Unit Manager - Care Services

Torsås Municipality - a municipality with proximity and quality of life in southern Kalmar County. The municipality, with approximately 7,000 residents, can be described as Sweden in miniature. Here you'll find the sea, coast, beaches, flatlands, lakes, and forests. The economy is dominated by manufacturing but also has great potential in tourism and other areas. Here we can offer high quality of life with proximity and great security for residents and visitors. Torsås Municipality has five departments and two wholly-owned companies. In Torsås Municipality, we dare to find new solutions, think big thoughts, and come up with exciting ideas. To succeed, we work closely together. We collaborate toward a common goal: to give everyone who lives here the best conditions for a good life. Our closeness to each other is evident in how we utilize each other's strengths. The fact that departments and operations work closely together also means it's never far between employees and management, which in turn leads to short decision-making paths and close collaboration. Torsås Municipality's values are built on the words Participation, Development, Clarity, and Security. An approach that every employee and elected representative demonstrates in daily work and in meetings with citizens and customers. 1 position(s). JOB RESPONSIBILITIES Within the Social Services Department, we are now seeking a Unit Manager for Care Services. We are looking for someone who appreciates the complex and sometimes unpredictable assignment of being a unit manager and who can balance responsibility for operations, personnel, work environment, and finances. In your role as unit manager, you will be responsible for operations and quality development within care services based on current legislation, established goals, and guidelines. You will work with the small municipality's proximity, with the benefit of having short contact paths to both employees and colleagues as well as to management and politics. Together with other unit managers, you drive the work of developing our care services to provide even better support and service to our citizens, which is our most important mission. In your role as unit manager, operations and quality development within care services is included. You lead the operations based on national legislation and recommendations as well as locally established procedures, goals, and guidelines. Your tasks are to lead, develop, and follow up on operations. You take responsibility for your assigned operational area, which includes everything from individual participation and employees' opportunity to influence, to responsibility for allocated budget and creating a good work environment. In your daily work, you actively participate in the care services management group. You also collaborate with other unit managers within the Social Services Department as we have a shared mission to develop our responsibility area in Torsås Municipality. You report directly to the Operations Manager for Care Services. In Torsås Municipality, we apply present and developmental leadership where you as a unit manager can guide and support your employees in daily work while having the ability to maintain a strategic focus and see operations from a holistic perspective. In Torsås, we have good and constructive collegial exchange through everyday support and a permissive atmosphere. Together with your Operations Manager and your colleagues, you will develop our operations and have the opportunity to be a sustainable, communicative, and courageous leader. QUALIFICATIONS You have a degree in behavioral science, nursing, or other relevant higher education that the employer deems equivalent. It is meritorious if you have previous experience working as a manager in health and care operations. We expect you to be a skilled and persistent leader who builds good relationships, creates trust, and can motivate your employees. You drive your projects forward, communicate goals, are results-oriented, and have a strong desire to develop operations. You are committed to ensuring that the individual and their loved ones are involved in the service and care that the operation provides. As a leader, you are clear and concrete in your dialogue with employees and citizens. Creating participation and consensus is an approach you appreciate. As a person, you are self-directed and quality-conscious, you are open to new work methods, and you have a flexible approach. You also need to be a team player who sees the benefits of becoming stronger together and driving change collaboratively with colleagues. We highly value good collaboration skills and self-initiative within care services. As a unit manager with us, you are skilled at leading an operation that is under development and change. You are someone who dares to challenge traditional patterns and cultures so that together we can move forward and become better! We can offer you: • Training in developmental leadership • Collegial supervision • Strong support from your manager, colleagues, and other support functions • Great opportunity to influence and work in a development-oriented manner • Personal suitability is heavily weighted for this position. We conduct continuous selection, which means we may fill the position before the final application deadline. The position includes on-call management duty that you share with your colleagues. Driver's license is a requirement. Salary form: Monthly salary. Employment form: Permanent employment. Duration: Permanent, start date: By agreement. Working hours: Evening and night shifts may occur. We strive for equal gender distribution and view diversity as a strength, and therefore welcome applicants with different backgrounds. In preparation for the recruitment process, we have taken a position on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore strongly decline contact from media sales representatives, job boards, and similar. We use e-recruitment to streamline and quality-assure the recruitment process. All your information is saved on your CV account and you can easily log in and update your information whenever you wish. Please fill in your information as carefully as possible to provide an accurate picture of yourself. Your information is processed and stored in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Warmly welcome to submit your application!

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