Benefits Counselor - Sick Leave for Personal Assistants, Huddinge Municipality

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Do you value closeness, growth, and creating the best conditions for all who live and work in Huddinge Municipality? Then we offer numerous career opportunities in a well-functioning and growing municipality with both nature and big-city pulse around the corner. With us, you feel secure, included, and proud as we make a difference with strength every day. In Huddinge Municipality, we work to create a sustainable society where nature, technology, and good service interact. Huddinge is a large Stockholm municipality with approximately 6,400 employees and more than 110,000 residents. If you have protected personal information, we ask you to contact the contact person specified in the job posting. Huddinge Municipality works to be a safe, lawful, and professional operation. As part of our recruitment process, we may therefore conduct background checks and request register extracts in the final stages of certain recruitments. If you become relevant for this, you will receive clear information and the opportunity to give your consent before the check is conducted. The Social Services Administration is responsible for individual and family care, elderly care, and care for people with disabilities. We work preventatively with support, services, and authority exercises for children, young people, families, adults, elderly people, and people with disabilities. Our mission is to increase individuals' opportunities to live under the best possible living conditions and to strengthen individuals to live independent lives. We are a social service that is at the forefront of prevention work and transition work toward an even more accessible and knowledge-based social service. 1 position(s). Benefits Counselor LSS – Sick Leave We are seeking a benefits counselor for the LSS Children and Youth unit at the Social Services Administration. Permanent employment. Full-time, start date by agreement. About the Position The LSS Children and Youth unit is responsible for authority exercises under LSS and the Social Services Act for children and young people with disabilities. The unit consists of approximately eight employees and is located centrally in Huddinge centrum. Our mission is to ensure lawful decisions, good quality, and efficient processing. The workplace is characterized by an open climate, high engagement, and a clear responsibility culture. We value employees who take personal responsibility, drive their work forward, and contribute to the development of the operation. The position is conducted independently and is organizationally placed in the unit but involves a task that largely impacts the entire section. About the Assignment The assignment includes, among other things, processing reimbursement for sick leave for personal assistants and reviewing and monitoring invoices related to assistance. The work involves examining and assessing documentation related to sick leave reimbursement for personal assistants. This includes verifying that sick leave costs claimed for reimbursement are correctly reported and comply with applicable legislation, guidelines, and reimbursement levels. The assignment includes analyzing documentation, following up on invoices, and ensuring that additional costs during personal assistants' sick leave are reasonable and correctly handled. An important part of the work is also to identify discrepancies in documentation and reimbursement claims and to work systematically with monitoring and control. The role involves significant personal responsibility. You are expected to plan, prioritize, and drive your cases forward while ensuring that processing maintains high quality and good efficiency. Qualifications The assignment requires: A degree in social work or another relevant academic education that the employer considers equivalent. Experience in investigating sick leave within personal assistance and investigating all LSS services. You have good computer skills and can express yourself well orally and in writing. We are looking for someone who is organized, thorough, and analytical. You need to have good ability to organize and prioritize your work and be comfortable in a role where the pace is periodically high and where you yourself are responsible for driving your work forward. Meriting Factors It is meriting if you have: experience with authority exercises experience with financial monitoring or auditing experience with documentation in the Lifecare system knowledge of the IBIC investigation methodology Personal Qualities We are looking for someone who is confident in your professional role and has good judgment in your assessments. You work independently, are thorough, and have good analytical ability. You have integrity in your work and can make decisions based on legislation and documentation, even in complex cases. Great weight will be placed on personal suitability. Why Huddinge? For us to fulfill our mission, you as an employee at Huddinge Municipality are the most important thing we have. Therefore, we offer a range of benefits for a sustainable working life and to make your daily life easier: https://www.huddinge.se/arbete-och-karriar/arbeta-i-huddinge-kommun/#Formaner Union Contact Person For union contact person for the position, see Union Contact Information Information For questions about the position, please contact Joel Solomon, Unit Manager Phone: 08-535 378 62 To ensure we can handle all applications in the best way, we ask you to apply directly through our posted positions. We do not accept spontaneous applications via email. For this position, you need to be able to provide a valid extract from the criminal record register before employment can begin. The position is filled subject to the required decisions being made. Interviews may begin during the advertising period. Welcome to submit your application. Employment Form: Permanent employment. Duration: Permanent.

Overview

Type

job

Status

active

Visibility

public

City

Huddinge

Address

Patron Pehrs väg 10

GPS

59.237264659683, 17.978319675817copyopen in

Phone

08-535 378 62

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4

Published

18. 6. 2026

Edited

21. 6. 2026

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