Psychiatry Northwest Seeks Unit Manager for Department 161, Danderyd Hospital

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Box 22550, Stockholm, Švédsko

We are now seeking an engaged unit manager with previous management experience in healthcare. You want to contribute to offering care of the highest quality and safety from the patient's perspective by creating conditions for the department's staff so they can perform their work in the best possible way. Our vision "Right care when and where you need it" together with our core values: Patient focus, Equal value for all, and Work joy form the foundation for the department's work. About the Department Department 161 is a general psychiatric care unit with a focus on bipolar disorder. The department has a total of 17 care beds, one of which is for voluntary admission. Patients are admitted 24/7. In addition to patients with bipolar disorder, the department also cares for patients with diagnoses such as depression and other affective disorders, severe anxiety conditions, personality syndromes, various neuropsychiatric diagnoses, and suicidality. At department 161, an engaged and competent work group is employed, several of whom have worked at the department for many years. Staff actively work to create a pleasant and good care environment to promote patient recovery. Work takes place in a well-developed interprofessional collaboration between nurses, doctors, healthcare assistants, occupational therapist, and social worker. The department will implement SafeWards. The department is located high up with great natural light and a view over Edsviken. Job Responsibilities As unit manager, your overall role is to lead, monitor, and develop the operations together with your staff, primarily healthcare assistants and nurses. You are responsible for the department's balanced budget, personnel, work environment, environment, and patient safety. The latter in close collaboration with the department's senior physician who is the medically responsible physician. Daily work on personnel planning occurs in close collaboration with the assistant unit manager who also handles much of the administration at the department. Your role is to lead and coach the department's staff so that they in turn have the opportunity to perform their work in the best possible way. You take advantage of and enable the realization of employees' good ideas. Employment Type Permanent employment as a registered nurse with a three-year assignment as unit manager for department 161 (40 hours/week). Start date by agreement. Qualifications Registered nurse and specialist education in psychiatry are meriting. Experience in management and leadership, preferably with training in the field, is desirable. Personal Qualities You are engaged, clear, and communicative in your leadership. You can spread work joy in the staff group and have the ability to get different personnel categories to work toward common goals. We see that you are action-oriented and independent in your way of handling situations that arise, sometimes stressful, and work structured to achieve the department's goals. You are a person who is comfortable with overall responsibility and have both an interest in and knowledge of personnel matters and economy. You have good collaboration skills with other unit managers both within 24-hour care and within the outpatient care section. Furthermore, we look forward to you having the ability and interest to broaden your perspective and be able to influence the clinic's development and overarching issues. You report to the section manager and are part of the 24-hour care section's management group. We place great importance on personal suitability. Other We offer generous benefits such as flexible working hours, wellness allowance and wellness hour, free open healthcare, multiple insurances, and an extended number of vacation days for those over 40 years old. We apply individual salary setting. Feel free to read more about the benefits on our website. Getting to the department is easy as our building is located right next to the bus station and subway. If you prefer to cycle instead, there are good and safe bike paths from Stockholm city. Warmly welcome to submit your application! The position is filled on the condition that it does not need to be used for internal reallocation, according to applicable regulations. For patient-facing work within Stockholm County Healthcare Area: - background checks are applied before employment decision according to SLSO's overarching instructions for background checks in employment. - employees who will have patient contact must undergo a new employee health examination, according to applicable directives, which is conducted through occupational health services before employment. - in addition to Swedish professional credentials, good knowledge of the Swedish language corresponding to level C1 according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) is required. The same requirement is guiding for non-licensed personnel with patient contact. Stockholm County Healthcare Area (SLSO) is one of Sweden's largest healthcare providers with 11,600 employees. We provide healthcare within psychiatry, primary care, geriatrics, ASIH, acute care centers, somatic specialist care, habilitation and health, and aids in Region Stockholm. 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