Care Unit Manager

REGION JÖNKÖPINGS LÄN · Full-time

Jönköping, Sweden

Psychiatric Clinic, Jönköping, Forensic Psychiatry Would you like to be part of building a new forensic psychiatric care unit from the start? Here you get a meaningful management position with great opportunities to work with others to shape and develop a safe and sustainable operation. The Role of Care Unit Manager As a Care Unit Manager, you are responsible, together with other managers, for establishing and staffing a new forensic psychiatric care unit. The assignment includes operational management and responsibility for personnel, work environment, patient safety, security, and parts of the budget. You work close to operations with recruitment, onboarding, staffing planning, and development and monitoring of procedures. The role includes handling issues and situations related to, for example, compulsory care according to LPT and LRV, threats and violence, security incidents, staffing, and personnel matters. You collaborate with, among others, other managers, doctors, HR, care colleagues, and the Prison and Probation Service. As one of the clinic's managers, you are also an important part of management and contribute to the development and implementation of new working methods and practices. Your Future Workplace Forensic Psychiatry is part of the Psychiatric Clinic in Jönköping and currently consists of two inpatient units and an outpatient team. We have close collaboration with the Regional Clinic in Vadstena. The unit is staffed by nurses, care assistants, treatment assistants, risk assessors, care administrators, occupational therapists, social workers, psychologists, and doctors. Work is organized based on a primary contact model where all professions collaborate in care around each patient. Due to increased patient intake and the need for expanded capacity, a new forensic psychiatric care unit is now being established and will open. The new unit is planned to comprise approximately 5–10 beds and approximately 24 employees. Your Profile We are looking for you with relevant higher education within, for example, healthcare, social work, behavioral science, leadership, or another area that the employer deems relevant for the assignment. You have experience of leadership with responsibility for personnel and operations. You also have experience with systematic work environment management and understanding of patient safety and security work. It is advantageous to have experience from healthcare, psychiatry, or forensic psychiatry as well as from operations with high demands for safety and structured working methods. Experience with recruitment, staffing, employee onboarding, and work environment and personnel matters is also advantageous. We would like to see that you have experience with change management, operational development, or startup of new operations, as well as work in complex organizations with multiple internal and external collaboration partners. Knowledge of psychiatric and forensic psychiatric care and relevant legislation, especially LPT and LRV, is advantageous. The same applies to knowledge of operational planning, staffing, monitoring, and finances. As a leader, it is important that you are responsive and understand who we exist for and why. You have a holistic perspective and understand the significance and consequences of your role from both a societal and employee perspective and contribute to sustainable development. You demonstrate inspiring and engaging leadership and have trust in your employees. You are quality-conscious and work development and process-oriented. For this assignment, collaboration skills, leadership, judgment, holistic view, and a structured working approach are important competencies. Great weight is placed on personal suitability. Our Offer to You We offer a meaningful, stimulating, and developmental management assignment with great opportunities to influence organization, working methods, procedures, staffing, and culture as the new care unit is built. You become part of an environment characterized by close collaboration between managers and different professions, both internally and externally. Here you get the opportunity to contribute to the continued development of forensic psychiatric care, with patient and staff safety in focus. We also offer good opportunities for skills development and a workplace with a good sense of community, where your experience and personality are important contributions. As an employee with us in Region Jönköpings län, you have access to our employment benefits. Some of them increase your basic security, others add a little extra to everyday life. Read more about our benefits here: Benefits, Region Jönköpings län (http://www.rjl.se/jobb-och-karriar/Jobba-hos-oss/Formaner/) Do You Have Questions About the Position? If you want to know more about the position, you are welcome to contact Deputy Operations Manager Karl-Henrik Forsman, 010-242 33 79, [email protected]. We are happy to receive calls from you who are interested in the job but we decline calls from those selling ads and recruitment services. Our Recruitment Process The final application deadline is September 20. We welcome your application. Read more about Region Jönköpings län's recruitment process on our website: Our Recruitment Process (https://www.rjl.se/jobb-och-karriar/Lediga-jobb/Var-rekryteringsprocess/) Prior to employment, the employer will request that you provide an extract from the police criminal record register and suspected offender register. A record in this register may affect your eligibility for employment.