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Shaping the future together in Ljungby Municipality

In Ljungby Municipality, we are shaping the future together, aiming for 35,000 inhabitants. We who work here are open, forward-looking, and driven. Through engagement and collaboration, we create a municipality where people and businesses can grow and develop. Do you want to be part of it?

Trust-based management and leadership are the foundation of our organization – and a key to our collective success. Read more about us as an employer at www.ljungby.se/jobb (http://www.ljungby.se/jobb).

About the position

The working group handling social assistance consists of 10 employees. The work is coordinated by a Senior Social Secretary, who also provides support and guidance to colleagues in their daily work.

1 position(s).

Responsibilities

As a Social Secretary in social assistance, you will work with two main assignments:

• The individual's self-sufficiency: This includes, among other things, creating a plan together with the individual that leads to self-sufficiency.
• The individual's financial support: This involves assessing and deciding on the right to financial assistance, as well as providing advice and support to the individual to prevent further complications.

Your duties include, among other things:

• Investigate and assess the right to financial assistance using assessment tools, and handle appeals.
• Map the individual's needs and match them with suitable interventions.
• Create individual plans together with the individual.
• Closely collaborate with colleagues in other units, as well as external partners, to design the best possible support for the individual. The section also includes the municipality's labor market unit, which is responsible for labor market measures and interventions based on the new activity requirement currently being introduced.

Qualifications

• A degree in Social Work (Social Work) or another education deemed equivalent by the employer is required.
• Experience in public administration within social services and good knowledge of relevant legislation are desirable.
• Experience from other areas within individual and family care is an advantage.
• The work requires you to work independently, make legally secure assessments, and handle varied cases.
• You must be able to express yourself well in Swedish, both verbally and in writing.
• A valid driver's license (Category B) is required.

Employment terms

• Type of employment: Permanent position.
• Duration: Permanent.
• Start date: 2026-08-31 or according to agreement.

Application process

You apply for the position via Public Jobs (Offentliga Jobb). Grades and certificates should not be attached to the application but brought to the interview if applicable.

Work environment and benefits

Work-life balance is important to us! Here you can combine work with family and leisure time. We offer flexible hours and remote work where the operations allow it. We offer subsidized annual passes with Länstrafiken, wellness benefits, and much more. You also have free membership in the staff club, which gives you access to free training and swimming, as well as participation in other activities.

Safety and inclusion

Through the initiative "A Municipality Free from Violence," we actively work to prevent and counteract violence in society for a safer future. As part of this, enhanced background checks and requirements to provide extracts from the criminal record may be conducted for several positions.

Our operations have equality ombudsmen who actively work for a good work environment and support managers in equality issues. In this way, we ensure that everyone can work under equal conditions and is treated equally.

Our employees

Our latest employee survey shows that:

• 93 percent feel that the work is meaningful.
• 93 percent experience that the manager trusts that employees perform their tasks well.
• 78 percent look forward to going to work.

The results are high regarding respectful treatment (93%) and safety in the workplace (94%).

Relocation service

As part of our work to grow Ljungby Municipality, we offer relocation services for new and existing residents to make it easier to change living environments and move to our municipality. Email [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) if you want to know more about what we can help you with in connection with a move to Ljungby Municipality.

Ljungby Municipality applies smoke-free working hours.

The Municipality takes responsibility for the entire recruitment process and therefore declines calls from recruitment agencies and advertising salespeople.