Unit Manager, Outpatient Care

Our municipality is characterized by the well-known Gnosjö spirit. Here, entrepreneurship, helpfulness, and ingenuity show that anything is possible. Family business is in our DNA, and children can start their own ventures even in school. At our workplace, communication channels are short, offering the proximity only a small municipality can provide. We offer you meaningful work in an exciting location. Here, there are opportunities for development and bold new ideas. Open Care is a unit within the Social Services Administration. Open Care forms the authority and social welfare, together with disability support and other individual and family care services. Open Care consists of a support team including field secretaries, treatment staff, housing support workers, personal representatives, and counselors from the family center and youth clinic. Open Care works with both preventive measures and needs-based interventions. Currently, the operation is developing home-based solutions. The unit today consists of about ten employees and part-time staff. The Open Care Unit Manager will closely collaborate with the Children and Youth Unit Manager and Adult Unit Manager to work on service quality, employee support, and direct management. The Unit Manager balances employee availability and conditions, assisted by a coordinator. If you want to make social work a field where people with competence, ambition, and heart can develop and form a stable foundation for continuously evolving social work, you are the right person for us. RESPONSIBILITIES As Unit Manager, you have comprehensive operational, personnel, and budget responsibility for Open Care. You lead and develop the unit with a focus on quality, legal certainty, and individual well-being. The assignment includes: • Leading, distributing, and following up on activities against set goals • Ensuring structured and evidence-based treatment work in all teams • Conducting systematic quality work and initiating/leading development efforts • Responsible for work environment, information, and communication • Closely collaborating with other unit managers in individual and family care for smooth flows between investigation and implementation Monitor legislation and method development, translating this into sustainable work practices. The new Social Services Act (effective from July 1, 2025) emphasizes earlier and preventive interventions and crime prevention. You will play a key role in the transition to a more proactive and knowledge-based approach. QUALIFICATIONS We seek someone who is confident in themselves and their role, communicates well verbally and in writing, and enjoys collaboration. Humor, flexibility, and being receptive are qualities we highly value. You also need to be a present leader. Want to develop individual and family care in Gnosjö while also having opportunities for personal growth? We expect you to have a Social Work degree or equivalent education. Naturally, you have previous management experience in social services' individual and family care. Personally, you are unpretentious, self-assured, and committed to developing both the unit and employees. You prefer seeing possibilities over difficulties and enjoy challenges in finding constructive solutions to complex problems. You are humble and receptive to others' perspectives and experiences, capable of guiding both inexperienced and seasoned staff. You are a role model for your professional colleagues and excel at internal and external collaboration. The assignment requires good cooperation both internally and externally. A driver's license is required. Upon employment, you must provide a criminal record extract and documents verifying work permits. OTHER To ensure quality in Gnosjö municipality's recruitment process and enable good communication with applicants, we ask you to submit your application through our recruitment tool "Public Jobs". Apply directly via the link in the advertisement. Welcome to apply! For the recruitment process, Gnosjö municipality has established recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore firmly decline contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.