Social Worker for Financial Assistance

Helsingborgs kommun · Freie Mitarbeit

Stortorget 17, Helsingborg, Schweden

Would you like to be part of creating a better future for Helsingborg's residents? We are now seeking engaged social workers for our financial assistance operations. With pleasant colleagues, exciting work tasks, and a workplace in the heart of Helsingborg, we offer a dynamic and developing environment where your contribution is crucial. Welcome to submit your application today! About the Workplace Future welfare is our great challenge. To address it, the employment administration has a very important mission: We must enable residents receiving financial assistance to become self-sufficient as quickly as possible, and also help employers find the right expertise. Additionally, we coordinate the city's work on migration and integration issues. We are approximately 400 colleagues in the administration, and our role is to provide residents with the right tools so they can take responsibility for their own development and livelihood. We meet the challenge with a broad range of adult education and labor market initiatives – and we test new ways of working together with the business community, other administrations, authorities, and civil society. To succeed, we must dare to innovate, test new approaches, and find smart solutions. We continuously develop the handling of financial assistance, which is now partially automated. A majority of our residents apply for financial assistance digitally, and we continue our work on digitalization, automation, and development of our work methods. Together with colleagues on the labor market side, we also develop our shared social work. Work Tasks As a social worker with us, you will primarily handle financial assistance cases, which may be both new applications and ongoing matters. You assess the right to assistance and communicate your decision to the resident. Working with residents' everyday finances is a natural and proactive part of the assignment and the social work. You will have extensive resident contact, both through face-to-face meetings and other forms of communication, and are expected to collaborate both within the administration and with other authorities. What We Offer Pleasant colleagues and exciting work tasks Structured introduction with a designated mentor A workplace where you are an important part of the whole Important, rewarding, and challenging work where your efforts can make a difference Opportunity for personal and professional development Structured support system and access to competent colleagues Generous wellness allowance Flexible working hours We are located in pleasant premises near the city park in central Helsingborg, just a short walk from Helsingborg C. Qualifications You need to have a degree in social work, experience using digital systems, and the ability to express yourself in speech and writing in Swedish. We would like you to have current experience working with financial assistance or experience in other government administration, and have good knowledge of various authorities' responsibilities in social matters. The following skills are relevant to succeed in this role. You need to be able to collaborate well with colleagues and residents, have a natural ability to build relationships and networks with different actors, be able to work according to given instructions, naturally adapt and respond to changing circumstances, and be able to deliver results. Great importance will be placed on your personal qualities. Before possible employment, you must provide a valid extract from the police criminal record register. You will receive more information if this becomes relevant for you. Recruiting will be ongoing, so you are warmly welcome to submit your application today! Working for Helsingborg City Would you like to help create a better city together with Helsingborg's residents? Then you should work for Helsingborg City. Here you can use your creativity and drive to make life easier and safer for our residents, visitors, and business community. Together with curious and helpful colleagues, you make a difference in people's lives, both today and in the future. A good job today, a better city tomorrow. You can read more about what it's like to work in the city here: https://helsingborg.se/arbete/sa-ar-det-att-jobba-i-staden/ Other Information We will invite candidates for employment interviews on an ongoing basis, and the position may be filled before the application deadline. You are therefore welcome to submit your application as soon as possible. Last application date: 2026-10-04. Recruitment may close before the last application date. Employment form: Contract position until 2027-08-31 with possibility of extension. Scope: Full-time Start date: By agreement Number of positions: 2 To ensure quality in Helsingborg City's recruitment process, we use the ReachMee recruitment tool. Therefore, we ask you to submit your application via ReachMee by clicking the application link in the announcement. Your CV and other relevant documents for the position should be attached to your application, such as educational certificates or professional credentials. You will also answer screening questions. If you do not receive a response from us, check your spam folder as emails sometimes get sorted there. If you are a job applicant with protected personal information, contact the recruiting manager listed in the announcement who will guide you through a secure application process. You should not apply digitally via the application link. Union representatives https://intranat.helsingborg.se/hr/samverkan-och-delaktighet/fackliga-foretradare/