Heard from colleagues in financial assistance:
"It's great to work as centrally as we do, close to the city center and proximity to the central station is excellent for commuters. Plus, Kristallen has a fantastic lunch restaurant!"
"You develop professionally when you meet different types of clients who can be in very tough situations. In the work, you learn to handle these difficult situations and sometimes make quick decisions."
"If you have a sense of humor, you'll thrive here. I have very fun colleagues and we laugh a lot."
About the role and responsibilities
We are looking for a social secretary to join a team working with ongoing financial assistance. The primary task as a social secretary in financial assistance involves, based on a motivational interviewing (MI) approach, contributing to self-sufficiency for individuals. During this time, we investigate, assess, and decide on the right to financial assistance according to the Social Services Act. The role involves collaboration with other relevant agencies, both internally and externally. We offer supervision and professional development through relevant training.
We are looking for you
We are looking for you with a social work degree and knowledge of applicable legislation in the field. We would like you to have experience working with financial support or other government authority work that the employer considers equivalent. Experience with motivational interviewing (MI) is a merit. To succeed in your role, you need to be solution-focused and see possibilities in people's potential to develop. You should have good collaboration skills and good conduct toward both people you meet at work and toward colleagues and external partners. You can quickly adapt your work and prioritize based on current circumstances. The tasks require you to be self-driven, but you also see your work team as an asset. The job also requires you to be organized and able to handle administrative tasks.
Good experience with IT systems and good ability to express yourself well in both speech and writing are necessary as the work includes documentation and administration.
We offer you
As an employee with us, you are offered a range of benefits with a focus on balance, security, and health. Lund Municipality is a large organization with many exciting operations and opportunities for employee development. As an employee, you also have access to our benefits portal where you can easily see your benefits and manage them.
This is what we give you as an employee
Welcome to us
With us, you get varied, independent, and important work helping Lund residents who need support to become self-sufficient. You receive thorough introduction to the work, good opportunities for skills development, and continuous support from your colleagues and manager. Our unit is characterized by a positive spirit and we are committed to finding the best support for our users.
Within the unit, we work together with individual Lund residents to find paths to self-sufficiency. We investigate and process financial support and offer budget and debt counseling. The unit is divided into teams working with different target groups. The teams are self-driven and very innovative. We work in Lund Municipality's office building Kristallen using an activity-based approach. Our working method is continuously developing to better meet Lund residents' needs, and we hope you want to be part of helping us become even better.
About the recruitment process
The advertisement concerns a temporary position for 12 months with possible extension. In this recruitment process, we have chosen to remove the personal letter and replaced it with selection questions to contribute to inclusive and equal recruitment. Your answers will be an important part of our selection process.
Your application documents are public documents and are handled according to the principle of public access. If you have a decision regarding protected personal data, we ask you to contact the advertiser's contact person for an alternative path.
Welcome to submit your application no later than 2026-08-15. Any interview will take place during week 34!
About the workplace
We are part of the employment and social administration where approximately 600 employees provide support to Lund residents who need social services. Together, we ensure that children and young people get as good an upbringing as possible. We start from the whole family's situation and that no one should be harmed. It is about providing support to adults with harmful substance use and addiction or mental disabilities, to those who need financial assistance, guardianship, administrators or support to be able to study or work, and to refugees.
Here you have space to grow. Within Lund Municipality, we put knowledge at the center and create opportunities to develop in working life. We offer an inclusive work environment and the chance to make an impact and make a difference. Do you want to be one of us?Heard from colleagues in financial assistance:
"It's great to work as centrally as we do, close to the city center and proximity to the central station is excellent for commuters. Plus, Kristallen has a fantastic lunch restaurant!"
"You develop professionally when you meet different types of clients who can be in very tough situations. In the work, you learn to handle these difficult situations and sometimes make quick decisions."
"If you have a sense of humor, you'll thrive here. I have very fun colleagues and we laugh a lot."
About the role and responsibilities
We are looking for a social…