Unit Manager for Disability Services

Description:

Ulricehamns Municipality is in an exciting growth phase - we are expanding while maintaining our small-scale character. As the largest employer with over 2,200 employees in 100 different professional roles, we offer meaningful work where development, community, and social benefit come together. With Vision 2040 - "Together Towards the Future" - we shape an innovative and sustainable everyday life, together. Here you make a real difference every day, in a culture characterized by courage, commitment, and opportunities to grow, both professionally and personally. Ulricehamns Municipality's Welfare Sector consists of four operations: disability services, home care and health care in the home, individual and family care, and care and residential facilities. The disability services operation works every day, year-round, to provide our users with the support they need for a meaningful life, including housing, personal assistance, accompaniment, day activities, and contact person services. The operation consists of ten units, including one unit for authority functions and nine service provider units. We are now seeking a unit manager for one of our service provider operations! 1 position(s). JOB RESPONSIBILITIES As a unit manager, you report directly to the operations manager for disability services (FN) and are a natural part of FN's management group. As a unit manager, you have personnel responsibility and workplace environment responsibility and are involved in matters related to labor law. You are responsible for staffing and recruitment and work actively with the staff teams. You conduct, among other things, workplace meetings and employee and salary discussions. As a unit manager, you work with people and are a highly present leader. The assignment includes maintaining a balanced budget against set targets and optimizing resources through development and continuous improvement of operations. Within Ulricehamns Municipality, there is a clear focus on actively working with solutions in the user's home environment. We use an approach based on a solution-oriented and creative approach tailored to each user's unique needs and possibilities. As a leader, we strive toward a trust-based approach. QUALIFICATIONS You have relevant higher education, such as a degree in social work or other education and courses that the employer finds equivalent. You have experience with similar work within LSS (Act on Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments) operations or other experience in social work with strong knowledge in the field. You have knowledge of relevant legislation as well as economics and labor law. Previous leadership experience is a merit. We offer you an operation that is constantly undergoing development and change, which makes high demands on you as a manager, but also offers great opportunities for development. We are looking for someone who is innovative and creative and who will proactively and strategically drive this continued change and development work. During the journey, it is important that you are empathetic, responsive, and communicative. You have a good ability to create and maintain good relationships, high collaborative skills while being independent, accustomed to making your own sound decisions with economic awareness and clear customer focus in mind. We require a driver's license and will place great emphasis on personal suitability. Employment form: Permanent employment. Duration: Permanent, Start date: Start date to be agreed. Provisional interview dates: July 28-31. In preparing the recruitment process, we have made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore firmly decline contact from media sales representatives, recruitment websites, and similar. When you apply for a job with us, we only accept applications through our recruitment system for processing in accordance with GDPR. Please note that according to the principle of public access, application documents are public documents that are released upon request. If you as an applicant are covered by confidentiality, you are asked to contact the contact person for this announcement.

Overview

Type

job

Status

active

Visibility

public

City

Ulricehamn

GPS

57.78480267546, 13.419401260112copyopen in

Phone

0321-59 67 12

Views

6

Published

10. 6. 2026

Edited

21. 6. 2026

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