Unit Manager for Personal Assistance

Gävle Municipality offers interesting and challenging jobs with excellent opportunities for you to grow. In the coastal city of Gävle, you are close to nature, culture, and experiences. Do you want to help take Gävle into the future? We are now looking for someone who wants to make Gävle even better together with us! The employees of Welfare Gävle make Gävle safer for children, young people, the elderly, individuals with disabilities, and people in vulnerable situations. We also work to create the best conditions for adult learning and personal development. We offer future-oriented professions that both challenge and develop you, and you will work on what truly matters. Together, we make Gävle a safer place! Personal assistance is available within Welfare Gävle. There are six units within personal assistance that collectively support our clients in Gävle Municipality. Our mission operates under the Act on Support and Service for Certain Disabled Persons (LSS). JOB DESCRIPTION Do you want to lead an operation that contributes to safety, participation, and quality of life for Gävle's residents? Then we are looking for you! As the unit manager for personal assistance, you will be a present and operational leader for one of our six units. Together with your managerial colleagues, you will drive efforts to create high participation, quality, and safety for clients who are entitled to personal assistance under LSS. You will be responsible for the employees' work environment and ensure that the operations are conducted with a sustainable economy in balance. Your role includes leading the unit's work towards increased independence, participation, and good quality of life for our clients, within the framework of legislation and operational goals. You will be part of the management team and actively contribute to our joint development work. As a unit manager, you will lead and delegate work with trust, clarity, and security. The role entails operational responsibility, employee responsibility, work environment responsibility, and financial responsibility. You are expected to be a driving change leader who creates engagement, participation, and good conditions for both your team and the management group as a whole. QUALIFICATIONS Formal Requirements • Higher education in social care or another relevant field. • Experience as a manager or leader with responsibility for finances and personnel. • Work experience with the target group and operations in the field. Meritorious • Experience working in a politically governed organization. • Experience in the field of personal assistance. Personal Competencies You: • Understand the whole and provide clear direction • Clarify goals and explain why they are important • Delegate and create room for action • Motivate and encourage development • Lead closely to the operations and be accessible You: • Explain decisions and contexts clearly and credibly • Base your arguments on facts • Create open dialogue • Give, seek, and accept constructive feedback You: • Develop operations based on the needs and goals of the clients • Identify collaboration opportunities for the benefit of the clients • Show financial awareness in decisions and priorities We offer you: • An important managerial role where you make a difference for Gävle's residents every day • A workplace with team spirit, where collaboration is a task • The chance to be part of a team with various professions where everyone is important to the whole • The opportunity to work long-term on operational development in a socially significant area • Close leadership in an organization where we support each other forward Welcome with your application! OTHER Union Representatives: • Ever Alvarado, Vision • Sara Lasell, Akademikerförbundet SSR • Hanna Romin, Kommunal Gävle To ensure the quality of the recruitment process in Gävle Municipality and to enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally via Visma Recruit, not via email or paper format. If you have a protected identity, please contact the recruiting manager and do not submit your application digitally. Gävle Municipality has a decision regarding the right to full-time employment, which means that permanent employees can request that the position be a full-time role. This request must be accommodated within six months, calculated from the first day of employment. To have the right to full-time employment met, you may need to perform other tasks than those normally included in your employment. Gävle Municipality is part of the Finnish administrative area. Therefore, if you also speak Finnish in addition to our other competency requirements, it may be an asset. In preparation for the recruitment work, Gävle Municipality has made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore firmly request no contact from media sellers, recruitment sites, or similar.