Unit Manager for Academic Specialist Center, Center for Obesity

The Academic Specialist Center is Region Stockholm's initiative to bring together highly specialized care for chronic diseases outside acute hospitals. Here, advanced clinical operations and research are conducted in close collaboration with the Karolinska Institute. Our environment is characterized by development, innovation, and a strong focus on evidence-based care - with excellent opportunities to shape future working methods within healthcare. The Center for Obesity, which is part of the Academic Specialist Center, is a multidisciplinary and well-established operation that serves patients with severe obesity. We are a regional competence center with a mandate to provide high-quality care, drive development, and disseminate knowledge about obesity to other healthcare providers. As unit manager, you have overall responsibility for: - operations, employees, working environment, and finances within the unit - leading, planning, and monitoring operations based on mandate, goals, and quality requirements - working together with employees to develop working methods that strengthen patient safety and quality - promoting a good and health-promoting work environment and active employee engagement - ensuring collaboration with internal and external partners You are part of the management group for the operations together with unit managers for other units within the Academic Specialist Center and report directly to the operations manager. Work Tasks: As unit manager, you provide close and engaged leadership with frequent contact with employees in daily work. Obesity care is constantly evolving, and you play a central role in working with the employee group to develop smart, efficient, and sustainable working methods and adapt operations based on current conditions and needs. We work systematically with quality, patient safety, working environment, and efficient care flows. Finding new working methods and continuously improving care is a natural part of our mission and daily work. Qualifications: We seek someone who is licensed within a health and medical profession. Experience working with obesity is required. It is advantageous if you have experience in obesity care at the specialist level and in a leadership role. Our unit is a competence center for obesity treatment in Region Stockholm. We continuously develop new working methods that we share with other operations. It is advantageous if you have experience in driving improvement work and in training other healthcare providers in the field of obesity. Personal Qualities: As a person, you are clear, stable, and present in your leadership. You foster participation, utilize employees' expertise, and drive development in line with operational goals. You have the ability to see solutions where others see obstacles and are attentive with strong ability to build trust and establish relationships both internally and externally. Great weight is placed on personal suitability. Employment Terms: You are offered a permanent employment in your base profession. The assignment as unit manager is a limited-term management delegation. A probationary period may be applied. Other Information: We review applications on an ongoing basis and interviews may be held before the final application deadline. Warmly welcome to submit your application! The position is filled on the condition that it does not need to be used for internal reallocation, in accordance with applicable regulations. For patient-facing work within Stockholm County Healthcare: - a background check will be applied prior to an employment decision in accordance with SLSO's general guidelines for background checks at hiring. - employees who will have patient contact must undergo a new employee health examination, in accordance with current directives, which takes place through occupational health services before employment. - in addition to Swedish professional licensure, good knowledge of the Swedish language is required, equivalent to level C1 according to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). The same requirement is advisory for non-licensed personnel with patient contact. Stockholm County Healthcare (SLSO) is one of Sweden's largest healthcare providers with 11,600 employees. We provide health and medical care under Region Stockholm's management within psychiatry, primary care, geriatrics, ASIH, urgent care centers, somatic specialist care, habilitation and health, and aids. In collaboration with the Karolinska Institute, we conduct research, education, and development. Read more about SLSO here. Applying for a Job at Region Stockholm We strive for equality and fairness in our workplace and welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds and circumstances. We only accept applications through this system. Apply by clicking the "Apply" button. Applications by mail or email are not considered. We decline direct contact from staffing and recruitment companies as well as sellers of additional job ads. Our recruitment system cannot handle anonymous applications or applicants with protected personal information. If you have protected personal information, we ask you to contact the contact person listed in the ad. Your application will then be handled outside the recruitment system. You should also be careful about what information you provide in your application and only include information relevant to the current position. 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