Working in health and social care

Working in health and social care

To work in the municipality of Boden is to be close to the changing everyday life of the people of Boden. This means opportunities and challenges where the way forward can be the courage to dare to try. We have a strong dare to try culture where the support from competent colleagues and managers are close.

The Department of Social Welfare

The task of the Department of Social Welfare is to provide support and care to people who, due to age, disability or other reasons, need help and support.

Home care services

To remain at home, individuals may need support and assistance. This may include help with services such as shopping, cleaning and laundry. Other examples include support and assistance with personal hygiene, medication, escorting and supervision.

Social housing

Assisted sheltered housing is intended for older people, aged 65 or over, who mainly need support and assistance in housing and other easily accessible services. There is also a need for security and companionship and a need for care that is less than full-time care.

Short-term accommodation

Garni’s short-term accommodation is for individuals who need to live temporarily outside their home environment. The aim of short-term accommodation is to complement the home and provide safe care at all stages of life. A short-term place can be granted as alternating care to varying degrees or as a short-term place, e.g. after discharge from hospital where extensive home care services cannot be provided.

Retirement homes

When individuals are no longer able to live at home, they may receive a decision from the social services to move to a nursing home. The nursing home is staffed 24 hours a day and provides individual support and help with those activities that the individual cannot manage on their own.

Accommodation and support

Here, your patients may include both older and younger people with disabilities. Depending on where you work, your workplace may be in the user’s own home, a service home, a short-term/leisure centre or a group home. Examples of duties include supporting the user in their daily life, leisure time and care tasks.

Personal assistance

Personal assistance is a designed support provided in daily life by a limited number of people. As far as possible, the user should have an influence and co-determination over the services provided.

15 000 bonus

If you choose to work as a vacation substitute at the social administration in Boden this summer, you will receive a bonus of SEK 15,000. We also arrange for accommodation to be rented and transportation to the workplace if the bus does not stop directly outside. We want to make it easy for you to come to Boden and have a great summer under the midnight sun. You will also have access to a bicycle so that you can explore the municipality after working hours. What if you want to stay? Then we will help you solve that too.

Education is an advantage but not essential, so please send your application.

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A summer in Boden under the midnight sun offers everything from festivals to nature experiences. Find out what’s happening right now in our events calendar or click around on flyttatillboden.se.

Working in the Social Administration

Operations are largely governed by various laws such as the Social Services Act and the Act on Support and Services for Certain Disabled Persons (LSS). This means that all interventions provided to individuals have a decision on the form of assistance to be provided. When an application for assistance is being considered, an individual assessment must always be made. If the individual is not satisfied with the decision, it is usually possible to appeal to the courts. Assistance can take many different forms, such as a place in a retirement home or group home, help from home care services, support and help for parents, relief for relatives, financial assistance (income support), and personal assistance.

The Social Services Department cooperates with a variety of actors such as the police, Region Norrbotten, various non-profit organisations and other organisations. Within the municipality, the department cooperates primarily with the education administration, and then it is about children and young people.

Open job positions

This is what we offer

As an employee of the municipality of Boden, you will be close to the changing everyday life of the inhabitants of Boden. We offer a wide range of jobs in challenging and exciting professional fields with varied tasks that are socially important, interesting and challenging. We also offer a strong “dare to try” culture where you get great support from colleagues and managers. In addition to important and exciting tasks, we also offer certain benefits.

Some businesses offer the possibility of flexible working hours, also known as flexitime. This means that, within certain limits, you can be flexible in how you arrange your working hours at the beginning and end of the day.

Many businesses also have summer working hours, which means you will have shorter working days from May to August, and slightly longer days from September to April.

Flexible working hours and summer working hours facilitate the reconciliation of work, leisure and family life.

Until the year you turn 39, you qualify for 25 days of paid leave. From the year you turn 40, you qualify for 31 days of paid leave. From the year you turn 50, you qualify for 32 paid holidays per year. If you are paid by the hour, your holiday pay is the number of days based on your age.

If you are entitled to more than 20 paid holiday days in a holiday year, you can save the days exceeding 20 for later years. You can save up to 30 days of holiday. You can also apply for part of a day off – known as holiday hours – if you earn more than 25 days of holiday.

If you have a monthly salary and are employed for an indefinite period or have a fixed-term contract covering the whole of the next holiday year, you can apply to exchange your holiday allowance for more days off. This generates 5 – 6 days per year depending on age.

Staff employed under the BEA or PAN contract are not covered.

You also receive a benefit that allows you to continue to earn full holiday entitlement even if you are on part-time sick leave or parental leave, provided you are still working at least 40%.
If you work in a school and are paid a subsistence or holiday allowance, special rules apply to holidays.

If you have a monthly salary, you keep your salary during your holiday and also receive a holiday allowance for each day off.

As an employee, you have the right to take full or part-time parental leave in accordance with the Parental Leave Act. You are entitled to work part-time until your child is eight years old. In the municipality of Boden, you can take extended partial parental leave of up to 25% until the child is 12 years old. However, parental leave for children between 8 and 12 years of age is not pensionable.

If you are an employee on parental leave, you are entitled to a parental allowance supplement if you have been employed continuously for at least 180 calendar days. The parental benefit supplement is paid for a maximum of 180 days. The supplement is paid until the child is 24 months old at the latest.

If your business allows it,you can give blood during paid working hours.

If you have a close family member who passes away or is seriously ill, you may be entitled to some paid leave under an agreement.

If it is necessary to visit during working hours, you have the right to visit a maternity clinic on 2 occasions during a pregnancy.

In case of acute illness or accident, it is possible to visit a doctor or dentist for the first time.

The municipality of Boden has an occupational health service that works actively to promote health.

Occupational health carries out preventive measures for priority groups.
The occupational health service also supports the municipality’s work environment and rehabilitation work.

Wellness hour-The municipality of Boden wants to promote a sustainable working life. We offer one paid fitness hour per week for your own fitness activities if your work schedule allows.

Health care allowance-As a permanent employee, you can receive a health care allowance of SEK 1500 per year. You apply for the grant via the service web and it can be used according to the Swedish Tax Agency’s rules for wellness grants.

Health portal – all monthly employees have access to the municipality’s health portal where it is free to book various health promotion activities.

Exercise cards – all employees can buy exercise cards at a discounted price.

Work environment week – every autumn, a work environment week is arranged for the municipality’s employees with various lecturers and a lot of physical activities.

Terminal glasses – As an employee of the municipality of Boden, you can get help with glasses for terminal work if needed.

For your first two weeks of illness, your employer will pay you sick pay according to the Sick Pay Act, which is 80% of your salary.

On days 15-90, in addition to sickness benefit from the Social Insurance Agency, you will receive sick pay of 10% of the salary you lose from your employer. If your salary is higher than the Försäkringskassan ceiling for sickness benefit, your employer will also pay an additional supplement to your salary.

The 10% sick pay can be paid up to and including calendar day 90 of the sick leave. From day 91, this can be applied for with AFA insurance.

When you have been employed for 25 years, you will receive a gift worth 15% of the price base amount and a dinner hosted by the municipality of Boden.

If you terminate your employment after 10 years, you will receive a commemorative gift worth 3% of the price base amount, after 20 years the value is 4.5%.

As an employee of the municipality of Boden, you get free coffee and tea.

Most workplaces have a daily newspaper and fruit.

As an employee of the municipality of Boden, you are insured against illness, occupational injury and death via AFA and KPA-Liv.

Every year your employer contributes to your occupational pension – which can be an important part of your future pension. The municipality of Boden pays a pension contribution of 6% of your income to your chosen pension provider.

In addition, the employer contributes 31.5% if your salary exceeds 7.5 price base amounts (AKAP-KR.).

Opportunity for higher pension through salary exchange – As a staff member, you have the opportunity to exchange part of your salary through a gross salary deduction for your occupational pension.

We are the municipality’s largest employer and you have great opportunities to develop when you work with us.

We are committed to your professional development and provide you with good opportunities to strengthen your skills.

As a permanent employee of the Social Services Department, you can apply for paid studies in the following areas:

  • studies to become a social worker.
  • assistant nurses to nurses.
  • nurses for specialist academic training (specialist nurse).
  • permanently employed nurses/care assistants – training to become an assistant nurse.

If you are a member of the Labour Market and Education Administration, you can study with pay in the following areas:

  • Training for childcare workers
  • Training as a resource teacher

The municipalities and regions have a conversion agreement that aims to promote employees’ opportunities for lifelong learning and strengthen their position in the labor market.

You can apply for support from the Transition Fund for career and study advice and for skills development or study.

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