Coordinator Wanted for Our New Transitional Care Unit!

Kungälv Municipality is looking for individuals who want to make a difference! We need professional and motivated staff to deliver high-quality welfare services. Here, engagement and professional service go hand in hand while you contribute to influencing people's daily lives and society at large. A good workplace culture and support for your personal development are important to us. Your efforts matter! **Description** Do you want to be part of starting up and contributing to the development of our new respite care unit? We are seeking a coordinator who wants to work with both respite care, safety places, and day activities, with the operation planned to start in 2026. **What are respite care, safety places, and day activities?** Respite care is a service within elderly care that allows a person to alternate between living at home and staying at the respite care unit for shorter, planned periods. Safety places are for when unforeseen events occur, and a person quickly needs care and security that cannot be arranged at home. Day activities allow a person to live at home but visit the day activity center a few days a week for social interaction and activities. **Responsibilities** In the role of coordinator for the respite care unit with safety places and day activities, you will have primary responsibility for coordinating care for our guests. In your role as coordinator, you may need to support care work as needed. You will work with administration in our scheduling system Time Care Planning. You will maintain close communication with managers/colleagues and finalize the schedule based on the needs of the operation, considering applicable laws, agreements, and the operation's finances. The role also includes collaborating with the manager/staffing controller to follow up and evaluate the staffing process, reviewing staffing needs and the schedule to develop work around planning and scheduling. You will also support employees in scheduling and reporting deviations in the personnel system Personec, as well as plan user interventions in the planning system TES. In this role, you will also work with short-term recruitment. This means ensuring staffing during absences, matching the right skills to the right assignments, and following up on bookings. You play a central role in maintaining continuity in the operation through close collaboration with both managers and substitutes. **Qualifications** **Requirements:** - Interest in the target group, dementia, and cognitive impairment. - Interest in staffing economics and knowledge of working time regulations, occupational health issues, and labor law are prerequisites for fulfilling the role. - High school diploma. **Meritorious:** - Experience in respite care, safety places, and day activities. - Experience in similar tasks within planning and staffing. - Experience in scheduling. - Experience in working with intervention planning. - Driver's license. Experience with system tools such as Personec, TES, Time Care Pool, and Time Care Planning is advantageous. KY/YH education in personnel and payroll administration is also meritorious, equivalent to post-secondary education deemed comparable by the employer. As a person, we see that you are customer-oriented, have a good ability to collaborate, and maintain a professional demeanor, as one of our tasks is to provide the operation with quality staff. The work requires you to be structured and solution-focused, able to prioritize your tasks during peak times and remain calm even in stressful situations. You see opportunities in complex situations and have a knack for problem-solving. You understand the importance of good communication to achieve results in your work. In this position, you will work 40 hours/week, Monday to Friday, with placement in the operation. Flexible agreements are available. We expect you to have good computer skills. Great emphasis will be placed on personal qualities. Selection and interviews will be conducted on an ongoing basis. At Kungälv Municipality, we value diversity and inclusion – differences are a strength for us. We look forward to your application! **Other** - Applications are only accepted digitally via kungalv.varbi.com. - Certificates/references will be provided upon request or during a possible interview. - Appointment is subject to the position not being claimed by existing staff due to redundancy or other reasons. - The selection process will take place continuously during the application period. - We use digital tools, and you may need to use e-identification in your work. - Before any employment, we require a valid identification card showing citizenship and a valid work permit. - A probationary period may be applied according to collective agreements. - In operations where work with children occurs, the employer requires a criminal record extract before the position is filled. - If you have protected personal data, do NOT apply via the system but contact the recruitment manager for handling your application. - We kindly but firmly request no direct contact with staffing and recruitment companies or sellers of additional job advertisements. - Kungälv Municipality has contracted agreements. - Testing may occur in the recruitment process.