Are You Our New Unit Manager for the Youth Unit?

Stockholms kommun · plný úvazek

Karlavägen 104, Stockholm, Švédsko

Stockholm – our capital city with millions of dreams, expectations, and ambitions. We work for everyone who lives here today and in the future. Now we're looking for you who wants to think big, new, and different with us – for the people of Stockholm. The Central Inner City district comprises the central parts of Stockholm, Norrmalm and Östermalm. Here we work to provide our 155,000 residents with the best services in, among other things, preschool, social services, elderly care, and urban development. We welcome you who wants to make a difference for the residents of Central Inner City. Welcome to Us We are now looking for an engaged leader who wants to be part of creating the social services of the future within the children and family sector together with us in Central Inner City! As a development-oriented team player, you will have good conditions to drive quality and development work together with our engaged and skilled employees and colleagues. The children and family sector in Central Inner City consists of five units: reception for children and youth, three investigation units, and foster care and family law. Our sector is led by a sector manager and the five unit managers. Within the sector, three mentors and a group leader for the reception unit also work. Greeting from Kristina Löfström, Sector Manager: Hi! My name is Kristina Löfström and I hope to be your new manager. I am a social worker in body and soul and as a manager, I am committed to ensuring that our work makes a difference for the children and families we serve, and that we together drive improvement work based on the target group's needs and a systemic approach. For me, it's important to have managers and employees who are engaged, curious, and enjoy their work. Those who take personal responsibility, support each other, and build on collaboration internally and externally. We Offer We offer you a developmental, enjoyable, and operations-focused assignment as a unit manager at a dynamic workplace where you will have the opportunity for close leadership. Here we believe that the whole becomes better when we lead together. We support each other, share experiences, and actively work for a good and inspiring work environment. We apply winter and summer working hours as well as flexible hours. You receive a wellness allowance of 3,000 kronor per year and have the opportunity to apply for holiday exchange. Read more about our benefits at Stockholm City here Read more about what it's like to be a manager in Stockholm City – Manager in the City Your Role As a unit manager, you have personnel, budget, and operational responsibility for the youth unit. The unit currently has nine social workers and one school coordinator for placed children. To support you in your work, you have the sector's mentors who, among other things, provide support close to the caseworkers, introduce new employees, and quality assure decision documentation, among other things. In the role, you work closely with the social workers on the unit to provide support and guide them in their daily work, which is often complex and challenging. You report to the sector manager for children and families and are part of the management group together with the four other unit managers and the sector manager. You have a strong interest in environmental monitoring and actively contribute to the joint work within the management group. Your Competence and Experience We are looking for you who is a confident, responsive, and clear leader. You have an easy time building trust and get people on board through dialogue, participation, and clear communication. You create understanding for shared goals, priorities, and expectations and take responsibility for both the business results and employees' work environment. Through your leadership, you create good conditions for active employee engagement. You have good judgment and the ability to make well-founded decisions even in complex and difficult situations. You see opportunities rather than obstacles and enjoy working with others to find solutions. For us, collaboration is an important success factor. Therefore, you need to be able to see the business from a holistic perspective and build good relationships both within your own organization and with other actors. You are development-oriented and proactive and see opportunities to improve working methods, quality, and results. You enjoy working with others to develop the business and find solutions that create value for those we serve, in part through an active interest in environmental monitoring. Formally, we are looking for you who have: a degree in social work multi-year and current management experience within the sector work experience from social services authority with children and youth as the target group very good knowledge of the laws, policy documents, and rules that govern social services very good ability to express yourself well in Swedish, both orally and in writing It is meritorious if you have: knowledge and experience of working based on Signs of Safety knowledge of EARL, ADAD, or other relevant knowledge supports for the sector experience with full managerial responsibility (budget, operations, and personnel responsibility) current experience with change management and systematic quality work. We will place great emphasis on personal suitability, engagement, and motivation for the position. Your Application We recruit without a cover letter to strengthen focus on the competencies and experiences required for the role. When evaluating your application, we will only rely on your CV and a number of questions you will answer when applying for the position. We ask that you answer the questions concretely and briefly, and that there is a clear link between your answers and your CV. The application must be submitted in Swedish. We will conduct a rolling selection and may contact candidates before the final application deadline. We will use work psychological tests in the final phase of the recruitment process. In connection with any employment, you will need to present an extract from the criminal record register. Warmly welcome with your application! Stockholm City works with competence-based recruitment that aims to recognize each person's competence and thereby counteract discrimination. Remember to never upload an extract from the Police Register (Data Protection Regulation, GDPR) in connection with your application.