We are looking for a Senior Social Secretary in Varberg Municipality

We are Varberg Municipality, the employer who sees the potential in you. Here you get to make a difference, both for others and for yourself. We are driven by the idea of simplifying people's daily lives and realizing their dreams. We do this with the help of knowledge, innovative courage, and a forward-looking spirit. Welcome to contribute to the work towards our vision – to become the creative hub of the west coast.

The Social Services Department is responsible for providing support, care, and assistance to people at different stages of life. We work based on the individual's needs and offer interventions based on several laws, including the Social Services Act (SoL), the Act of Support and Service for Certain Persons with Functional Impairments (LSS), and the Health and Medical Services Act.

This can involve giving older people a safe and meaningful daily life, supporting people with disabilities, or being there for children, young people, and adults in vulnerable life situations.

With us, you meet every individual with respect and professionalism. We collaborate across professional boundaries – both within our own department, with other parts of the municipality, and with external actors. To ensure quality and development, we actively work with follow-up, improvement work, and digitalization.

Here you make a real difference – every day.

1 position(s).

RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Senior Social Secretary, you have a leading role within the social services and act as a support and supervisor for social secretaries in their daily work. You are responsible for ensuring that case processing and interventions are carried out in accordance with legislation, guidelines, and quality requirements.

The work involves creating conditions for a legally secure and safe case processing, as well as working for a good working environment within the unit. Your role is central in leading development and quality work and working to ensure that the activity achieves its goals. Examples of tasks:

• Provide professional support and supervision to social secretaries in their case processing, and assist them in complex or particularly demanding cases.
• Ensure that case processing follows current legislation and guidelines, and maintain high quality and legal security in decision-making.
• Participate in follow-up and quality work to develop routines, processes, and working methods.
• Collaborate with other units, authorities, and external actors to ensure cohesive support and efficient information exchange.
• Document and follow up on the unit's work and contribute to ensuring that the activity's goals and quality requirements are met.
• Support the unit manager in planning and working environment issues, and participate in the work to create a sustainable working environment for social secretaries.
• Work based on the activity's value basis and with a respectful approach that creates security and trust among both staff and users.
• Contribute actively to the unit's quality and development work and be a driving force for maintaining a legally secure and high-quality social service.
• Keep up to date with relevant legislation, research findings, and new working methods to be able to provide the best support to social secretaries.

We have a good atmosphere in the unit, which we actively work to maintain. The staff group consists of both experienced employees who have been with us for a long time, and employees with shorter experience. We work for a mix of genders and ages.

QUALIFICATIONS

As a person, you are secure, stable, and analytical. You have a good ability to supervise, support, and motivate colleagues, while also being able to work in a structured and legally secure manner. Your ability to collaborate enables you to build good relationships both internally and externally, and you actively contribute to a positive working environment.

We also see that you have:

• A degree in Social Work (Socionom)
• Experience in authority practice within the social services
• Good knowledge of social services legislation, administrative law, and relevant regulations

Do you want to work in a role where you have the opportunity to both supervise colleagues and develop the activity? As a Senior Social Secretary, you will become a key person in the work to create a legally secure, sustainable, and safe social service.

Apply today!

Salary: Monthly salary.
Employment type: Permanent employment.

Varberg Municipality welcomes diversity and sees differences as a strength. We hope that you, as an applicant, can contribute with your background and competence.

Welcome to read more about what it is like to work with us at: https://varberg.se/jobb-och-foretagande/jobb-praktik-och-ideellt-arbete/till-dig-som-ska-borja-hos-oss (https://varberg.se/jobb-och-foretagande/jobb-praktik-och-ideellt-arbete/till-dig-som-ska-borja-hos-oss)

Before employment with us, you need to show that you have the right to work in Sweden according to the Aliens Ordinance. This is done by proving citizenship in the EU/EEA or Switzerland, or by showing a work permit or exemption from it.

This position requires a driver's license for both manual and automatic cars.