Care and Support Coordinator to the Social Services Department

We are Varberg Municipality, the employer that sees the possibilities in you. With us, you get to make a difference, both for others and for yourself. With the help of knowledge, innovative thinking, forward momentum, and courage, we together move toward our vision of being the Creative Center of the West Coast. Welcome to join us! The Unit for Harmful Substance Use, Addiction, and Social Psychiatry is part of the Social Services Department and provides services for adults with harmful substance use, addiction, and/or psychosocial problems. The unit encompasses activities such as supported housing for adults, co-morbidity housing, accommodations with special services, addiction units, and residential support. The Assignment Many clients have complex problems with various diagnoses, mental health issues, and active harmful substance use and addiction, and are unable to meet the requirements needed to move forward in the process. This could involve obtaining mobile banking ID, maintaining healthcare contacts, attending scheduled appointments, etc. These individuals need support and assistance in removing obstacles, navigating counterforces/risks such as relapse, interrupted medication, and similar challenges. The Care and Support Coordinator has a special assignment to guide and support the client practically. The overarching goal is to shorten the length of stay in supported housing, short-term placements, or to reduce the number of recurring, short placements and treatments, and to achieve a more sustainable solution in the long term. Within the framework of assistance decisions, you work in close collaboration with colleagues and placing social workers. 1 position(s). WORK TASKS As a Care and Support Coordinator, your task is to map and make accessible the support the client needs, while also providing practical support yourself. To succeed, you need good perseverance and very good collaboration and initiative skills, and you must be able to independently plan, implement, and follow up on interventions. Practical support may include, for example, making phone contacts and accompanying the client to physical meetings. You support the client in contact with various authorities, healthcare, and other necessary contacts. You assist in obtaining documents and records. You need to support/help the client gain an understanding of society. In supporting the client to find strategies and opportunities, Motivational Interviewing is the guiding approach. To succeed in your work, you need to establish good collaboration and cooperation internally and externally, and be flexible in your approach. As a Care and Support Coordinator, you are expected to participate in development work and have an understanding of what it means to work in an organization undergoing development. You believe that change is possible and can convey calm and a positive feeling to clients even during difficult circumstances. QUALIFICATIONS Qualifications The position requires a degree in social pedagogy or other higher education deemed equivalent by the employer. VOSS training is meritorious. Experience • Experience working with the target group • Experience with and interest in co-morbidity • Experience working within social services • Experience with collaboration between various actors relevant to the target group As a Care and Support Coordinator, you must have personal maturity, be self-driven while maintaining close collaboration with colleagues and supervisors in the affected operations where you receive support and where you share each other's competencies to provide clients with the best possible support. Great weight will be placed on personal suitability. Other Information • You work primarily Monday to Friday, office hours, but work at other times may occur depending on the nature of the assignment. • The work involves travel by public transportation and sometimes by car. A driver's license is a requirement. Salary form: Monthly salary. Employment form: Fixed-term employment. Duration: Start date: 2026-09-30 Start date by agreement, End date: 2027-05-31. For your application to function correctly in our recruitment system, we ask all applicants, including internal candidates, to use a private email address when applying. Varberg Municipality welcomes diversity and sees differences as a strength. We hope that you as an applicant can contribute with your background and expertise. Welcome to read more about what it's like to work with us at: https://varberg.se/jobb-och-foretagande/jobb-praktik-och-ideellt-arbete/till-dig-som-ska-borja-hos-oss Before employment, you must be able to demonstrate that you have the right to work in Sweden, for example through citizenship in the EU/EEA/Switzerland or a valid permit to stay and work here, or an exemption from it. This position requires a driver's license for manual and automatic transmission vehicles. If you become a candidate for the position, we will ask you to provide a copy of an extract from the criminal record register before employment can begin.

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