Vacant job

Job Description

As a Social Secretary (Socialsekreterare) for the target group of elderly or other ages in need of interventions, you will handle cases according to the Social Services Act. The most common interventions are home help services, care and nursing homes, short-term accommodation, and day activities. IBIC - Individual Needs at the Center is applied. Your task will be to investigate, assess, and make decisions regarding interventions, as well as follow up on home help decisions. You will also have contact with customers and their relatives, as well as close collaboration with other social secretaries and group managers. In addition, you will collaborate with our providers, primary care, and inpatient care.

Our goals align with Danderyd Municipality's strategic areas: high quality, great choice, high efficiency, high attractiveness, and strong development. Development areas that you and the department will be involved in include the new Social Services Act, the municipality's digital strategy and welfare technology, evidence-based, preventive approach, a proactive and even more accessible social service. Currently, we are focusing on Individual-based Systematic Follow-up (ISU) and improving our business system.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who:

• holds a degree in Social Work (socionom) or has another academic education considered equivalent.
• has several years of experience working as a benefit case worker/social secretary within elderly care in the near future.
• has good knowledge of current legislation.
• has good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written.

You show great commitment and interest in the target groups. You are confident in your professional role and are attentive and solution-focused. You are flexible and adapt easily, can handle work peaks, and accept supervision to help prioritize. You are accustomed to working in a structured and independent manner. You express yourself well in speech and writing and have very good collaboration skills. You have an interest in developing the business and contributing to continuous improvements. Great importance will also be placed on personal suitability.

About Danderyd Municipality

Do you want to be part of making Sweden's best municipality even better? Danderyd Municipality offers community, development, and participation at work. We make a difference and create value in everyday life in dialogue with everyone who lives, works, and operates here. Through proximity and short decision-making paths, you get the opportunity to take responsibility and work with both parts and the whole in your profession. Here we grow together with engaged citizens, businesses, and competent colleagues in the beautiful environment of the garden city. Take the step to a developing and sustainable working life in a medium-sized municipality close to everything.

Visit https://www.danderyd.se/ovriga-verksamheter/jobba/ (https://www.danderyd.se/ovriga-verksamheter/jobba/) to read more about the municipality's mission and future development. There you will also find information about our benefits and recruitment process.

To ensure quality in the recruitment process at Danderyd Municipality and enable good communication with our applicants, we request that you submit your application digitally as described above.

Diplomas/certificates and other documents should be brought to any potential interview.

We warmly welcome your application!

We decline all offers regarding advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this advertisement.

What We Offer

The Social Services Administration is in the midst of a cultural journey where we are jointly developing tomorrow's social services with a focus on quality, collaboration, and the needs of citizens. We invest in competence development through initiatives such as "Yrkesresan" and work in modern premises in Danderyd Center.

On the Elderly Department, 25 people work under the leadership of a department manager. The group you will belong to consists of area-responsible social secretaries, discharge planners, social secretaries responsible for follow-up in special housing, a person responsible for outreach work, housing coordinators, case handlers for transport services, national transport services, senior apartments/safety housing, and group managers. The department also includes case handlers for housing adaptation grants, fee handlers, administrative assistants, and the preventive unit with relatives' counselor, dementia coordinator, civil society coordinator, safety housing and senior meetings coordinator, welfare technology project manager, vision and hearing instructor, and group manager.

The Social Office is located in fresh premises in Danderyd Center, close to gyms, shopping, and lunch restaurants. We value an open and positive climate at the workplace. Danderyd Municipality offers health benefits and the possibility to exchange vacation pay.

Does this sound like something for you? We warmly welcome your application!

1 position(s).

Salary: Monthly salary.
Employment type: Permanent position.
Duration: Start date: By agreement. Probation period may apply.

Application deadline: August 28th. Selection is ongoing, so please send in your application as soon as possible.