Unit Manager for Home Care

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Description Within the home care service's area of operations, significant and comprehensive development work has taken place over recent years to create a more modern and attractive home care service, resulting in positive developments in both finances and operations. We now want to expand our happy team with a new colleague! The home care service currently consists of 14 home care units, a night unit, alarm and service, a service unit, shared care, a welfare technology unit and inspiration center, as well as an administrative staff. As a unit manager, you are part of the operations management team. Job Responsibilities As a unit manager in home care, you are responsible for ensuring that the services provided are of good quality, maintaining a balanced budget, and providing a good work environment. You have operational responsibility for activities, finances, personnel, and work environment. Your task is to drive, develop, and follow up on operations based on established goals and in accordance with applicable legislation as well as the municipality's goals, policies, and governance documents. You lead and allocate work for your team members and ensure adequate staffing. You are responsible for strengthening and motivating your employees and identifying needs for skills development, changed working methods, and procedures. Through communicative and trust-based leadership, you create conditions for employees to be engaged, take responsibility, and experience job satisfaction. Together with your team, you shall implement approved services and work to ensure that our care recipients receive the highest quality care. Qualifications We are looking for someone with academic education in the social field or other equivalent education/experience that we deem relevant to the position. You have experience working as a manager, and if you have worked in similar operations, this is a merit. We value the qualities that an even age and gender distribution as well as ethnic and cultural diversity bring to the operations. Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability and your leadership qualities, which means that you exercise your leadership in line with the administration's and operations' core values. You practice communicative leadership and have the ability to inspire, motivate, and build trustful relationships with those you meet in your work. Furthermore, you are a driven and creative person who works with perseverance to achieve goals and results. Work in home care is varied and requires a good ability to prioritize and structure. Since our workplaces are distributed throughout the municipality, you need to have a valid driver's license for this position. We Offer Read more about our benefits and what it's like to work in Karlstad Municipality at karlstad.se/jobbahososs Information about salary levels can be found here (select "See salary statistics"). This recruitment concerns AID code [103511]. Warm welcome to submit your application! When you apply for a job with us, you will be asked to provide your CV and answer several questions where we ask you to describe your competence in the requested area. This means you should not attach a personal letter as part of your application. About Karlstad Municipality The Care and Social Services Administration is an administration focused on development and innovation, which among other things is evident from the fact that we have been a model municipality for welfare technology in Sweden for several years. The administration employs around 2,000 employees within care facilities, safety housing, home care, support services, health and medical care, and at our assistance office. These are important jobs where we make a real difference. Our goal is to always provide professional person-centered care and services. Do you want to be part of creating the Karlstad of the future? With us in the Karlstad Municipality organization, you can make a real difference. Here, every employee is an important part of the whole and together we help each other realize our vision of "A better life in the City of the Sun." Come and grow with us! Other Information To ensure quality in the recruitment process and simplify communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application via our recruitment system and not via email or paper format. We decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this notice. If you have protected personal information, you should not register your application documents in our recruitment system and should not send them via email either. Instead, contact the municipality's switchboard at 054-540 00 00 for further assistance.Description Within the home care service's area of operations, significant and comprehensive development work has taken place over recent years to create a more modern and attractive home care service, resulting in positive developments in both finances and operations. We now want to expand our happy team with a new colleague! The home care service currently consists of 14 home care units, a night unit, alarm and service, a service unit, shared care, a welfare technology unit and inspiration center, as well as an administrative staff. As a unit manager, you are part of the operations…

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Karlstad

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Tingvallagatan 1c

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Published

17. 7. 2026

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31. 7. 2026

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