Unit Manager Social Emergency Services Jönköping, Habo, Mullsjö

Jönköpings kommun · Full-time

Jönköpings kommun, Jönköping, Sweden

Jönköping Municipality is a large employer with hundreds of different professional roles. We are growing as the municipality develops with more residents, more housing, and greater offerings. We are always looking for new expertise - employees with different backgrounds and experiences, united by the common drive to create a better municipality to visit, live, work, and reside in. Do you want to lead the social services administration's operations that provide emergency support to citizens in the evenings and on weekends? Do you have experience with the social services' exercise of authority and do you thrive in a role where leadership, development, and collaboration are central? Then you could be our new Unit Manager for the Social Emergency Services. Your New Job Unit Managers in the social services administration are expected to practice health-promoting leadership based on trust, knowledge, and learning and should be bearers of the values outlined in the preamble of the Social Services Act. As Unit Manager for the Social Emergency Services, you have an important and varied assignment. You lead an operation that is responsible for emergency measures and exercise of authority when the social services' regular operations are closed. This could include, for example, children in distress, domestic violence, harmful use of substances, or homelessness. You are responsible for personnel, work environment, and finances. You ensure lawful case handling in accordance with legislation and guidelines and create conditions for employees to carry out sustainable social work. The Social Emergency Services operate when regular social services authorities are not on duty and are then responsible for emergency measures for individuals where social problems create a need for exercise of authority. As Unit Manager, your main working time is scheduled during daytime, but since the unit's employees work evenings and weekends, you are also expected to be able to work outside regular office hours. You are part of a management on-call group for Individual and Family Care operations that work outside regular hours. On-call duty typically occurs approximately every sixth week. In your new position as Unit Manager, a major part of your assignment will include development and collaboration matters. Close collaboration with all operations that the Social Emergency Services works for, both internally in Jönköping, Habo, and Mullsjö municipalities, as well as externally, will need to be prioritized. Your Competence We are looking for someone with an approved and completed bachelor's degree of at least 180 credit hours with relevance to the position. To succeed in this role, we would like you to have several years of management experience within social services and experience with personnel, operations, and budget responsibility. You have good knowledge of the social services' mission and are well-versed in exercise of authority and applicable legislation. It is a merit if you have experience with development and change management. As a leader, you are confident, clear, and communicative. You create structure and predictability while having the ability to act flexibly when operations require it. You make use of your employees' competence, create participation, and build trusting relationships. You have the ability to create good relationships both internally and externally and are driven by the desire to develop operations together with others. You express yourself well in Swedish, both orally and in writing, and have good knowledge of digital work tools. A class B driver's license is a requirement. In the recruitment process, we place great emphasis on personal suitability. What We Offer You We offer you an exciting and meaningful management assignment where you get the opportunity to lead and develop the Social Emergency Services together with engaged and competent employees. You will become part of a management group within Individual and Family Care where collaboration, support, and shared responsibility are in focus. In your assignment, you also have access to the administration's support functions such as staffing controllers, HR consultants, and finance specialists. You are also offered individual salary determination, the possibility of supervision, and the municipality's other benefits which you can read more about here. Welcome to Us The Social Emergency Services are responsible for emergency measures for individuals present in the municipality where social problems create an acute need for exercise of authority in the evenings, nights, and weekends when regular authorities are closed. The Social Emergency Services work group consists of eight social workers, of which one is a senior social worker. The operations are based at the Fire and Rescue Service premises on Glansgatan in Jönköping. The Social Emergency Services cover Jönköping, Habo, and Mullsjö municipalities. The Social Emergency Services are organizationally placed within the Individual and Family Care area for adults. The Unit Manager's direct supervisor is the Area Manager. Your workplace will be at Glansgatan where the Social Emergency Services operates and at Sofiahuset in Jönköping. Good to Know This recruitment concerns a permanent position, full-time, with start date by agreement. In your application, we want you to include a personal letter, CV, attached diploma, and previous employment certificates. All of your employment must be verifiable and it must be clear the extent to which you have worked, what employment arrangement was applicable, and what position you held. Applications lacking this information will not be prioritized. Assessment tools will be used. Work outside regular office hours occurs. Selection takes place on an ongoing basis; interviews will be held Thursday afternoon September 24 and Friday afternoon September 25. If you apply for the position and are called for an interview, you must be available on these days. This position is job evaluated and the Unit Manager is found in base group J. For more information about the position's salary range, see: Salary and Salary Statistics. Before any employment, you must provide an approved extract from the police's criminal records for work in a leading position. We look forward to receiving your application! Want to Know More? Recruiting Manager: Marie Andersson, tel: 036-10 80 29. Union Representatives: Fackliga Soc. Together we make Jönköping Municipality better – for everyone. Come work with us. Welcome to apply for the position! Jönköping Municipality strives to offer an attractive workplace that is free from discrimination and provides equal opportunities for all. In connection with our recruitment work, we have made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore kindly but firmly decline all inquiries about advertising and recruitment assistance.