Unit Manager for Special Housing – Leadership That Makes a Difference

Sala kommun · Full-time

Sala, Sweden

Do you want to be part of shaping elderly care where the person is always at the center? Do you want to lead with both heart, courage, and clear direction? And do you want an assignment where your leadership matters – every day? We are now looking for a unit manager at one of Sala Municipality's special housing facilities. Here you will have the opportunity to make a difference for people during an important part of their lives, while also being part of developing the future of elderly care. As a unit manager, you will become part of an engaged leadership team that together creates safety, quality, job satisfaction, and development. With us, the distance between idea and decision is short, and we believe that the best results are created when people are trusted, given responsibility, and given the opportunity to grow. Here you don't just lead an operation – you lead people and create the conditions for a good life. With us, it all starts with the person For us, person-centered care is more than a concept. It is our way of meeting people. We see the person behind the need and make use of each individual's resources, wishes, experiences, and life story. Together with the individual and their loved ones, we create care that is based on participation, respect, and safety. We believe that life should continue to be rich, meaningful, and full of content even when someone moves to special housing. That is why we work every day to create a daily life where our residents feel seen, listened to, and involved. That is what makes our mission so important – and so meaningful. A home that is people's home Sala Municipality has six special housing facilities where different professionals work together to create safe and secure care and support. Here nursing assistants, care workers, nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists, and other experts meet around the same goal: that our residents can live a good life based on their own conditions. As a unit manager, you have a central role in creating the right conditions for both employees and residents. You lead with presence and trust and create a culture where people dare to take responsibility, come up with ideas, and develop. Welcome to Björkgården Björkgården is one of Sala Municipality's six special housing facilities and is located in a beautiful rural setting in Västerfärnebo. Here live 49 elderly people who together with our employees share their daily life in a comfortable and safe environment. Some of the apartments are specially adapted for people with cognitive decline, and the facility also has an integrated day activity program. Here there is, in other words, an operation with both breadth and opportunities – and a daily life where your leadership can make a concrete difference. Your assignment – to lead people, develop operations, and create the future As a unit manager, you have overall responsibility for operations, employees, work environment, quality, and finances. You will, among other things: lead, coach, and develop employees in daily operations and in their professional development build a culture characterized by trust, participation, responsibility, and good treatment ensure safe, secure, and person-centered care and support in accordance with laws and guidelines drive quality and improvement work that develops the operation together with your management colleagues develop and lead our special housing facilities create good collaboration with nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists, loved ones, and other partners actively contribute to the operations area's management group and help shape our continued development. With us, you are never alone. We believe in the power of sharing experiences, supporting each other, and finding solutions together. You will become part of a leadership team where collaboration and shared responsibility are important parts of success. Who are you? We are looking for you who want and dare to lead. You are a confident leader who can combine clarity with responsiveness and structure with a genuine interest in people. You see opportunities, create engagement, and get others to want to join the journey. We would like to see that you: have relevant higher education or other education that the employer deems equivalent have experience in leadership, as a manager or in another leading role have knowledge of elderly care and a genuine interest in people's living conditions are confident, clear, and responsive in your leadership create engagement, participation, and job satisfaction work in a structured way with quality, work environment, and finances see collaboration and unpretentious cooperation as a natural part of the assignment have good computer skills and feel confident with business systems and Office. We place great importance on your personal qualities. For us, trust is not the absence of leadership – it is the foundation of strong leadership. When employees are trusted to use their competence, take responsibility, and develop, we create together an operation where both people and quality grow. Do you want to be part of making a difference? If you want a leadership assignment where you can combine people, development, and societal benefit, then this could be the role for you. Welcome to Sala Municipality – and to an assignment where your leadership can make a real difference. Terms of Employment Indefinite duration, full-time Start date by agreement Individual salary setting Trial employment may be applied Register extract must be presented before employment. Application & Information Welcome to submit your application no later than 2026-10-12 via http://www.sala.se/ledigajobb. We do not accept applications via email. If you want to know more about the position, you are welcome to contact Operations Manager Malin Johansson: mailto:[email protected] Union representatives: Vision, Thomas Roberg, mailto:[email protected] Kommunal, switchboard: 010-442 81 83 About the Employer In Sala Municipality, managers and employees jointly take responsibility for results, work environment, and development. The work is based on the right competence, trust, and participation. With trust-based leadership and active employee engagement, we create a simple, efficient, and citizen-friendly way of working that delivers high quality and good results. Read more about Sala at http://www.sala.se/. Sala Municipality welcomes you who have the competence to contribute to our operations regardless of gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion or other belief, disability, and age. We kindly but firmly decline offers of advertising and recruitment assistance.