To ensure quality in the recruitment process and simplify communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application through our recruitment systems and not via email or paper format. We decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this advertisement.

If you have protected personal data, you should not register your application documents in our recruitment system nor send them via email. Instead, contact the municipality's switchboard at 054-540 00 00 for further handling.