Vacant job

Welcome to the Care and Elderly Services Administration. We provide support and care for the elderly and people with disabilities. Our goal is for them to live as active and independent a life as possible.

The Care and Elderly Services Administration is one of Sweden's largest employers within municipal care and elderly services. Around 7,500 employees work here based on our core values – making a difference, working together, and welcoming innovation. Here, you have great opportunities to take responsibility, develop, and contribute your skills. We strive for an organizational culture characterized by mutual trust and pride in our operations.

For more information on what it is like to work in Uppsala Municipality, visit https://www.uppsala.se/jobb/vard-halsa-omsorg/ (https://www.uppsala.se/jobb/vard-halsa-omsorg/)

Within the Care and Elderly Services Administration, full-time work is the norm. This means that all permanent employees are fundamentally employed on a full-time basis. More information about what this entails in this specific role will be provided during a potential interview. Personal assistants are exempt from the full-time norm.

4 positions.

We are now strengthening our units in Uppsala with more benefit caseworkers. Here, you will have a varied and meaningful role where you meet people in different life situations and contribute to the right support according to the Social Services Act. You combine public authority duties with collaboration and become part of a developing environment characterized by engagement, cooperation, and quality.

About the role

As a benefit caseworker, you work with public authority duties within elderly care. You are responsible for the entire case processing process, from application to follow-up, and make independent assessments based on legislation and current guidelines.

The work involves both meetings and conversations, but also extensive written work where you investigate needs, document, and make decisions in a legally secure and structured manner.

Your main responsibilities:

• Receive applications, investigate needs, make decisions, and follow up on measures.
• Document investigations and decisions in the case management system.
• Maintain ongoing contact with users, relatives, and others in the user's network.
• Collaborate with other administrations, authorities, and the region, for example, during discharge planning.
• Inform about legislation, rights, and the authority's mission.
• Keep up to date with the legal situation through environmental scanning and legal databases.

Qualifications

Formal requirements

• Degree in Social Work, graduation from the Social Care Program, or Behavioral Scientist with knowledge of Social Law.
• Very good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written.
• Very good ability to work in digital operational systems and handle documentation and cases in a structured manner.

Meritorious

• Experience with public authority duties and case processing.

Personal qualities

We are looking for you who work in a structured manner and have a good ability to plan, organize, and prioritize your work, as well as meet set deadlines. You make professional assessments and can balance different needs and perspectives in a legally secure manner. You are clear in your communication and ensure that messages are received and expectations are clear. Furthermore, you are flexible and adapt easily to changed circumstances, while also seeing opportunities in change. You are also performance-oriented and motivated by working towards set goals and delivering results.

Our offer

We offer a modern working environment in central Uppsala with opportunities for flexibility and some remote work. You work together with engaged and competent colleagues in an operation characterized by cooperation and development. As an employee of Uppsala Municipality, you are part of an organization that stands for democracy, openness, equal treatment, and respect, with a focus on quality, legal security, and professional handling.

About the workplace

You become part of an operation focused on legally secure assessments, collaboration, and high quality in public authority duties. The workplace is centrally located in Uppsala with good transport connections.

Information

This recruitment includes a work trial as part of the selection process, to give a fair picture of your competence for the role.

If you have questions about the position or the recruitment process, contact:

Maris Rasul, Unit Manager, 018-7276004.

Union representative: Akademikerförbundet SSR/saco, Camilla Ahlsén Hoff, 018-727 24 34

If you have questions regarding the registration of your application, contact the Competence Supply Unit: 018-7263957.

We will request extracts from the criminal record register before employment can be offered.

In your application, you must state your citizenship. If you are not a citizen of Sweden, the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, you must also be able to prove that you have a valid work permit or are exempt from the obligation to have a work permit. Employment can only take place after verification of the work permit, as required by the Aliens Ordinance.

Employment with Uppsala Municipality may involve being placed on the war establishment.

Salary form: Monthly salary.
Employment type: Permanent employment.
Duration: Permanent, start date: By agreement.