Unit Manager for Ung Hisingen

GÖTEBORGS KOMMUN · Vollzeit

Göteborgs Stad, Göteborg, Schweden

Description The Social Administration Hisingen is divided into departments including Children and Youth Authority, Children and Youth Resources, Children and Youth Foster Care, Adults, Subsistence Support, City District, Welfare and Recreation, and support functions such as HR, Finance, and Administration. The Children and Youth Resources department consists of approximately 120 employees across six units - Preventive Unit 0-6, Preventive Unit 6-18, Ung Hisingen, Family Resource Unit, Children Resource Unit, and High-Intensity Resource Unit. Job Responsibilities Do you want to lead and develop work for children and youth on Hisingen? We are now seeking a unit manager for Ung Hisingen as our current manager moves on to new challenges. Ung Hisingen is an engaged and development-oriented unit with three operational areas: youth treatment, field work, and employment through municipal activity responsibility (KAA) and Ung Extra, which focuses on arranging extra jobs for high school students. You will lead the unit with the support of two method supervisors, one for field work and employment and one for youth treatment. As a unit manager, you have personnel, budget, and operational responsibility. You lead, coordinate, develop, and follow up on work based on applicable legislation, guidelines, and operational goals. The assignment also includes developing employees' competence and conducting systematic workplace environment work. Your leadership should create engagement, clear direction, and good conditions for employees to carry out their tasks. You are present in the operations and create security and structure in daily work, while driving long-term development. Together with employees and colleagues, you develop open care and preventive work for children and youth. You strengthen the child perspective and participation of children, youth, and their families, and drive work toward evidence-based practice. You are responsible for legal certainty and quality in the operations. Two current development areas are interventions without needs assessment (IUB) and systematic individual-based follow-up (ISU). The unit is part of ongoing development work and organizational review. This means that the unit's assignment may change and that you need to manage operations even when conditions change. You are part of the department management group together with the department manager, unit manager colleagues, process leaders, finance controller, HR specialist, and operations developer. There you contribute to the entire department's development and joint work. You also participate in internal and external collaboration groups, including Trygg i, SSPF (school, social services, police, and recreation) and KAA, as well as in the city's unit manager network for children and youth. Your assignment also includes workplace environment responsibility for the employees in your unit, which means that workplace environment work must be conducted in accordance with applicable laws and guidelines, and that labor union cooperation occurs according to the cooperation agreement. Operations are located at multiple addresses. Your workplace is at Höstvädersgatan, where parts of the unit are located. You have support functions in your management role, including administration, finance, HR, and operations development. Qualifications We are seeking someone with a degree in social work or other university education that the employer considers equivalent. You have experience working in open care and preventive activities for children and youth. You should also have experience in management and leadership training; management experience is a merit. Experience in authority work directed toward children and youth is a merit. You are a confident and clear leader who creates engagement and participation. You provide employees with support and the conditions to take responsibility, while clearly communicating goals, priorities, and expectations. You have good collaboration skills and communicate clearly and attentively. You build trusting relationships and cooperate with colleagues in open care, preventive work, and authority operations, as well as with external collaboration partners. You work in a structured and analytical manner. You can translate goals into concrete activities, follow up on results, and use them to develop operations. You have the ability to handle both daily matters and long-term development needs. You take initiative and drive development work together with others. When conditions change, you create clarity and help employees understand and contribute to the change. Together with colleagues, you want to develop appropriate open care services based on the needs of children, youth, and families. Other Information For your interview, you need to bring a passport/national ID and possibly proof of residence permit if you have citizenship outside the EU/EES. This is so we as an employer can verify your identity and ensure that you have the right to work in Sweden. Göteborgs Stad applies individual and differentiated salary setting. Here you can find more information about, among other things, salary statistics Salary, compensation and benefits - Göteborgs Stad About Us The Social Administration Hisingen is part of social services in Göteborgs Stad. We are one of four social administrations. We work purposefully to create a better everyday life for residents of Hisingen. We offer support in individual and family care, social emergency duty, help with substance abuse, and integration matters. We also work with recreational activities and preventive work in areas such as public health, urban planning, local safety work, and integration matters. Do you want important and meaningful work? Welcome to the Social Administration Hisingen!