Social Secretary IFO Adult

Nybro kommun · plný úvazek

Nybro, Švédsko

Nybro Municipality is an expanding municipality in the Småland glass region with approximately 20,000 residents. Here you'll find large and small companies, primarily in the glass, wood, and paper industries—several of them world leaders in their respective sectors. The municipality has a strategic location between the three regional centers Kalmar, Karlskrona, and Växjö. Communications are good with railway and an airport within three miles. In Nybro Municipality, you have the opportunity to choose attractive housing with beautiful environments in the city or countryside. Opportunities for recreation and outdoor activities are excellent as it's never far to nature. Nybro Municipality's vision is "With security, curiosity, and innovative thinking, we build a new bridge to the future's larger Nybro." On nybro.se, you can read about what it's like to work in Nybro Municipality and learn about the benefits we offer our employees: https://nybro.se/jobb-foretagande/nybro-kommun-som-arbetsgivare/ The Individual and Family Administration is responsible for services according to the Social Services Act and the Act Concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments (LSS), covering individual and family care and care for people with disabilities. Municipal residents in need of social services can receive advice, support, and assistance. In most cases, our assistance and services are provided following an individual assessment as part of our authority functions. We aim for the services we provide to lead to independence. The operations focus on services for children, young people, and their parents, substance abuse issues, violence in close relationships, people with disabilities who need support in their daily lives, people in need of maintenance support, labor market measures, rehabilitation, and integration. IFO Adult is responsible for investigating, deciding on, and implementing services for adults who need support for financial difficulties, harmful use and addiction, violence in close relationships/honor-related violence, and family member support. IFO Adult also handles the reception of newly arrived residents and the eviction prevention work in the municipality. IFO Adult consists of 22 employees divided into two work groups: IFO Adult reception/investigation and housing social team, and IFO Adult services. IFO Adult is led by a head of operations, two unit managers, and two senior social secretaries. The leadership team's focus is to provide close work management so that you as a social secretary can develop and become confident and independent in your professional role. As a new employee at IFO Adult, you'll receive a basic introduction tailored to your previous experience. In addition to the work group's regular case meetings twice a week, you'll also receive individual supervision from a senior social secretary. IFO Adult is now seeking a temporary social secretary to handle maintenance support in our services team. At IFO Adult, we strive to offer services based on a salutogenic approach. Services should strengthen the individual's own ability and initiative to influence and change their situation. Our approach is therefore characterized by "help to self-help." 1 position(s). DUTIES As a social secretary in the services team, you will work with services aimed at breaking assistance dependency to support clients toward self-support and independence. Services may be directed toward the labor market/studies or toward other permanent benefits. Following an assessment of the individual's life situation, there may be a need for additional services to help the person toward independence. As a social secretary, you have an important role in establishing contact and linking such services for the individual. Planning is done jointly with the client, and we actively work with implementation plans to support the individual forward. The assignment includes authority functions through handling of economic assistance and establishing an individual plan for the activity requirement in maintenance support. A large part of the work consists of internal and external cooperation to create conditions for comprehensive support for the individual. QUALIFICATIONS We seek someone with a social work degree or equivalent education that the employer deems equivalent. You have experience exercising authority within maintenance support. You have good collaboration and communication skills, can express yourself well in speech and writing, are responsible, and can work independently with support from management. You work efficiently and systematically under stress, can balance different demands, and remain calm in difficult situations. You enjoy working in an organization undergoing development and change, and where cooperation with other actors is a given for success. Great importance is placed on personal suitability. It is a requirement to have work experience and professional experience, as well as a Class B driver's license. Interviews may be conducted continuously during the application period. Welcome with your application. Employment form: Fixed-term employment. Duration: Start date: According to agreement. End date: 2027-08-31. Working hours: Daytime. We ask that you apply for the position through the link in this ad to facilitate our handling of incoming applications. 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