Home Care Services Manager

Grums kommun · Full-time

Sveagatan 77, Grums, Sweden

Grums Municipality is part of the Karlstad region and is located on the shores of Lake Vänern, a 20-minute drive from Karlstad. Working with us gives you all the benefits of being part of a small municipality. Here, we have jobs that matter. Together we make a difference every day, each in our own way but always with the municipality's residents in focus. By following our core values, we create a welcoming municipality where commitment, participation, professionalism, and work satisfaction prevail. Are you a confident, courageous, and present leader who wants to help develop the future of home care services? We are now seeking a unit manager for home care services in Grums Municipality. Home care services are divided into five geographic areas where approximately 60 employees work to provide our residents with safe and person-centered care. For us, the customers' needs, participation, and self-determination are in focus. As a unit manager, you will be responsible for two of the home care service's five areas while your management colleague is responsible for the other three. You will work closely together and share joint responsibility for developing the operations, creating favorable conditions for employees, and ensuring high-quality care. You will become part of an organization where collaboration and cooperation are in focus, which will give you good conditions to succeed in the role. With us, you make a difference! 1 position(s). JOB RESPONSIBILITIES As a unit manager, you have overall responsibility for operations, quality, finances, personnel, and work environment within your areas of responsibility. You lead, plan, and develop operations based on legislation, objectives, governing documents, and operational needs. You are responsible for budgeting and resource planning with the goal of ensuring operations with good quality and balanced finances. Personnel responsibility includes recruitment, employee meetings, rehabilitation, scheduling, and systematic work environment management. Through clear, present, and trust-based leadership, you create conditions for your employees to develop, take responsibility, and contribute to operational goals. You monitor operational results and drive development and improvement work to meet future needs in healthcare and social services. Digitalization and welfare technology are important parts of this work. As part of your assignment, you participate in the management group for healthcare and social services, where you and other managers drive and develop operations from a holistic perspective. In your role, you collaborate with customers, family members, employees, management colleagues, and internal and external stakeholders to create the best conditions for operations. QUALIFICATIONS We are looking for someone who has: • An academic degree, preferably with a focus on social care, social work education, nursing education, or other education that the employer deems relevant • Several years of experience with leadership including personnel, work environment, and operational responsibility as well as budgeting • Experience from home care services or other operations within healthcare and social services • Good knowledge of current legislation and the conditions that govern operations • Driver's license (Category B) • Good digital competence It is meriting if you have: • Experience leading change and development initiatives • Experience with digitalization and welfare technology work • Experience with scheduling • Previous management experience in public sector operations Personal qualities: To succeed in this role, you are communicative and practice close leadership. You create engagement, participation, and favorable conditions for your employees. You have a trust-based approach, build good relationships, and enjoy driving development. As a person, you are innovative, courageous, and see possibilities in change. You dare to try new ways of working and turn ideas into concrete improvements for operations. You work toward established goals, have a holistic perspective, and combine operational needs with a focus on quality, finances, and a good work environment. Of course, you share our core values of being professional, welcoming, engaged, and participatory! Salary form: Monthly salary. Employment form: Permanent employment. Duration: Indefinite, start date: By agreement. Work hours: Daytime. To ensure quality in the recruitment process and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask that you submit your application digitally and not by post or email. At Grums Municipality, we want diversity in the workplace and to take advantage of the qualities that an even gender and age distribution as well as ethnic and cultural diversity bring to our operations. We warmly welcome your application! By submitting your application, you consent to your personal data being used in accordance with current data protection legislation so that Grums Municipality can provide the support and services the municipality is responsible for. Read more at grums.se/personuppgifter. Offers of recruitment and advertising assistance are not welcome.