Employee for Social Psychiatry - Residential Support

Description:

Through our core values of courage, tolerance, and creativity, we work in Uppvidinge Municipality to provide excellent service and develop socially important functions for our residents, visitors, and businesses. Uppvidinge Municipality is the municipality's largest employer with approximately 800 employees. With us, we want our employees to feel highly involved and there should be room for flexibility and development. We offer meaningful work where together we have the opportunity to truly make a difference for the municipality's residents. Welcome with your application and welcome to a municipality with a thriving business community, a vibrant civil society, and proximity to nature! Do you want to work close to people and contribute to real change in everyday life? We are now looking for an employee for our team within social psychiatry residential support. The position belongs to the Adult and LSS unit within Individual and Family Care and LSS. The Department of Individual and Family Care and LSS (IFO) is part of the Welfare and Care Administration in Uppvidinge Municipality and consists of five units, each with their own unit manager. There are also two senior social workers who provide case-specific support and guidance. We work with both authority administration according to the Social Services Act, LSS, LVU and LVM, as well as implementation of services according to the Social Services Act and LSS. We want to make social work a field where people with competence, ambition, and heart can develop and create a stable foundation for social work that is constantly changing. We place great focus on creating stability, promoting creativity and courage, and want to give each employee the opportunity to grow and develop both personally and professionally to become the best version of themselves. We offer a workplace where we support each other and work from a holistic perspective. You will receive close leadership, case-specific support, and teamwork across unit boundaries. We work with developmental employment, the Swedish National Defence University's model, to create effective work teams with shared responsibility for those we serve, motivation in work, and employees' personal development. Development related to the new Social Services Act where preventive measures, flexibility, and collaboration are central, and we especially invest in developing support for parents with mental health issues and NPF through family-oriented residential support. Employment for people with psychiatric diagnoses to create meaningful activities and meeting places for community and well-being is also in focus. 1 position(s). DUTIES As an employee in residential support, you work close to people with mental health issues and/or NPF-related problems. You provide individually adapted support in daily life with a focus on strengthening independence, structure, and participation in society. The support can include planning and creating daily structure, motivating social contacts and activities, collaborating with other actors regarding the individual's needs, as well as family-oriented support when relevant. You work both independently and in a team in close collaboration with colleagues in other parts of IFO. QUALIFICATIONS You have education in social work, such as social worker, treatment pedagogue, social pedagogue, or other education that the employer considers equivalent. Experience in social work is a requirement, particularly in change work or work with the target group. Great emphasis is placed on personal suitability and interest in the target group within mental health and NPF-related issues. A B-driver's license is a requirement. We are looking for someone who is committed and passionate about social work. You need to be stress-resilient, persistent, and not afraid of challenges, as well as curious and a quick learner. You prefer to see possibilities rather than difficulties and enjoy the challenge of finding constructive solutions to complex problems. You are unpretentious and confident in yourself while also humble and attentive to others' perspectives. The position requires flexibility, that you are solution-focused and can work both independently and together with others to find sustainable solutions based on the individual's needs. We expect you to have good ability to prioritize and to ensure that what needs to be done gets done. Good treatment both in client contacts and in collaboration is self-evident for you. Salary form: Monthly salary. Employment type: Permanent employment. Duration: Permanent, start date: September 1, 2026 or by agreement. Working hours: Shift work. Scheduled working hours including some evenings and weekends If you become relevant for employment, the employer will request an extract from the criminal record register. The Municipal Council has decided that all new employees must present a criminal record extract before employment. The extract that must be presented is the extract for work in school or preschool. To ensure quality in the recruitment process in Uppvidinge Municipality and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally and not via email or paper format. In preparation for the recruitment work, Uppvidinge Municipality has taken a position on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore firmly decline contact with media sales representatives, recruitment websites, and similar.

Overview

Type

job

Status

active

Visibility

public

City

Lenhovda

Address

Storgatan 29

GPS

56.997003034936, 15.286797960805copyopen in

Phone

0474 - 472 74

Views

5

Published

18. 6. 2026

Edited

21. 6. 2026

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