Legal Counsel for the Social Services Office

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As a legal counsel on the social services office staff, you will work for the social services office together with your colleague with a focus on social law, but you will also support operations and politicians within broad welfare law. Your assignment includes everything from strengthening and supporting case handlers in legal matters to representing the municipality in court. This is a broad and varied role where your work tasks will cover different areas of law such as confidentiality legislation, LVU, SoL, FB, and LVM. Within your area of responsibility is also serving as the social services office's data protection officer (DPO). As a data protection officer, you represent the data controller and coordinate the office's data protection work. Your work tasks - Represent the board in court - Provide support and advice to operations in case preparation and drafting statements, etc. - Present matters to the board - Act as an advisor in individual cases at board committee meetings - Monitor developments regarding laws and regulations - Conduct training for operations - Data protection officer Who are you? To succeed in this assignment, you need to have experience working with social law and good knowledge of and understanding of the political process that governs municipal and public operations. Requirements: - You have a law degree and several years of professional experience. - You have good knowledge of municipal law, administrative law, as well as other laws and regulations governing social services operations. - You have excellent written and oral proficiency in Swedish. Merits: - You have completed notary service and/or have experience as a court advocate. - Experience working at a central level within a municipality or other politically governed operation. Personal qualities: - As a person, you are outgoing, take initiative, and are passionate about representing and driving matters within your area of responsibility. - You are responsible, have good collaboration skills, an open approach, and adapt easily to changed circumstances. - Good ability to work independently while having an aptitude for building good relationships. - You work efficiently and have the ability to prioritize and maintain accuracy even under time pressure. We place great emphasis on your personal qualities. We offer you Work where you contribute to creating conditions for citizens who need society's support. You as an employee are our most important asset. We offer you a workplace where you have great opportunities to influence your and our shared future. Here we have an open culture and value the qualities that diversity brings to operations. We make use of your creativity and commitment and encourage you to come up with ideas and challenge established ways of working, always with a focus on the citizen. Your participation in development work and changes is a given. Within all operations, the ambition is to work sustainably through quality work, methodological development, digitalization, and competence development. As an employee at Södertälje Municipality, you are offered a secure employment, good employment terms and working environment, competence development, and several benefits. Feel free to read more about us on our website and for more information about our benefits: https://www.sodertalje.se/kommun-och-politik/jobba-hos-oss/formaner/ The Social Services Office has approximately 700 employees and is organized in four operational areas. You will be part of the social services office staff of 19 people with colleagues who are system administrators, digitalization developers, economists, operations strategists, legal counsels, administrators, and case handlers at the Licensing Unit. Our mission is to provide service and be available for all who need support, help, and care. We actively work to create a workplace that gives all employees the right conditions to do a good job and offers work that matters. We are located in the city hall's modern premises near the city center and public transportation. Welcome to us! Other information Selection and interviews may take place continuously during the application period. Södertälje Municipality uses competence-based recruitment methodology in order to counteract discrimination and promote diversity in the workplace. We have many positions where we conduct background checks. A record excerpt (criminal and suspicion register) from the Police Authority may therefore need to be submitted by the candidate before a decision on employment. An employment with us may involve placement in a security classification. A security vetting with a background check according to the Security Protection Act (2018:585) may therefore be conducted before a decision on employment. For some of our work tasks in security classification, Swedish citizenship is required.As a legal counsel on the social services office staff, you will work for the social services office together with your colleague with a focus on social law, but you will also support operations and politicians within broad welfare law. Your assignment includes everything from strengthening and supporting case handlers in legal matters to representing the municipality in court. This is a broad and varied role where your work tasks will cover different areas of law such as confidentiality legislation, LVU, SoL, FB, and LVM. Within your area of responsibility is also serving as the social…

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public

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Södertälje

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Nyköpingsvägen 26

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59.1738517, 17.5318456kopírovatotevřít v ▾

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6

Publikováno

27. 7. 2026

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5. 8. 2026

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