Vacant job

As an employee of Härnösand Municipality, your primary task is to provide excellent service to residents and visitors together with your colleagues. Our culture should be characterized by trust, curiosity, and learning, and we want you to have a long-term, sustainable working life.

We are convinced that our attitude towards each other and our work has a direct connection to the residents' experience of our welfare services. We are also sure that equality and diversity develop and raise the quality of our operations.

We encourage lifelong learning and give you the opportunity for development and career growth.

Härnösand is part of the High Coast, with World Heritage nature constantly present. Here we have the sea in the middle of the city. The pride for our place is great and the community is strong. Creativity gives innovative companies and a club and cultural life that lives on breadth and delivers on height. In Härnösand, there is time for experiences together.

We are now looking for two committed social secretaries who want to work with meaningful and socially important tasks! With us, you get the opportunity to make a difference in people's lives in a business characterized by cooperation, development, and quality.

About the business

We work with authority enforcement within economic assistance, harmful use and addiction, violence in close relationships, as well as budget and debt counseling. The goal within economic assistance is that the individual, with the help of social services, should become self-sufficient.

With us, you will be part of a work group with helpful, experienced, and competent colleagues. We are a stable work group that has long experience of working focused on self-sufficiency in cooperation with other actors. We are engaged in the changes that occur as a result of the activity requirement and other changes within economic assistance.

About the job

The job involves working to investigate, assess, and decide on the right to economic assistance. The role includes actively supporting, motivating, and strengthening individuals' belief in their own ability to eventually become self-sufficient. The work involves authority enforcement and cooperation with other internal and external actors.

All work within the unit is qualified social work where decisions are made based on legal certainty, i.e., current laws, guidelines, and case law. The job also includes on-call duties.

Qualifications

• A degree in Social Work is required
• A valid driver's license (Category B) is required
• Advantageous with experience within economic assistance
• Advantageous with experience working in the Life Care business system
• Advantageous if you are multilingual

We are looking for you who are positive and have a holistic view and understand how your role contributes to the business's overall goals. You have good empathy and can put yourself in other people's perspectives, while maintaining your professional distance. You are loyal, stand behind made decisions, and follow guidelines and policies. Furthermore, you are proactive, take responsibility, and drive the work forward. You also have very good cooperation skills, communicate clearly, and work in a listening and constructive manner together with others. You are flexible, enjoy collaborating, and contribute to a good and inclusive work climate. As a new employee, you will receive an introduction and continuous external supervision as support in your work.

Other

Scope: Permanent position, full-time.

Start date by agreement, but no later than 2026-08-01 for one position and no later than 2026-09-01 for the other position.

Selection and interviews may take place continuously. You may therefore be contacted before the last application date.

We apply individual salary setting.

To be considered for employment, you must be able to at the interview:

• Show a valid ID document
• Upon request, provide a copy of grades or degree certificate
• Prove that you have the right to work in Sweden by showing a valid work permit
• Upon request, show a valid driver's license
• Upon request, show a valid professional license

Register Check

For some positions, you need to show an extract from the criminal record before employment can become relevant. You can read more about which businesses are covered on the Swedish Police Authority's website.

Security Check

For some positions, a security check is carried out according to security protection legislation. If you become relevant for such a position, you must:

• Undergo and pass the security check

For some positions, Swedish citizenship may be a requirement.

Application

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process, we ask you to submit your application via this advertisement. We do not accept applications in any other way. If you have a protected identity, please contact the responsible recruiter.