Unit Manager in LSS

Helsingborgs kommun · Full-time

Stortorget 17, Helsingborg, Sweden

Would you like to work with leadership in a organization that makes a difference for people? We work with the individual at the center of our group homes and BODA units (housing and daily activities) and we strive for everyone to develop based on their conditions and have a meaningful life and existence. About the Workplace The Disability Support Department's mission is to work so that the city's residents with disabilities can live a dignified life and feel well-being. The individual's integrity, self-determination, participation and individual needs shall be in focus. The department was recently reorganized to create conditions for active and close leadership for the department's managers. Innovation work is a natural part of the department's operations and the activities work systematically and long-term to develop quality. Your workplace will be at Landskronavägen 1 and several of your colleagues are also located there, which increases the opportunity for collegial exchange. What We Offer We offer you a varied, responsible and stimulating job with opportunities for personal development. The workplace is smoke-free and health-conscious. As an employee, you receive a wellness allowance of 3000 kronor per year. Job Responsibilities The role as unit manager with us means that you are responsible for activities within the framework of the group home service. As a manager of group housing, it is important to lead and drive development forward where the resident's needs are in focus. The role as unit manager with us means that you are responsible for activities within the framework of special housing/group home. The role requires great confidence in the task and for each other in the management group. We see great value in our colleagues and the need for managers who will work together to have the will to help each other. Therefore, we see it as a given that you are good at working together with your colleagues and seeing the bigger picture. Qualifications You should have an appropriate university degree/bachelor's degree and you should also have experience in similar activities within LSS. We also want you to have work experience from a managerial position. Furthermore, we want you to have professional knowledge within the field, system understanding, analytical ability and a holistic perspective. Both to continuously evaluate your own activities and to be able to analyze and assess which factors, external and internal, that affect the activities and must be handled in different ways based on the whole. We expect you to have an economic mindset for a balanced budget, that you care about colleagues and employees and a good work environment. Your leadership style is characterized by trust-based leadership, you have good communication skills, high awareness of the importance of participation, and you lead toward results based on the assignment. Your Personal Qualities Are Important to Us You are good at creating and maintaining good relationships within and outside the administration, and you have the courage, creativity and determination to implement what is required to lead the activities in the right direction. You have the ability to implement necessary improvement measures based on customer and employee perspectives. You need to be unpretentious in the role. Working for Helsingborg City Would you like to be part of creating a better city together with the residents of Helsingborg? Then you should work for Helsingborg City. Here you can use your creativity and drive to make life easier and safer for our residents, visitors and business community. Together with curious and helpful colleagues, you make a difference in people's lives, both today and in the future. A good job today, a better city tomorrow. Health and Care Administration At the Health and Care Administration, we work with people. Real people. People who, just like you, live life. We are approximately 4500 employees - from healthcare assistants, support assistants, nurses, physiotherapists and occupational therapists to economists, investigators and benefits administrators who in various ways contribute to ensuring that the city's elderly and people with disabilities can live a rich and independent life. Here you can read more about what it is like to work in the city: https://vardochomsorg.helsingborg.se/jobba-hos-oss/ Other Information To be respectful of each other's time and expectations, we want you to state your salary expectations and start date in your application. Application Deadline: 2026 09 22 Helsingborg City works against discrimination and to promote all people's equal rights and opportunities. Applicants regardless of background are welcome to apply to Helsingborg City. To quality assure the recruitment process at Helsingborg City, we use the recruitment tool ReachMee. Therefore, we ask you to submit your application via ReachMee by clicking on the application link in the announcement. Before employment at the Health and Care Administration, we require you to present a valid excerpt in an unopened envelope from the police criminal record. You can order a criminal record now to speed up the recruitment process: https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/ Before employment, we will verify citizenship. You will need to present a passport, national ID card or personal certificate. If you are not a citizen of Sweden, EU, EEA or Switzerland, you must also prove valid work authorization or that you are exempt from the requirement to have work authorization according to the Aliens Ordinance 6 chap. §13a. If you are a job seeker with protected personal data, you should contact the recruiting manager mentioned in the announcement who will guide you further for a secure application process. You should not apply digitally via the application link. Trade Union Representatives https://intranat.helsingborg.se/hr/samverkan-och-delaktighet/fackliga-foretradare/ As we have already decided on the recruitment channels we wish to use for this recruitment, we kindly but firmly decline to be contacted for further offers of competency mediation, advertising and recruitment assistance.