About this role
About the Role and Your Responsibilities
With us, you will have a varied, independent, and important job working with adult Lund residents with diverse challenges.
You will receive a comprehensive introduction to the work, excellent opportunities for skills development, and continuous support from your colleagues and manager. Our unit is characterized by a positive spirit, and we are committed to providing the best support for our clients. At the Resource Unit, you will encounter clients with varying challenges such as harmful substance use and addiction and/or psychosocial problems, as well as clients in crisis. In your role as a social counselor, you have an important supportive and motivational assignment, both in the acute phase and in long-term work. You will collaborate with other functions within the social administration and with other actors and authorities.
The unit offers a wide range of interventions and methods that we continuously evaluate to meet the target group's needs. The work includes documentation and follow-up of your interventions, and you will often work closely with other actors within and outside our administration. As a social counselor, you will primarily work within our outpatient treatment, where we offer individual and group support for people with harmful substance use and addiction. The unit provides interventions both with and without needs assessment. The work takes place at the municipal building Kristallen, in our own outpatient facility centrally located in Lund, and at other locations where the target group is found.
We Are Looking for You
We are seeking someone with a social work degree and experience in social work. We want someone with experience working in social services with harmful substance use and addiction.
We consider it meritorious if you have experience with methods such as Motivational Interviewing (MI), Relapse Prevention (RP), Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET), Community Reinforcement Approach (CRA), Gambling Addiction Treatment, or Community Reinforcement Approach and Family Training (CRAFT).
We Offer You
As an employee with us, you will be offered a range of benefits focused on balance, security, and health. Lund Municipality is a large organization with many exciting activities and opportunities for employee development. As an employee, you also get access to our benefits portal where you can easily view and manage your benefits.
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About the Workplace
We offer a dynamic workplace with varied tasks. Work takes place during daytime hours. We apply flexible working hours and provide subsidized wellness activities. As a social counselor with us, you will receive regular external supervision and other skills development opportunities.
Additional Information
Your application documents are public documents and will be handled according to the principle of public access. If you have a decision on protected personal information, please contact the advertisement's contact person for alternative application methods.
We are part of the Labor Market and Social Administration where approximately 600 employees provide support to Lund residents who need social services. Together, we ensure that children and young people have the best possible upbringing. We start from the entire family's situation and ensure that no one comes to harm. This involves providing support to adults with harmful substance use and addiction or mental functional impairments, those who need financial assistance, guardianship, management, or support to study or work, as well as refugees.
Here, you have room to grow. In Lund Municipality, we place knowledge at the center and create opportunities to develop in working life. We offer an inclusive work environment and a chance to influence and make a difference. Would you like to become one of us?