Business description

Do you want to be part of something exciting, educational and developing work. We can offer you a varied and challenging job with good development opportunities and the opportunity to refresh your knowledge. In Gällivare municipality, we have a unit with all authority exercise in the areas of social services. The assistance unit has implemented an organizational change where an activity with two Operations Managers has been introduced, one for the group of children and young people and one for the group of adults, in addition we have a coordinator within each group.

The adult unit consists of social secretaries who investigate substance abuse, social psychiatry/social support, domestic violence and employment/self-sufficiency as well as social secretaries for elderly care. We also handle financial assistance and estates. The adult unit includes a family center and outpatient care for adult addiction. We are now looking for a person who wants to work with the exercise of authority in elderly care. The position in elderly care is a 100% temporary position, where the unit has reduced working hours and has great support from experienced colleagues.

Tasks

As an authority practitioner in elderly care, you are responsible for investigating, assessing and deciding on interventions according to the Social Services Act together with the individual. You work from a holistic approach where the individual's ability and sense of meaningfulness are taken into account. As an employee, you focus on quality, development and legal certainty with a focus on the individual, based on the Social Services Act. The service is focused on investigation in elderly care where you make assessments of needs and various assistance such as home care, special housing and short-term housing. We work according to IBIC and the work is based on the SoL - Social Services Act. In the work at the unit, we collaborate with other colleagues in our business and with other partners.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who are a social worker or have another experience that the employer considers equivalent. You should be able to work independently with case management and you should have good knowledge of current legislation.
As a person, you have good social skills, and are easy to cooperate with others but also able to work independently. You should have empathy and be able to communicate easily with users, relatives and colleagues. It is positive if you are easy to handle when conditions and planning change in the work and that you can be flexible based on the needs that arise in the work. It is important that you enjoy expressing yourself in writing and that you have good ability to express yourself in both speech and writing. We see that you can contribute to developing working methods and your approach should be characterized by commitment, drive and the ability to take responsibility. Great emphasis is placed on personal suitability.

Gällivare municipality is an administrative municipality for Sami, Meänkieli and Finnish under the National Minority Languages Act. Knowledge of any of these languages is an advantage when applying for employment in Gällivare municipality.

Other

We would like to receive a CV with your application. Original documents will be provided on request. Interviews may take place on a rolling basis.

Gällivare municipality offers our fixed-term, longer-term and permanent employees the opportunity to:

• Take part in wellness: strength training and group training, Dundret
• Free bath
• One wellness hour per/week
• The assistance unit has since February 1, 2022 established working time reduction, with 2.5 hours shorter working hours per week for full-time work.
• We invest in close leadership and coordinators for supervision every week.

Do you want to know more about what it is like to work, live and live in Gällivare municipality? Then you can read more here: Jobs, internships and volunteer work in Gällivare municipality (gallivare.se)

Working hours/Duration

Full-time, temporary. From: 2025-08-30 tom: 2026-07-30

Salary

Monthly salary, we apply individual salary setting - please state your salary claim in the application.

Access / Application

Access: according to agreement

Last day of application: 2025-05-20

Information

Head of Adult Operations Lena Olsson 0970-818392

Union representatives

Vision

Akademikerförbundet SSR

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