Unit Manager LSS – Lead and Develop Our Residential Home for Children and Youth

Stenungsunds kommun · plný úvazek

Stenungsunds kommun, Stenungsund, Švédsko

Stenungsund, the good community with confidence in the future and development with people and nature at its center. Stenungsund Municipality is an expanding coastal municipality with approximately 28,030 residents, a strong business sector, residential environments near the sea, and good communication options. The municipality has a well-developed cultural and civic life, as well as excellent conditions for outdoor activities and recreation. Wholeness, openness, participation, and transparency are the municipality's guiding principles. The municipality's vision is to become 35,000 residents by 2035. Stenungsund Municipality is part of the Gothenburg Region Municipal Association, which is a forum for collaboration and experience exchange, as well as several other municipal collaborations. Do you want to lead an operation where quality, safety, and development have direct significance for children and youth with extensive support needs? As a unit manager for our LSS residential home for children and youth, you will receive an independent and meaningful management assignment with clear authority and good opportunities to make an impact. You lead the operation close to your employees and develop it with the child's best interests, quality, and legal certainty as your starting point. The residence has three places and targets children and youth with extensive support needs. It is a small operation in scope – but a significant and qualified assignment. Here, good leadership is about more than structure, staffing, and planning. It is about creating the best possible conditions for each child to feel safe, be listened to, be included, and live as independent and fulfilling a life as possible. We are looking for you to combine clear management responsibility with genuine commitment to children and youth's rights, development, and quality of life. You will be part of an operation with engaged employees and a clear focus on quality, development, and the individual's needs. 1 position(s). WORK TASKS As a unit manager, you have overall responsibility for the children's home and lead the operation based on mandate, legislation, quality, and the children's individual needs. You work both strategically and close to the operation. This means that you follow up on results and quality, drive development issues, and at the same time are a present manager who knows the operation and can make well-informed decisions. Your assignment includes, among other things: • lead, develop, and follow up on the operation • have personnel, work environment, financial, and operational responsibility • ensure quality, legal certainty, and compliance with current legislation • create clear goals, structure, and good conditions for employees • develop working methods and practices based on children's needs • work for an operation characterized by participation, safety, and continuity • collaborate with guardians, nurses, and other internal and external stakeholders. You work closely with the unit manager for the short-term operation. Together you drive common issues and create continuity and wholeness for the children, while you have clear individual responsibility and authority for the children's home. We believe in independent managers, but not in isolated managers. As a unit manager with us, you become part of an experienced and engaged management team where we collaborate closely, challenge each other, share experiences, and help each other when issues are complex. You also have access to several professional support functions, including operational developers, method developers, support educators, and coordinators, as well as other specialist functions within the organization. QUALIFICATIONS We are looking for you who have a degree in social work or another relevant university education that the employer deems equivalent. You also need to have the experience and personal suitability required to manage a residence with special services for children and youth according to LSS. For the position, you must: • have experience from management, supervisory, or other qualified leadership assignments • have good knowledge of LSS, SoL, and HSL • have experience working with children and youth within the LSS target group 1 • have experience with target groups with extensive support needs or multiple disabilities • have good understanding of children's needs, development, and rights • express yourself well in Swedish, both verbally and in writing • have a B driving license. We will also consider your overall management experience, your ability and potential to develop in the management role. For us, it is not just what you have done previously that matters, but also how you lead and how you want to develop as a manager. We are looking for a confident and clear leader who can set direction, make decisions, and create structure but who is at the same time responsive, unpretentious, and has the ability to bring people along. You build trust through presence, clarity, and respect. You see your employees' competence, create participation, and encourage responsibility. When situations become complex, you can maintain the overall perspective, prioritize, and make decisions. You have the courage to hold firm when needed, but also to reconsider when new perspectives or new knowledge show a better way. We place great emphasis on personal suitability and leadership potential. A valid criminal record certificate must be presented. Employment form: Permanent employment. We strive for a balanced gender distribution and see diversity as a strength, and therefore welcome applicants with different backgrounds. In preparation for our recruitment process, we have made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore strongly decline contact from media sales representatives, job boards, and similar. We use e-recruitment to streamline and quality-assure our recruitment process. All your information is saved on your CV account and you can easily log in and update your information whenever you wish. Please fill in your information as carefully as possible to give an accurate picture of yourself. For salary ranges, we refer to our website: http://www.stenungsund.se/lonestatistik If a salary range is missing for the current position, you are invited to contact the responsible manager according to the announcement. Background checks may be conducted before employment. We warmly welcome your application!