Employer: Båstad Municipality

Båstad Municipality is located on the scenic Båstad Peninsula, surrounded by the sea in three directions. Here you are met by beautiful nature, good communications, and an active society with full services. Our location with two railway stations, proximity to the airport, and highway makes the municipality an attractive place to both live and work in.

Our vision is to be a role model for a healthy life and sustainable entrepreneurship – a place where people want to contribute, grow, and develop. As an employer, we offer an stimulating and developing work environment, where our values are built on professionalism, job satisfaction, and respect.

Together we make a difference every day by providing good service to our residents, with engagement, collaboration, and a desire to develop.

1 position(s).

WORK TASKS

Your Assignment

As a budget and debt advisor, you work to provide support, advice, and guidance to individuals who are experiencing financial difficulties or are at risk of falling into debt. The work may involve everything from creating an overview of personal finances to providing support before debt adjustment and contacts with authorities, creditors, and other actors.

You will, among other things, work with:

• giving advice and support regarding budget, debts, and everyday economy
• helping individuals map their financial situation
• providing support in contacts with the Swedish Enforcement Authority (Kronofogden), creditors, and other authorities
• informing about and supporting individuals in the debt adjustment process
• working preventively through information, counseling, and collaboration
• contributing to the development of working methods within the unit and IFA
• collaborating with, for example, social assistance, labor market activities, housing support, social psychiatry, and external actors.

The work is both independent and collaboration-oriented. You need to be able to meet people in vulnerable life situations with respect, clarity, and patience.

Our Way of Working

Within IFA, we work with Signs of Safety (SOFS) as a common approach. This means that we focus on participation, transparency, networks, resources, and clear goals together with the individual.

As a budget and debt advisor, this means that you not only look at problems and risks, but also at what works, what strengths exist, and what support can be built around the person. We believe that people grow through clarity, participation, and concrete steps forward.

The position is located at the Support and Employment unit within Individual, Family, and Work (IFA) in Båstad Municipality.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for you who have a relevant university education, for example in economics, law, social work, social sciences, or other education that the employer considers equivalent.

It is meritorious if you have experience of:

• budget and debt counseling
• work with debt adjustment
• social work or authority-proximity support work
• work within municipal operations
• collaboration with the Swedish Enforcement Authority, the Swedish Social Insurance Agency, the Swedish Public Employment Service, or other authorities
• conversation support, guidance, or change work

You need to have good ability to express yourself in speech and writing, be able to work systematically, and have an easy time building trust in meetings with people. A driver's license is required.

Personal Qualities

To succeed in the assignment, you need to be secure, sensitive, and pedagogical. You can explain complex financial contexts in a simple and understandable way. You have the ability to create structure even in complex situations and can help the individual take steps in the right direction without taking over the responsibility. We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

We Offer

With us, you get a meaningful assignment where you make a concrete difference for people in Båstad Municipality. You become part of an engaged unit with broad competence and close collaboration between different operations within IFA. We offer a job where you get the opportunity to develop both individual support and preventive work within budget and debt counseling.

Employment Type: Permanent position.
Duration: Permanent.

We offer a wellness allowance and the possibility of both salary and vacation pay exchange according to current agreements. Non-smoking working hours apply. As part of the Helsingborg Family, we collaborate with other municipalities in the region for competence development and experience exchange.

Municipal agreements apply, and in the case of a permanent position, there is an obligation for war placement in Båstad Municipality. We value diversity and welcome all applicants; it is important that every employee's competence is utilized.

Union representatives can be reached via their respective union websites.

We apply continuous selection and interviews - Welcome with your application!

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