Assistance Case Worker within LSS/SoL

Do you want to work in an environment where quality of life, participation, and individual needs are at the center? Then this might be the right role for you. Åre Municipality is now seeking an engaged assistance case worker who wants to contribute to creating good living conditions for people with disabilities.

About the role

As an assistance case worker, you have a meaningful and varied job where you investigate, assess, and follow up on needs and interventions. Your focus is on cases within the Act on Support and Service for Certain Functionally Impaired Persons (LSS) as well as certain measures according to the Social Services Act (SoL), for example, housing support and employment.

You are an important part of ensuring legally secure assessments and that the interventions are based on the individual's needs, wishes, and life situation.

Your responsibilities

• Investigate, assess, and make decisions according to LSS and parts of SoL
• Follow up on approved interventions and ensure quality and goal fulfillment
• Maintain close dialogue with the individual and their relatives
• Collaborate with colleagues, service providers, and other internal and external partners
• Contribute to the development of the operations and a professional working method

We offer

With us, you get a job where you truly make a difference every day. You become part of a competent and supportive team in a municipality characterized by engagement, closeness, and hope for the future. There are also good opportunities for development in a unique environment where mountains and nature are always close.

Welcome to Åre Municipality – together we create the conditions for a good life!

Qualifications

• Social work degree or equivalent higher education assessed as equivalent by the employer.
• Category B driver's license.
• Knowledge of legislation applicable to the area.
• Good ability to express yourself in speech and writing in Swedish.
• Experience in authority practice within SoL/LSS.
• Experience with IBIC.

Other

Employment type: Permanent position.
Duration: Permanent
Start date: 2026-08-24

Personal suitability is highly valued, and interviews will take place during the application period.

The position is vacant subject to no surplus, need for reassignment, or precedence existing in the municipality. Probationary employment may be applied. More information about Åre Municipality can be found at www.are.se (https://www.are.se).

We have taken a stance on recruitment channels and marketing prior to the recruitment process. Therefore, we explicitly decline contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.

Our benefits: Read more about the benefits here (https://are.se/foretag-och-jobb/jobba-pa-are-kommun/sa-ar-det-att-jobba-hos-oss/vara-formaner)

For this position, you need to show an extract from the criminal record.

At Åre Municipality, we create the conditions for everyone who lives or visits here to realize their dreams. In our magnificent mountain environment, eager skiers coexist with down-to-earth life artists. There is room for you too.

Our employees perform Sweden's most important job every day. Regardless of where in the municipality we work, we are all collectively there for the citizens of Åre Municipality. There are many different professional categories working in the municipality at various workplaces. Everyone's efforts are needed to deliver good service and continue to develop the operations and the entire municipality. We work to create value and quality of life for our residents, our entrepreneurs, and visitors. With us, you make a difference, every day!

At Åre Municipality, we work based on the value foundation that we are professional, respectful, and responsive.

Åre Municipality is a Sami administrative municipality, and we welcome applicants who have linguistic and cultural knowledge in Sami.