Unit Manager for Home Care Services

Stockholm – our capital city with millions of dreams, expectations, and ambitions. We work for everyone living here today and in the future. Now we're seeking you who want to think big, new, and differently with us – for the people of Stockholm. Skarpnäck District Administration offers you a workplace where active employee participation and clear leadership form the foundation for providing Stockholm residents with the best possible service. Since we collectively create our work environment, openness, respect, and attentiveness are crucial. Welcome to Us We are growing and are therefore seeking a Unit Manager for our municipal home care services, with locations in Hammarbyhöjden, Bagarmossen, and Skarpnäck. Together with two fellow managers, you will be responsible for Skarpnäck's municipal home care, where our work is characterized by professionalism and participation, with a focus on citizens. We Offer We offer a workplace with a strong collaborative culture and strong commitment to quality and development, where quality, development, and the elderly's participation are in focus. As Unit Manager, you will work closely with other managers in the division's management team for service operations and report to the Area Manager and Division Manager. The management team also collaborates closely with the division and administration's quality and support functions such as HR and finance. The division's management team is LGBTQI-certified. The workplace offers benefits such as the opportunity for vacation exchange, wellness allowance, and we also apply winter and summer working hours. Please read more about benefits as an employee in the City of Stockholm: https://jobba.stockholm/formaner/ Your Role This is an exciting and meaningful assignment with the opportunity to influence and shape the future of home care. The role offers both operational and strategic challenges, always focusing on quality, structure, and user benefits. You will lead one of three geographical areas and have direct personnel responsibility for approximately 30 employees, with support from planners and close collaboration with management colleagues and support functions within the area, division, and administration. Your responsibilities also include leading and developing the operation based on the city's goals, managing staffing, budget, and intervention planning. This may involve analyzing and ensuring scheduling for your employees. You will also drive improvement work and innovation together with your colleagues. The role requires you to be a leader driven by working with good quality, achieving a balanced budget, and leading through change. Your Competence and Experience We are seeking someone who has: • Academic education in a relevant field, for example with a focus on social work. • Good knowledge of elderly care and relevant legislation and guiding documents. • Documented management experience with personnel, economic, and budget responsibilities. • Experience in driving and maintaining collaboration, development, and quality work. • Interest in intervention planning and logistics. • Good Swedish language skills, both spoken and written. • Digital competence and interest in welfare technology. You are confident in your leadership, have experience leading larger work groups, and a good ability to structure, follow up, lead change, and drive development. It is meritorious if you have: • Experience collaborating with both managers and employees through dialogue and adapting your working method to create contacts, relationships, and engagement. • Familiarity with conveying messages in both individual meetings and larger groups. • Experience with municipal home care. During the interview, we will examine the following personal competencies and abilities: • Your leadership is present and based on trust. • Ability to create engagement, participation, and provide your employees with good conditions. • Result-focused and driven to improve the operation, always with the user in focus. • Creating good relationships, having good collaborative abilities, and seeing the importance of collaboration both internally and externally. Other Information We are recruiting without a personal letter in this recruitment to strengthen focus on the competencies and experiences requested for this role. In assessing your application, we will only consider your CV and a number of questions you will answer when applying for the position. We wish for you to respond concretely and concisely to the questions, with a clear connection between your answers and your CV. Do not hesitate to submit your application; selection and interviews will be conducted on an ongoing basis. If you are offered a job with us, we will ask you to show an extract from the Police Criminal Record Register. You need to request this extract via the police website: Check Own Information (polisen.se). The extract we want to see is called "Check of Own Information in the Criminal Record Register". The City of Stockholm works with competence-based recruitment aimed at seeing each person's competence and thereby counteracting discrimination. The division is LGBTQI