Vacant job

Description

At the Assistance Unit within the Care and Social Services Administration, assistance managers, assistance assessors, method supporters, housing coordinators, welfare advisors, and case handlers work in close collaboration. The operations are organized into geographical teams within Karlstad Municipality, where employees jointly handle the various tasks.

Due to demographic changes that result in an expanded target group, the operations are undergoing development work. The goal is to conduct modern and sustainable public administration, focusing on quality, legal certainty, good working environment, and continuous operational development.

Responsibilities

As an assistance assessor, you are responsible for investigating, assessing, making decisions on, and following up on interventions according to the Social Services Act within elderly care. The role involves ensuring legally secure and equal treatment, with the individual's needs, participation, and self-determination in focus.

The work involves extensive collaboration both internally and externally, with colleagues within the administration, providers within home care and special housing, healthcare, and other parts of social services. Collaboration takes place at the individual, group, and organizational levels to meet the individual's needs.

Qualifications

We are looking for someone who has:

• a degree in Social Work
• good knowledge of the Social Services Act and the Administrative Procedure Act
• experience in public administration
• a B-class driving license

Experience in public administration within elderly care and knowledge of the IBIC investigation method are considered meritorious.

To succeed in the role, you must have a good ability to work independently while contributing to good teamwork. You have a professional attitude, high integrity, and a service-oriented approach.

Furthermore, you are confident in your professional role, have good communication skills, and can express yourself well both orally and in writing. You have an aptitude for creating and maintaining trusting relationships. Personal suitability will be given great weight.

The operations strive for a balanced age and gender distribution as well as diversity regarding background and experience, as this contributes to better meeting the target group's needs. Language skills other than Swedish are considered meritorious.

We Offer

Read more about our benefits and what it is like to work at Karlstad Municipality at karlstad.se/jobbahososs

Information about salary levels can be found here (select "View salary statistics"). This recruitment concerns AID code 351012.

We look forward to receiving your application!

When you apply for a job with us, you will be asked to provide your CV and answer a number of questions where we ask you to describe your competence in the requested area. This means you should not attach a cover letter as part of your application.

About Karlstad Municipality

The Care and Social Services Administration is an administration focused on development and innovation, which is evident in the fact that we have been a model municipality for welfare technology in Sweden for several years. Around 2,000 employees work within the administration in care homes, security housing, home care, functional support, healthcare, and at our assistance office. These are important jobs where we make a real difference. Our goal is to always provide professional person-centered care and support.

Do you want to help create the Karlstad of the future? At Karlstad Municipality, you can make a real difference. Here, every employee is an important part of the whole, and together we help realize our vision of "A better life in the Sun City." Come and grow with us!

Additional Information

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process and simplify communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application via our recruitment systems and not via email or paper format. We decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this advertisement.

If you have protected personal data, you should not register your application documents in our recruitment system nor send them via email. Instead, contact the municipality's switchboard at 054-540 00 00 for further handling.