Unit Manager for Support Services (LSS)

Kristinehamns kommun · Vollzeit

Kristinehamn kommun, Kristinehamn, Schweden

A meaningful leadership role where you make a difference every day. Are you looking for a leadership position that combines social impact, organizational development, and working with people? Do you thrive in a daily environment where no two days are the same and where you can use your full leadership capabilities? Then this role might be for you. We are now recruiting a Unit Manager for Support Services (LSS), an operation that makes a real difference for people every day. Here you will have the opportunity to help people with extensive support needs live independent lives with influence, participation, and high quality of life. The Support, Care, and Social Services Department is an organization with strong confidence in the future, great commitment, and a focus on development. Here, approximately 750 employees work within elderly care, home care services, support services, healthcare, and social assistance administration. Together, we create conditions for people to live secure and independent lives. For us, people always come first. We work person-centered and start from each individual's needs, abilities, and wishes. Through respectful relationships, participation, and a strong focus on quality, we create services that truly make a difference. With us, you will be part of an engaged and competent management team that implements decisions made within LSS and personal assistance (SFB). The management group is characterized by collaboration, a focus on development, and shared responsibility for the quality and results of the operation. We know that sustainable leadership requires the right conditions. Therefore, we offer, among other things: • Support from an administrator, coordinator, economist, SAS, MAS, MAR, HR, and recruitment and staffing unit. • Introduction and mentor. • Some possibility for remote work. • Holiday exchange, wellness allowance, and favorable collective transportation solutions. • An active staff club that contributes to community and well-being. 1 position(s). RESPONSIBILITIES As a Unit Manager, you have a broad and varied role with responsibility for operations, budget, work environment, staff, and service users. It is a role where one moment you work strategically with development issues and long-term planning, and the next moment you handle operational questions regarding staffing, recruitment, or daily operations. This is a role for you if you appreciate variety and are motivated by having many points of contact and several parallel processes running simultaneously. You will make decisions, solve challenges, lead change initiatives, and at the same time ensure that the operation delivers services of high quality to the people we exist for. Together with colleagues in the management group, you drive, develop, and follow up the operation based on set goals. We work based on trust-based leadership where participation, responsibility, and commitment are important success factors. The role includes, among other things: • Lead, develop, and follow up the operation against set goals. • Be responsible for budget, personnel, and work environment. • Ensure a qualitative and lawful operation. • Manage daily operations with staffing and recruitment. • Drive development and improvement initiatives to meet future needs. • Work based on applicable legislation, guidelines, and procedures. • Contribute to close collaboration within the management group and across the department as a whole. QUALIFICATIONS We are looking for someone with relevant university education, for example, social work, nursing, human resources, or other education that the employer considers equivalent. It is a merit if you have experience in management or leadership roles, financial management, and development and quality work. Experience from municipal operations or the support services field (LSS) is also a merit. To succeed in this role, you need to be a confident and stable leader with the ability to build trust and establish good relationships. You communicate easily, collaborate well, and know how to create engagement in the people around you. This is a role that places high demands on capacity, flexibility, and structure. You need to be able to switch between strategic and operational questions, prioritize among many tasks, and make well-founded decisions even when the pace is high. You thrive in a complex operation where changes are a natural part of everyday work, and where your ability to remain calm, focused, and on direction is crucial. We believe that you: • Are confident, stable, and resilient in your leadership. • Have good ability to prioritize and organize your work. • Can handle many ongoing matters simultaneously without losing the big picture. • Are flexible and solution-oriented. • Are development-driven and see opportunities in change. • Have a professional approach and contribute to a positive work environment. We place great emphasis on personal suitability. A Class B driver's license is required. Employment type: Permanent employment. Duration: Start date: To be agreed upon. OTHER If you are not a citizen of Sweden, the EU, EEA, or Switzerland and are offered employment, you must be able to prove that you have a valid work permit or are exempt from the requirement to have a work permit. In Kristinehamn Municipality, we work for active leadership and staff engagement. This is created through dialogue and interaction between leaders and staff, which creates good conditions for job satisfaction in the organization. Our work environment is affected by how we treat each other, and we all have a responsibility to contribute. Together, we work to ensure that the operation achieves its goals and that decisions made are also followed through. A curious mindset and willingness to collaborate are prerequisites for continuous improvements that lead to the best possible service to the municipality's residents. As an employee with us, you can expect support for new ideas, good development opportunities, and that we provide you with the tools you need to perform your work well. Kristinehamn Municipality views diversity as a strength and welcomes all applicants. Our competence-based recruitment methodology aims to focus on the individual's competence and thereby also prevent discrimination. We look forward to receiving your application! To ensure quality in the recruitment process and maintain good communication with you as a job seeker with us, we ask that you only submit your application via the application link in the announcement. Questions regarding the recruitment process are handled by the recruitment unit.