We are looking for new employees for authority enforcement in elderly care

Through our core values of courage, tolerance, and creativity, we work in Uppvidinge Municipality to provide good service and develop socially important functions for our residents, visitors, and businesses. Uppvidinge Municipality is the largest employer in the municipality with approximately 800 employees. Here, we want our employees to feel a strong sense of participation, and there should be room for flexibility and development.

We offer meaningful work where we together have the opportunity to truly make a difference for the municipality's residents. Apply now and welcome to a municipality with a thriving business life, a rich association life, and proximity to nature!

About the Department

The Individual and Family Care and LSS Department is part of the Welfare and Care Administration in Uppvidinge Municipality and consists of four units with one unit manager. There are also two senior social secretaries who provide case-specific support and leadership. We work with authority enforcement according to legislation such as SoL, LSS, LVU, and LVM, as well as the implementation of measures according to the Social Services Act and LSS.

We want to make social work a field where people with competence, ambition, and heart can develop and create a stable foundation for the constantly changing social work. We focus heavily on creating stability, promoting creativity and courage, and want to give every employee the opportunity to grow and develop both personally and professionally to become the best version of themselves.

We offer a workplace where we support each other and work from a holistic perspective. You will receive close leadership, case-specific support, and teamwork across unit boundaries. We work with developing employee engagement, the Swedish Defence University's model, to create effective work teams with shared responsibility for those we serve, motivation in work, and employees' personal development.

The development and transition related to the new Social Services Act, where preventive measures, flexibility, and collaboration are central, pose exciting challenges and require courage and creativity. We are particularly investing in developing preventive work and meeting places for the elderly, and creating new flows and working methods across boundaries together with home care, home healthcare, and rehabilitation. We are seeking new solutions in ordinary housing to create good conditions for our elderly and facilitate for many to be able to live at home longer, with fewer needing special housing.

The Position

2 positions available.

Job Responsibilities

As two employees move on to other tasks within the operations, we are looking for new and engaged employees for our team within all authority enforcement in elderly care. The position belongs to the Adult and LSS unit within Individual and Family Care and LSS.

As an employee within assistance administration, you belong to the Adult and LSS unit and the working group with three assistance administrators for elderly care and two assistance administrators for LSS and social psychiatry. Social secretaries responsible for financial assistance, harmful use, and violence in close relationships, seven residential support workers, and one budget and debt advisor also work in the unit. This creates a good dynamic in the unit with several roles, competencies, experiences, and strengths. We work closely together and value each other's competence and experience.

The position involves authority enforcement with the target group of the elderly, and you are responsible for investigation, assessment, decision-making, and follow-up of measures. The work involves close dialogue with those we serve and their relatives, as well as a supportive function for persons seeking measures and their next of kin.

You work both independently and in teams in close collaboration with colleagues in other parts of IFO as well as within the Department of Care and Support. The work therefore requires that you have a good ability to establish contacts and collaborate with colleagues and other professions, internally and externally. We work based on the approach "Individual Needs in Focus" (IBIC) and in the business system Lifecare.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who have a university degree in the social work program, or other education that the employer deems equivalent. You need to be well-versed in current legislation and have the ability to work with complex issues. For the position, it is required that you master the Swedish language well and have the ability to express yourself well in both speech and writing.

We are looking for you who are engaged and passionate about social work and who want to share your competence and experience. You are curious and not afraid of challenges. You are unpretentious, quick to learn, and confident in yourself, as well as having a good ability to prioritize. The work requires that you are stress-resistant and enduring, as well as flexible and ensure that what needs to be done gets done. Your strength is that you see opportunities rather than difficulties and enjoy the challenge of finding constructive solutions to complex problems. You collaborate easily both internally and externally and are humble and receptive to others' opinions. Good treatment in client contacts is a matter of course for you.

Experience is seen as meritorious, and we place great emphasis on personal prerequisites and suitability.

A valid driver's license (Category B) is a requirement.

Terms of Employment

• Salary: Monthly salary.
• Employment type: Permanent employment.
• Duration: Permanent.
• Working hours: Daytime.

If you become suitable for employment, the employer will request an extract from the criminal record register. The Municipal Executive Board has made a decision that all new hires must present a criminal record extract before employment. The extract to be presented is the one for work in school or preschool.

To ensure quality in the recruitment process in Uppvidinge Municipality and to enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally and not via email or paper format.

In connection with the recruitment work, Uppvidinge Municipality has taken a stand on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore explicitly decline contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.