Social Secretary for the Housing Unit

Mölndals kommun · Full-time

Mölndal, Sweden

In Mölndal Municipality, we are proud to have Sweden's most important jobs where we work together to create the best possible everyday life for our citizens. With knowledge, courage, and creativity, we develop our operations and contribute to making Mölndal an even better place to live and work. Welcome to make a difference in people's daily lives every day! The Social and Labor Market Administration provides Mölndal residents with support, security, and new opportunities. The administration is responsible for child and family care, refugee reception, and labor market initiatives. Our ambition is for every resident of Mölndal to feel seen and secure, and to be able to trust that their rights are protected. Through collaboration, courage, and attentive treatment, we want to contribute to Mölndal residents being able to live independent lives and have the opportunity to build their futures. Together with other actors, we work towards a sustainable society with a strong focus on early and preventive work. We want to be a social service that exists where Mölndal residents are. The Housing Unit has a unified mandate for housing matters, involving both authority functions and service delivery related to the social service's responsibility for housing provision and eviction prevention work. The city's budget and debt counseling is also organized under the unit. We are now seeking a social secretary as our current colleague is moving on to a new assignment. 1 position(s). JOB RESPONSIBILITIES The unit's work is directed toward a broad target group that is experiencing or at risk of homelessness. However, we are not responsible for housing solutions for individuals with needs for care and treatment due to substance abuse issues, extensive psychiatric problems, or criminality. In your professional role, you combine authority functions with active outreach and advisory work to prevent evictions. You investigate and make decisions regarding the right to housing support services and financial assistance for individuals experiencing structural homelessness. Parts of your advisory work are conducted as interventions without needs assessment. You actively work with processes, develop action plans and assignments. You support individuals toward independence. You will work closely with housing support workers who handle contract follow-up, apartment searches, and housing planning. Internal and external collaboration is a major part of your work. This includes, for example, external collaboration with landlords and the enforcement authority. QUALIFICATIONS We are looking for you who are a social worker (socionom). You must have previous work experience with authority functions within social services. It is advantageous if you have investigated the right to housing services or assistance for overnight accommodation. You should be interested in and well familiar with housing issues within social services. You should also have experience working with socially vulnerable individuals. You are accustomed to documentation and have ease in expressing yourself in speech and writing. If you have experience with the data support system Treserva, that is an advantage. You are a structured and solution-focused person with the will and ability to independently organize your work. At the same time, you are attentive and have a professional approach with the assignment and the user in focus. Since collaboration is an important part, we want you to have a holistic perspective and be skilled at creating and maintaining good relationships with other collaborative partners. Great weight is placed on personal suitability. As an employee of Mölndal Municipality, you receive a wellness allowance of 2500 kr/year. Selection and interviews may take place continuously during the advertising period. Welcome to submit your application today! Employment form: Permanent employment. Duration: Permanent, start date: As soon as possible or by agreement. We see diversity as a strength and therefore welcome applicants with different backgrounds. Before an offer of employment, excerpts from the criminal record register will be requested. We want to inform you that your application is a public document according to the principle of public access. If you have protected personal data, you should NOT apply through the system but contact the responsible recruiting manager for handling of your application. Contact details can be found in the advertisement. Before a possible employment, we will verify citizenship. If you are not a citizen of Sweden, EU, EES, or Switzerland, you must be able to present a valid residence/work permit or demonstrate that you are exempt from the requirement to have a work permit. In certain positions, digital identification (e.g., BankID) is required to perform work tasks. The identification is used only to confirm your identity in the systems. In connection with the recruitment process, we have taken a position on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore firmly decline contact from media sales, recruitment sites, and similar. Want to know where we are located? See the workplace on map here