Unit Manager for Elderly Care

Young, expanding Bollebygd is a municipality with potential for the future, characterized by a holistic approach, sustainable development, and growth. The municipality employs around 650 staff members and is responsible for some of Sweden's most important tasks. Children's learning, quality care and support, sustainable community development, and environmental issues are just a few examples. The municipality strives to be an attractive employer where employee participation and leadership are marked by involvement and opportunities for influence. Bollebygd has a population of just under 10,000 residents. Located just 30 minutes from Gothenburg, Borås, and Alingsås, Bollebygd enjoys a geographically advantageous position. The municipality offers rich outdoor activities with a ski slope, beautiful hiking trails, and a golf course set in a countryside environment. Bollebygd has well-developed operations with high quality and a vibrant business community with over 1,000 entrepreneurs. Please feel free to learn more at bollebygd.se. JOB DESCRIPTION Your mission as a unit manager is to plan, lead, and drive your operations based on a user focus where the individual's needs are at the center. Finding the best solutions for the individual and achieving high user satisfaction is a given goal. You will be responsible for operations, finances, personnel, and working environment. To meet future demands and expectations, a systematic quality assurance process is a natural part of your leadership role. As a unit manager, you are responsible for staffing and recruitment, as well as actively working with your teams. The role involves a high degree of collaboration across various arenas, which requires your ability and willingness to create good relationships and collaboration. Through your leadership style, resource allocation, and development efforts, you provide your staff with the right conditions to deliver quality care and support. This role includes being the Duty Manager (Chef i beredskap, CiB). As a unit manager, you have overall responsibility for your operations, focusing on creating security and quality for our care recipients as well as a good working environment for our employees. You will be a vital part of a new management team where we set the direction forward together. We believe in collaboration, openness, and building a workplace where both heart and mind have a place. QUALIFICATIONS We are looking for someone with commitment, drive, and a willingness to continue developing elderly care in Bollebygd. You have experience in leadership within care and support, and you are passionate about creating good conditions for both staff and care recipients. You are confident in your role as a leader, like to think innovatively, and have a genuine interest in people. Requirements: • A degree from a relevant higher education institution, preferably with a focus on social work, health and medical care, organization, or leadership, or another higher education that the employer considers equivalent. • Experience as a manager, preferably within elderly care or another care and support service. Meritorious: • Experience working in care and support. To succeed in the role of unit manager, you must be able to prioritize your work, find different solutions, demonstrate decisiveness, and get things done. You find it easy to prioritize and create structure in your work. Together with your staff, as well as with your fellow managers and the operations manager, you will work with clear goals and follow-ups as a natural working method. Alongside your colleagues, you will drive common operational issues, so we see that you have a holistic view of elderly care and can adapt both yourself and the organization to new challenges and needs. You are a confident leader, and your leadership style is characterized by open and direct communication, a lack of pretentiousness, and attentiveness. We place great importance on personal suitability. Interview Dates: November 26 and December 3. OTHER We strive for a balanced gender distribution and see diversity as a strength; hence we welcome applicants from varied backgrounds. For those applying for a position that involves working with children, you will need to present a record extract from the criminal register before employment. Before a potential employment, you will need to present a valid passport or national ID for verification of identity and citizenship. If you are not a citizen of Sweden, the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, you must be able to provide a valid residence/work permit or demonstrate that you are exempt from the requirement to hold a work permit. We have predetermined our recruitment channels and marketing strategies for the recruitment process. Therefore, we kindly request that media sellers, recruitment websites, and similar services refrain from contacting us. We utilize e-recruitment to streamline and ensure the quality of the recruitment process. All your information will be stored in your CV account, and you can easily log in and update your details whenever you wish. Therefore, please fill in your information as carefully as possible to provide an accurate representation of yourself. The data will be processed and stored in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We warmly welcome your application!