About this role
Our 1,300 employees play an important role in the development and welfare of Sjöbo. We continuously strive to become a more attractive and equitable employer, offering our employees a wide range of wellness programs, smoke-free working hours, and flexible working hours where possible.
Within the healthcare and social services administration, we encompass elderly care, services for individuals with disabilities, municipal primary care, and the municipality's meal services.
The healthcare and social services administration in Sjöbo municipality operates under the vision of A Good Life Every Day for our customers.
Would you like to help drive quality development within healthcare and social services – and contribute to strengthening social services during a time of change? We are now looking for an engaged Socially Responsible Coordinator (SAS) who wants to shape the future of welfare!
**JOB DESCRIPTION**
As the Socially Responsible Coordinator, you will have a central and strategic role in the development of the healthcare and social services administration's work within elderly care, LSS (Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments), and social psychiatry. You will work with qualified investigative work, quality management, and business development in close collaboration with the authorities, managers, and operations.
You will be responsible for ensuring that the operations comply with applicable laws and regulations (SoL – Social Services Act and LSS) and contribute to a systematic quality assurance process. A key part of the assignment is to coordinate work according to the new Social Services Act and to collaborate with individual and family services to create coherence and continuity in the support provided to the municipality's residents.
**Your main tasks include:**
- Leading and developing quality management within SoL and LSS
- Conducting Lex Sarah investigations and ensuring learning from incidents
- Developing and updating routines, processes, and self-controls
- Coordinating and planning competencies development initiatives within the operations
- Being responsible for monitoring, evaluating, and reporting to the National Board of Health and Welfare and other authorities
- Participating in and driving development projects, including time-limited tasks linked to state grants or national initiatives
- Collaborating broadly within the municipality, particularly with individual and family services to enhance coordination and common working methods
**QUALIFICATIONS**
**Your profile**
We are looking for someone who has:
- A degree in Social Work or another relevant higher education
- Good knowledge of the Social Services Act and the Act on Support and Services for Certain Disabled Persons
- Experience in development and quality work within healthcare and social services
- Education or several years of experience in project management and coordination
- Desirable investigative competence according to Lex Sarah
- Strong communication skills, collaboration ability, and the capability to build relationships
The role requires you to be both analytical and proactive. One day you may be dealing with the details of an investigative case, and the next day you will be contributing strategically to development issues.
**We offer**
With us, you will have the opportunity to work strategically and long-term on issues that make a difference for many. You will be part of an engaged administration with a strong focus on quality, development, and collaboration.
**OTHER**
In preparation for the recruitment process, Sjöbo Municipality has carefully considered recruitment channels and marketing. Therefore, we kindly ask to refrain from contacting media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar entities.
We value the qualities that diversity and an even gender distribution bring to our work and therefore welcome applicants with different backgrounds and life experiences for the position.
Sjöbo is an expanding municipality located in southern Skåne. Here, 19,500 residents enjoy proximity to diverse nature and many different housing options.