Social Worker for Joint Reception in Motala

Do you want to become our new colleague? In Motala, Östergötland's city of lakes, we are open, proud, and innovative. Our municipality is the right place to contribute, develop, and thrive. With a responsible mandate, we adapt to changes and act for the development of a sustainable lakeside life in Motala Municipality.

Together we make life better!

The Social Services Department is responsible for measures, support, and services to individuals and families in the municipality. Our operations are primarily governed by the Social Services Act, the Act on Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments (LSS), and the Health and Medical Services Act, and are to implement measures regulated by these laws. All operations are characterized by putting the individual at the center to meet the individual's needs. The assignment implies a strong customer focus and service spirit.

At the Individual and Family Care unit, official cases within various parts of social services are processed. Here you will also find outpatient care for adults, children, and families. We are a workplace with approximately 180 employees, both men and women of varying ages and years in the profession. We strive for a workplace with legally secure case processing for our clients/users and a good working environment for our employees.

Our vision is that everyone should feel satisfied in their contact with us.

To create job satisfaction, good quality in work, and a good working environment, we offer clear leadership, a clear and known salary policy, and a secure workplace.

We offer you a workplace focused on development. The municipality also offers flexible working hours and fitness subsidies. We have a working time agreement that offers free sandwich days (days between a holiday and a weekend) and half-days before public holidays. You also have the opportunity to exchange vacation days.

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WORK ASSIGNMENTS

As a social worker in the Joint Reception, you, together with your colleagues, will be the link between the municipality's residents and social services. The work involves receiving, sorting, prioritizing, and assessing the information that comes in to subsequently forward it for intervention without individual needs assessment or investigation. Joint Reception will in the future handle cases regarding children and youth, family law, and adults, which means a great variation and breadth in your daily work.

Applications, reports, inquiries, and information in other ways come directly to the Joint Reception from the municipality's residents as well as from authorities and other collaboration partners. It is your and your colleagues' task to receive these and make an initial assessment. Together with your colleagues, you are also responsible for being social services' face and voice outwardly to provide information about social services' work and mandate.

The Joint Reception was established in May 2025 and has gradually taken over the reception function for different target groups. Previously, the target groups children and youth, family law, and eviction prevention functions have been included in the Joint Reception, and next in line is the adult target group. We are now looking for you who have experience of official enforcement within harmful substance use, violence in close relationships, homelessness, and crime to complement our current team based on the upcoming area of responsibility.

The work group currently consists of six case workers, one senior social worker, and a unit manager who is also responsible for another work group. One of the case workers in the work group has specific responsibility for eviction prevention work, while the remaining case workers work with all work assignments included in the mandate. The work group is today a mixed group in relation to previous experience, age, and gender.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for you who are educated as a social worker or have another university education that the employer considers equivalent. You have at least two years of experience in official enforcement, preferably with the adult target group. Experience of working with children and youth as well as family law is meritorious. We also see that you have broad experience from Individual and Family Care (IFO), where you have worked with both early preventive measures and outpatient care measures.

We are looking for you who are:

• Secure and stable in yourself. You can handle stress in a constructive way and maintain a good and professional attitude and mood even in pressured situations.
• Calm, listening, and accommodating in your approach. You have interest, willingness, and ability to help others and work actively for positive collaboration.
• Adapt easily and shift based on emerging needs, requirements, or conditions.

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

Read more about our benefits and working in Motala Municipality at motala.se/arbete (https://www.motala.se/arbete).

To read more about the municipality in general, visit motala.se (https://www.motala.se).

Appointment is subject to due decisions.

Please respect that we decline all direct contact from staffing and recruitment agencies with which we do not have agreements, as well as sellers of additional job postings.