Seeking Coordinator for Work and Integration in Mjölby

We are Mjölby Municipality. Together we deliver services, act as community builders, and exercise authority. Our work benefits society with the citizen's best interests in focus – throughout life.

The Care and Social Services Department is one of Mjölby Municipality's six departments and has a clear mission – we exist for people. With approximately 1,000 employees, we contribute to independent and active lives with meaningful engagement. Our driving force is to create development and security in everyday life, and our shared goal is to create good welfare services. Success requires competence, commitment, and courage – we dare to invest in innovation, new technology, and new ways of working to drive development forward.

The Work and Integration Unit is part of the Individual and Family Care within the Care and Social Services Department. The unit's main task is to get people who are furthest from the labor market into education, work, or other activities with the goal of achieving self-sufficiency. The unit currently has four internal operations, including a first-step activity and a cafeteria that enable work rehabilitation, work training, and practice before the person is ready for placement in a regular workplace within the municipality. Within the unit, occupational therapists, labor market caseworkers, labor market investigators, supervisors, mentors, coordinators for internal operations, and administrators work.

Are you an engaged, creative, and responsive team player who wants to create quality of life? We are now looking for a coordinator who wants to develop the operations together with us.

1 position(s).

Job Responsibilities

Coordinator for Work and Integration

As a coordinator, you lead and distribute the daily work at the unit. You support employees in the participant process and are responsible for ensuring that the operations are conducted in accordance with our goals and guidelines. Furthermore, you ensure that the work is carried out in a way that focuses on the work line and self-sufficiency, and that methods and approaches are developed to support employees in this regard.

The role includes monitoring the external environment and staying updated on changes and developments affecting both the individual work group and the operations as a whole. The role may also involve some project management as our operations conduct several large projects. Under the unit manager, you are responsible for working together with the coordinators for our internal operations and the work group to ensure that steering documents, such as guidelines and routines, are updated in significant areas.

On behalf of the unit manager, you quality-assure the participant work at the individual and operational levels, and contribute together with colleagues at the unit to achieving goals in the area, ensuring that outcomes are analyzed and lead to continuous improvements. You also contribute to well-developed internal and external collaboration.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who have a degree in social work, behavioral science, or personnel science, and several years of experience working with labor market issues. You are very familiar with working within social work. The work requires that you have good computer skills and that you are a communicative person with good ability to express yourself in Swedish, both orally and in writing. A B-class driver's license is required.

As a person, we see that you are structured and clear in your working methods while being responsive, creative, and contributing to a good work climate. You take initiative, are analytical, and have a good ability to lead and inspire a work group, as well as adapt supervision to experience and competence. You have a well-known good ability to collaborate and experience in developing sustainable and respectful collaboration with internal and external partners.

We are a secure and sustainable employer. Large enough to offer employees good working conditions and exciting development opportunities. Small enough for close collaborations, participation, and influence.

With a focus on our mission, to benefit society, we enable space for personal responsibility and creativity. Together we drive the municipality and sustainable societal development forward.

Employment type: Permanent.
Duration: Permanent.

In your application, you attach relevant educational certificates and diplomas that support your CV. If you proceed to an interview, we will check your ID. Read more about our recruitment process at www.mjolby.se/ledigajobb (http://www.mjolby.se/ledigajobb).

Our municipality is expanding with approximately 28,824 inhabitants. We are close to each other and close to the rest of the world, and communications are excellent. Mjölby Municipality's vision is summarized in a slogan: Worldly and Home-loving. "Worldly" stands for openness, new thinking, desire to grow, and belief in the future. "Home-loving" stands for pride and joy in the hometown. With us, it is easy to live a good life.