Benefits Assessor, Elderly Care

Dals-Eds kommun · plný úvazek

Ed, Švédsko

Dals-Eds kommun, located in the beautiful Dalsland region—"Sweden in miniature"—has approximately 4,600 residents, with 3,000 in the Ed town center. We are an attractive employer offering development for both individuals and the organization. We value trust, security, and care. Our ability to create a pleasant work environment and maintain organizational flexibility determines our success in the future. We offer well-functioning services with good connections to, for example, Oslo and Gothenburg. Did you know we also have excellent commuting options from Trollhättan, Vänersborg, and Uddevalla with travel times of 40-60 minutes, and that several of our employees commute to our fantastic workplace daily? For more information about the municipality, visit www.dalsed.se We offer you work in a small municipality that is innovative, digitalized, and development-oriented. You will work at a pleasant workplace with regular meetings with colleagues from neighboring municipalities and continuous professional development. Working at Dals-Eds kommun should be developing and beneficial, so we also offer flexible working hours, wellness hours, or wellness allowance. Remote work is possible if operations allow. The Benefits Unit in Dals-Ed is a smaller operation within the municipality's Authority Unit, which also includes Individual and Family Services (IFO). Immediately around you are 2 other benefits assessors with whom you have close collaboration. Beyond that, there are colleagues within IFO for cooperation when needed. The Authority Unit is led by a Manager and Senior Social Secretary. There is close collaboration with operational units such as home care, short-term care, and municipal primary healthcare. JOB RESPONSIBILITIES: We are looking for you to work with investigating needs, making decisions, and following up on interventions granted according to the Social Services Act (SoL), focused on care and elderly services. You collaborate closely both internally and externally with care personnel, relatives, and other stakeholders. The work is varied and meaningful, and you make a real difference in people's daily lives. You are also part of our collective quality and development work to strengthen and enhance both operations and support for our service users. The position is a permanent full-time employment with start date by agreement. As a benefits assessor, you are responsible for investigating, assessing needs, and making decisions about the right to interventions according to the Social Services Act (SoL). The target group is people under and over 65 years old who need interventions within care and elderly services. The work tasks include both personal meetings with the individual as well as with relatives, other authorities, and care providers. You are also responsible for following up on granted interventions. Documentation is important in our work and occurs in the Lifecare system where we base ourselves on IBIC (Individual's Needs in Focus). You shall also provide early support and guidance, and advice to service users and relatives. QUALIFICATIONS: We are looking for you with a degree in social work or another academic degree that the employer deems equivalent. You have experience working with case management and documentation according to the Social Services Act, you should be well familiar with the laws governing the operations and have the courage to apply them. You must be able to work independently and in a structured manner. Being flexible is important as prioritization of work is essential. You have respectful interaction and communication both verbally and in writing. Experience working with Lifecare and IBIC as well as SAMSA is meritorious. A Class B driver's license is required. EMPLOYMENT TERMS: Permanent employment Start date by agreement Employment level 100% Work scheduled during daytime hours Individual and differentiated salary setting applies Collective agreement: the agreement area's Main Agreement with associated General Terms and its appendices apply. INFORMATION: See contact persons below. Union representatives can be reached via the municipality's switchboard 0534-19000 APPLICATION: To ensure the quality of the recruitment process, we ask you to submit your application together with a CV, etc., digitally and not via email or paper format. To protect your privacy, we ask applicants to avoid sensitive personal information in the documents you send us. This includes, for example, personal identification numbers and information that can be linked to ethnic origin, family situation, religion, health, political or union engagement. You apply via the link *Apply* by no later than 2026-09-13. We welcome your application! We decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this posting.