Unit Manager for Home Care Southeast

Would you like to help make everyday life easier for the residents of Örebro? We are now expanding home care services in Örebro Municipality and are looking for a unit manager to lead the nurses in the Southeast Home Care area. Join an exciting journey and contribute to the development of our organization!

About the position

As a unit manager in Southeast Home Care, you will lead health and medical care in ordinary housing and have personnel, financial, and operational responsibility for nurses and assistant nurses working in home care. You will be responsible for a group of about 20 employees, and all conditions are in place for close leadership. You will collaborate with your unit manager colleague who will be responsible for the occupational therapists in the unit, as well as other unit managers within home care. You are responsible for following political decisions and set goals. The operations must be run with good quality within financial frameworks and based on the goal of increased influence and participation for citizens in need of our services. You lead the operations so that employees feel involved and engaged, and work for good collaboration between the different professional groups within the unit, as well as good external collaboration. The assignment includes monitoring and evaluating results from different perspectives such as quality and finance. As a unit manager, you report directly to the operations manager in home care and are part of the home care management team.

Implementation of a new agreement for health and medical care in the home is ongoing, and there is an intensive change process to reach the goal, something we do together with the region. To succeed, you therefore need experience in and enjoy leading change.

Examples of duties:

• personnel, financial, and operational responsibility
• team-oriented work with a focus on creating integrated care and support of the highest quality
• drive, develop, and follow up operations against set goals
• lead, support, and develop employees' competencies
• work with a holistic approach and make decisions within the operational area
• responsible for continuous monitoring of developments in the field
• collaborate with trade unions and other internal and external parties
• develop the operations towards constant quality improvement with the citizens in focus

About the workplace

Southeast Home Care is one of five home care areas in Örebro Municipality. Our catchment area consists of urban and rural areas in a varied and pleasant area. Our unit is in an exciting development phase where we work on various development projects such as a coordinator function. The aim is to improve accessibility for residents and improve the work environment for employees.

The Care and Support area is part of the Social Administration. The operations include care and support, preventive activities, exercise of public authority in the field, as well as housing placement and housing adaptation. Within the Care and Support area, we work to support and help people who need care, support, or assistance in their daily lives.

We offer you a meaningful job with interesting and challenging tasks. Örebro Municipality's leadership is based on our leadership platform, which clarifies expectations of you as a manager based on three parts: secure manager, proactive developer, and clear leader. As a manager in our organization, you will receive continuous competence development and have the opportunity to participate in the development of operations with the citizen in focus.

Qualifications

To succeed in the assignment, collaboration and cooperation with both managerial colleagues and all actors around patients and operations is required, so it is important that you have good collaborative skills. You need to be result-oriented and proactive with a strategic and broad perspective on issues. As a leader, you are communicative with the ability to encourage and inspire. You invite dialogue to create participation and encourage a work climate characterized by creativity and innovative solutions. As a person, you are secure, self-aware, and have the courage to act according to your own convictions. It is a prerequisite that you can express yourself well in speech and writing.

We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

Requirements:

• university degree as a registered nurse
• managerial experience including personnel, financial, and operational responsibility
• experience in driving change and development work
• experience in systematic patient safety work
• good knowledge of Microsoft Office package
• driver's license class B

Meriting:

• experience in leading nurses in municipal health and medical care
• experience of shared leadership
• leadership training
• experience with operational systems Lifecare, Medvind, Personec, TES, Raindance or equivalent

Scope and start date

Type of employment: permanent position

Employment rate: 100%

Start date: according to agreement

Number of positions: 1

Other information

In our recruitment process, we use Assessio's tests MAP and Matrigma. MAP is a personality test and Matrigma is a non-verbal aptitude test, both based on work psychology research. The tests are used as a complement to your experiences and competencies, and the purpose is to ensure the quality of our selection process.

Before being offered employment in care and support work, you need to present a extract from the criminal record.

Application

The last application date is May 24.

Welcome with your application!