Case Worker for Authority Unit – Adults, Disability Support and Administration

Mullsjö Municipality is small in area but offers a high quality of life. Here you will find an active outdoor lifestyle with fish-rich lakes, scenic views, and thousands of hiking and cycling trails. Unique industrial environments, churches, art, and theater, combined with an active business and association life, create a vibrant and growing municipality. In Mullsjö Municipality, we work closely together to succeed based on three goal areas: Safety, Togetherness, and Growth.

The Authority Unit – Adults, Disability Support, and Administration is part of the Social Services Administration and is responsible for authority exercises in several areas. In addition to cases within disability support, the unit also handles cases concerning the elderly, harmful use and addiction, and violence in close relationships. A total of six case workers and seven administrators work at the unit. The administrators work targeted towards both authority exercises and executive operations within the Social Services Administration.

Within the unit's authority exercises, we support each other and help out where needed based on our common mission – that citizens who need our help should receive it.

With us, you get a meaningful job where you contribute to creating safety and better living conditions for people in need of support. You get the opportunity to work in an operation with engaged colleagues and an important social mission that makes a difference. Here you get both room to grow and the opportunity to contribute your skills in a municipality where decision-making paths are short and collaboration is close.

Commuting opportunities to us are good, and the train station is located right next to the municipal office, making it easy to get to and from work.

We offer among other things:

• Opportunity to influence and develop the operations
• Flexible working hours
• Wellness allowance, free swimming at the municipality's swimming facilities, and competence development, etc.

1 position(s).

Job Description

As a case worker in the current position, you work with authority exercises directed towards persons with intellectual, physical, and/or mental disabilities who need support for a functioning daily life. The work takes place mainly during daytime, but on rare occasions, work during major holidays may occur based on the municipality's responsibility to enable discharge from the hospital.

Your main tasks are:

• Receive applications
• Investigate and assess needs
• Make delegated decisions according to the Social Services Act (SoL) and the Act on Support and Service for Certain Disabled Persons (LSS)
• Follow up on made decisions
• Collaborate with both internal and external actors

In the work, you will meet people in crisis and/or with complex life situations. Therefore, you need to be able to convey hope, see possibilities, and treat people in a respectful and professional manner. The work involves many contact surfaces and requires both independence and good collaboration skills.

The position may in the future develop to also include case handling within the unit's other target groups. This provides the opportunity for broader competence and flexibility when the operation's needs change. A review of the unit's work will be carried out, which can create new opportunities and ways of working.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who have:

• A degree in Social Work or another academic education that the employer deems equivalent
• Experience in authority exercises and documented knowledge of current legislation
• Case handling within the target group of persons with intellectual, physical, and/or mental disabilities
• Category B driver's license
• Good ability to express yourself well in speech and writing in Swedish

It is meritorious if you have experience of:

• Case handling based on IBIC
• Work in the operation systems Combine and Cosmic Link/Visiba Care
• Case handling within elderly, harmful use and addiction, or violence in close relationships (perpetrators)

To thrive and succeed in the role, you need to:

• Be able to work independently and structured
• Be flexible and quickly adapt to changed conditions
• Have good collaboration skills and interest in cooperation
• Be able to adapt your communication based on who you meet
• Be able to handle periods of high workload

We are looking for you who see possibilities in development and want to contribute to a legally secure case handling, a good work climate, and collaboration. We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

Interviews are planned to be held in week 32-33.

Employment type: Permanent employment.
Duration: Start date: 2026-09-01 Or according to agreement.

We strive for a balanced gender distribution and see diversity as a strength, therefore welcoming applicants with different backgrounds.

All candidates called for an interview must verify their identity at the interview by presenting an identity document (passport or national ID card issued by the Police Authority).

If you are not a citizen of Sweden, the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, you must show that you have a valid work permit or are exempt from the obligation to have a work permit. In connection with employment, you also need to prove your citizenship. You can do this with a passport or alternatively a certificate of residence together with an identity document. Employment can only take place after control of the work permit, which is required according to the Alien Ordinance.

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We warmly welcome your application!