Employment Case Worker at Lerum Municipality

Lerum Municipality is known for its beautiful natural surroundings with lakes and forests. The municipality has 3,200 employees and 43,000 inhabitants, but expects significant growth in the coming years. Lerum is located just a 20-minute drive from Gothenburg and is currently facing a period of intense development with many exciting projects underway, ranging from schools to housing. The municipality works to ensure good service, high welfare, and a thriving business climate.

Dagens Samhälle named Lerum the winner in the category of large urban municipalities (2025) - an award based on a comprehensive comparison of 290 Swedish municipalities regarding schools, healthcare and social care, economy, culture and leisure, attractiveness, business life, and future factors such as digitalization and civil preparedness. Lerum is, in short, a Super Municipality!

The Employment Unit (AME) in Lerum is looking for an engaged and driven Employment Case Worker to strengthen our team.

1 position(s).

Responsibilities

The role involves supporting municipal residents on their path to self-sufficiency in collaboration with various actors. In your assignment, you will play a central role in creating pathways to work and self-sufficiency for individuals who are outside the labor market. The assignment includes, among other things:

• Mapping competencies, resources, and support needs.
• Creating and following up on individual implementation plans.
• Coordinating labor market and rehabilitation efforts at the individual level.
• Motivating individuals towards work or studies based on their prerequisites.
• Planning and implementing measures for individuals and groups to strengthen the target group's opportunities through courses and other competence-enhancing initiatives.
• Collaborating with internal and external actors.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who have a university degree in behavioral science or other education that the employer deems relevant for the assignment. We also look for you who have previous experience in similar work.

To succeed in the position, you need to have the following:

• Experience working in municipal labor market activities, the Swedish Public Employment Service (Arbetsförmedlingen), or the Swedish Social Insurance Agency (Försäkringskassan).
• Knowledge of the regulations of the Swedish Public Employment Service and the Swedish Social Insurance Agency.
• Knowledge and/or experience in one or more of the following areas: functional variations, mental ill-health, work rehabilitation, working with long-term unemployed.
• Experience collaborating with internal and external partners.
• Good insight into various subsidized employment and labor market measures.
• Meritorious to have knowledge of Motivational Interviewing (MI), BIP, and Supported Employment.
• Meritorious to have worked with individuals with psychiatric and/or addiction issues.
• Good ability to express yourself both orally and in writing.
• The position requires documentation and handling of our digital operational systems.
• Requirement: Class B driver's license.

The position requires good communication skills and a professional approach.

As an Employment Case Worker, you need to be receptive and have good skills in building relationships, listening, and motivating change. You have good collaboration skills and can work in a team or independently.

To succeed in the role, you need to be analytical, solution-focused, and open to new opportunities, as well as unpretentious and flexible. It is also important to be structured and able to plan and drive cases forward.

It is important that you have the ability to look beyond the immediate situation and see development needs in units that are constantly changing based on the external environment.

Great importance will be attached to personal suitability.

Selection and interviews will take place continuously during the application period.

Employment Terms

• Type of employment: Permanent position.
• Duration: Start date 2026-09-01.
• Working hours: Daytime.

The development in Lerum Municipality should be sustainable, and our management is based on the global goals in Agenda 2030.

We believe that our differences enrich and develop the individual, the business, and society positively. As an employer, Lerum Municipality actively works for gender equality and diversity and against all forms of discrimination and offensive treatment.

We value a good work environment where you can combine work and leisure. As an employee, you will have access to a range of benefits, such as a fitness allowance and staff care programs. Read more about our employee benefits here: lerum.se/dina-formaner (https://lerum.se/dina-formaner)

In accordance with the Pay Transparency Directive, Lerum Municipality hereby informs that the employer is covered by the Main Agreement HÖK HÖK (https://skr.se/kollektivavtal/huvudoverenskommelsehok.8204.html) and the General Provisions Collective Agreement AB AB (https://skr.se/kollektivavtal/allmannabestammelserab.655.html), and applies individual and differentiated pay setting. In accordance with the directive, you are hereby informed that the pay statistics for this position are:

• 10th percentile: 35,899 SEK
• Median: 42,100 SEK
• 90th percentile: 50,360 SEK

Note that for positions with fewer than five employees, the statistics are reported per AID level, which means several job groups have been combined. Neither the employer nor the job seeker is bound by this information. The information serves only as a notification for you as a job seeker.

As an employee in Lerum Municipality, there may be requirements to use a personal Bank-ID in the job for authentication in, for example, system logins or other verification.

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process, we ask you to submit your application via this link, and not via email or paper format.

We look forward to receiving your application!

In connection with this recruitment, we have already decided on the recruitment channels we wish to use. We kindly but firmly decline to be contacted for further offers regarding competence mediation, advertising, and recruitment assistance.