Unit Manager

VÄSTRA GÖTALANDSREGIONEN · Full-time

Lilla Kapplandsgatan 10, HÖGSBO, Sweden

Western Sweden Region Hospitals is an administration within the Västra Götalandsregionen and consists of four hospitals – Alingsås lasarett, Angereds närsjukhus, Högsbo närsjukhus, and Kungälvs sjukhus. Approximately 3000 employees work with us every day to provide good and safe specialist healthcare of the highest quality. Högsbo närsjukhus offers an exciting workplace where you have the opportunity to work using new methods and where you will be an important part of innovative forms of care close to patients. Högsbo närsjukhus is a so-called smart hospital where we combine innovative working methods with future IT support to enable high-quality care with the patient in focus. The hospital has a day surgery center, specialist centers with radiology and specimen collection for adults and children. Högsbo närsjukhus is an important part in developing close patient care in the Gothenburg area. Description The Heart and Diabetes Clinic at Högsbo närsjukhus is a clinic that works with the medical care areas of diabetes and cardiology. The operations are characterized by close collaboration within teams, with the patient in focus. As manager of the clinic, you work together with the staff at the clinic for a good work environment and high quality care. Job Responsibilities As unit manager, you report directly to the operations manager for the Medical operations area and are part of the management group for the area. You sit together with your unit manager colleagues at the other hospitals in the management group for medicine and have a great opportunity as a manager to influence operations. You are responsible for leading, planning, and developing operations in line with the hospital's goals. You have personnel and work environment responsibility for your employees and are responsible for the unit's finances. The work includes participating in the hospital's process and development work. You work in close collaboration with the unit's employees and together you drive the unit's improvement efforts. As support for your management role, there are staff functions for finance, HR, operations development, and IS/IT. The role will focus on managing operations with the unique conditions that exist at Högsbo närsjukhus – the region's newest hospital. Qualifications You have a nursing education or other appropriate higher education and preferably have previous experience in a management position and hospital care. We will place great value on your personal qualities and previous achievements as a leader. We believe that you who apply: have a well-developed ability to communicate, both within your own clinic and outward in operations have an accessible approach and clear leadership are driven by the challenge of leading and inspiring teams and individuals to develop based on our shared values invite employees and those we serve to participate in improvement work and support their development and desire to contribute their expertise are a manager who with your competence drives the unit based on VG-region's management criteria (values-based, goal and results-oriented, communicative, and development-oriented management) into future healthcare see an exciting challenge in being part of and developing the unit. We look forward to receiving your application! About Västra Götalandsregionen With us, you become part of a larger whole. We are 56,000 employees in over 200 professions who make a difference in people's lives throughout Västra Götaland every day. You contribute to safe and equal healthcare as well as to a sustainable society where environment, culture, and good communications create quality of life. We are in the midst of digital development where you get to help shape future working methods to improve and simplify everyday life for residents and operations. As a permanent employee, you will be subject to civil emergency preparedness as part of our shared responsibility for ensuring that socially critical functions work even in crisis. Want to know more about us? On our website you can read more about our benefits and meet employees who make a difference every day and develop in their professions. https://www.vgregion.se/jobba-i-vgr/sa-ar-det-att-jobba-hos-oss/ Application Västra Götalandsregionen prefers that you register your application via the recruitment system. If you as an applicant have questions about the advertised position or for special and particular reasons cannot register your information in a public system - contact the contact person for the respective notice. To staffing, placement, and recruitment companies and to you who are sellers: We politely but firmly ask that you refrain from direct contact from staffing, placement, and recruitment companies and other external actors and sellers of additional job postings. Västra Götalandsregionen has contracted agreements.