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Through our core values of courage, tolerance, and creativity, we work at Uppvidinge Municipality to provide excellent service and develop socially important functions for our residents, visitors, and businesses. Uppvidinge Municipality is the largest employer in the municipality with approximately 800 employees. Here, we want our staff to feel a strong sense of participation and ensure there is room for flexibility and development.

We offer meaningful work where we have the opportunity together to truly make a difference for the municipality's residents. We welcome your application and invite you to a municipality with a thriving business life, a rich association life, and proximity to nature!

Do you want to work closely with people and contribute to real change in everyday life?

We are now looking for staff members for our team within supported housing in social psychiatry. The position belongs to the Adult and LSS unit within Individual and Family Care and LSS.

The Individual and Family Care and LSS (IFO) division is part of the Welfare and Care Administration in Uppvidinge Municipality and consists of five units with our unit manager. There are also two senior social secretaries who provide case-specific support and leadership. We work with both authority enforcement according to the Social Services Act (SoL), the Act on Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments (LSS), the Care of Young Persons Act (LVU), and the Care of Mentally Disordered Persons Act (LVM), as well as the implementation of measures according to the Social Services Act and LSS.

We want to make social work a field where people with competence, ambition, and heart can develop and create a stable foundation for the constantly changing social work. We place great emphasis on creating stability, promoting creativity and courage, and giving every employee the opportunity to grow and develop both personally and professionally to become the best version of themselves.

We offer a workplace where we support each other and work from a holistic perspective. You will receive close leadership, case-specific support, and teamwork across unit boundaries. We work with developmental employee management, the Swedish Defence University's model, to create effective work teams with shared responsibility for those we serve, motivation in work, and employees' personal development.

Development related to the new Social Services Act, where preventive measures, flexibility, and collaboration are central, and we are particularly focusing on developing support for parents with mental illness and neurodevelopmental disorders (NPD) through family-oriented supported housing. Employment for people with psychiatric diagnoses to create meaningful activities and meeting places for community and well-being is also in focus.

1 position(s).

WORK RESPONSIBILITIES

As a staff member in supported housing, you work closely with people with mental illness and/or neurodevelopmental disorder (NPD) issues. You provide individually adapted support in everyday life with a focus on strengthening independence, structure, and participation in society. The support may involve planning and creating daily structure, motivating social contacts and activities, collaborating with other actors regarding the individual's needs, and family-oriented support when relevant.

You work both independently and in teams in close collaboration with colleagues in other parts of IFO.

QUALIFICATIONS

You have education in social work, such as social worker, treatment pedagogue, social pedagogue, or other education that the employer deems equivalent.

Experience in social work is a requirement, especially within change work or work with the target group.

Great importance is attached to personal suitability and interest in the target group within mental illness and neurodevelopmental disorder (NPD) issues.

A B-driver's license is a requirement.

We are looking for you who are engaged and passionate about social work. You need to be stress-resistant, durable, and not afraid of challenges, as well as curious and quick to learn. You see opportunities rather than difficulties and enjoy the challenge of finding constructive solutions to complex problems. You are unpretentious and confident in yourself, yet humble and receptive to others' opinions. The assignment requires flexibility, that you are solution-focused, and can work both independently and together with others to find sustainable solutions based on the individual's needs. We expect you to have a good ability to prioritize and ensure that what needs to be done gets done. Good treatment both in client contacts and in collaboration is a matter of course for you.

Salary: Monthly salary.
Employment type: Permanent position.
Duration: Permanent, start: 2026-09-01 or according to agreement.
Working hours: Schedule. Scheduled working hours incl. some evenings and weekends.

If you become suitable for employment, the employer will request an extract from the criminal record. The Municipal Executive Board has made a decision that all new hires must present a criminal record extract before employment. The extract to be presented is the extract for work in school or preschool.

To ensure quality in the recruitment process at Uppvidinge Municipality and to enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally and not via email or paper format.

In connection with the recruitment work, Uppvidinge Municipality has taken a stand on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore expressly decline contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.