Vacant job

Description

As an employee in Gislaved Municipality, you are a co-creator at your workplace. You are given the opportunity and expected to contribute to the development of the operations through your knowledge and experience. Respect for differences and the equal value of all people are fundamental to us.

The unit consists of a unit manager, 2 team leaders, 15 social secretaries, and 1 administrative case handler, of whom 6 employees currently work in the area of functional support.

We are a courageous employer at the forefront of development and leadership. As a team leader, there is an opportunity for leadership development, and we offer external supervision. As a team leader, you help make the difference between a functioning operation and a very good one. In your leadership, you are courageous and curious. You dare to try new ideas that are in line with today's and tomorrow's demands from the outside world. You care about your area but always take a holistic perspective for Gislaved Municipality.

Responsibilities

In your role as team leader, you will be the supervisor at the Unit for Authority Adults and Functional Support. You will work in a team with the unit manager and other team leaders within the unit. We are now looking for a team leader who has competence primarily within the areas of LSS (Act for Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments) and social psychiatry.

As a team leader, your overarching responsibilities are to lead and distribute the work for the social secretaries, as well as to provide case supervision and develop the work.

The work includes among other things:

• Being available and a resource for employees within the team.
• Supervising cases, leading work, and coaching employees in daily work.
• Distributing cases within the team and maintaining an overview of current workload.
• Keeping up to date with current legislation, handbooks, routines, etc.
• Acting as a presenter in the Social Committee, the Administrative Court, and the Administrative Court of Appeal.
• Providing extra support in difficult and complex cases.
• Carrying out development work together with the unit manager.
• Together with the unit manager, ensuring that internal and external collaboration functions.
• Assisting in the recruitment of new employees.
• Together with the unit manager, monitoring the external environment regarding legislation, methodological issues, precedent court cases, etc.
• Ensuring that new employees receive an introduction and, together with the unit manager, planning competence development for staff.
• Assisting the unit manager with occupational health and safety issues.
• Making authority decisions according to the current delegation order.

To create work joy and good quality in the work, as well as a good work environment, you work together with colleagues who have broad competence and are happy to help each other. We are engaged and see it as a matter of course to work with the individual's needs in focus. For us, it is important to develop, and with active employee participation and trust-based leadership, we want you to contribute to improving the social office. We want to be a workplace where our employees thrive, feel good, and develop.

Qualifications

You are educated as a social worker or have equivalent education assessed as equivalent. The position requires experience of case handling according to the Social Services Act, and it is meritorious if you have experience working with LSS and social psychiatry, as well as IBIC (Intensive Basic Intervention Care) previously. Your employee participation is deeply linked to your ability to collaborate and participate in the development of yourself and the operations. With us, this means that you have good cooperation with the manager and colleagues, both at your own workplace and in the rest of the municipality.

A Category B driver's license is a requirement.

What we offer:

• Certain possibilities for remote work.
• Competitive salaries.
• External supervision.
• Competence development through professional journeys, MI (Motivational Interviewing), difficult conversations, leadership training, etc.
• Paid vacation from the first year of employment.
• Free swimming at the municipality's swimming facility and a discount on gym memberships.
• Free parking at the workplace.

Your employee participation is deeply linked to your ability to collaborate and participate in the development of yourself and the operations. With us, this means that you have good cooperation with the manager and colleagues, both at your own workplace and in the rest of the municipality. You treat everyone with a high service level, kindness, and high quality through a customer and service focus. You take responsibility for involving yourself in operational issues and are solution-oriented.

We place great emphasis on personal suitability and that your view of employee participation corresponds with ours.

We apply register checks (extracts from the criminal record) as a form of suitability assessment for all who are offered employment in operations where one has direct and regular contact with children and young people.

Do you want to be part of our success? Welcome with your application!

In Gislaved Municipality, full-time is a right, and therefore vacant positions are advertised as full-time. When the operations can accommodate part-time, it is of course an option. Positions shorter than 3 months and certain positions may be exempted. In connection with the recruitment process, Gislaved Municipality has taken a stance on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore expressly decline contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.