11 jobs in Boxholm

Unit Manager for Residential Care Facility

Welcome to Boxholm – where life is close by In Boxholm Municipality, you live with everything you need within reach. Here, approximately 5,500 residents appreciate the proximity to both services and nature. Imagine having shops, schools, preschools, a swimming hall, and commuter trains – all just a few minutes' walk from the center. And when you want to swap small-town life for big-city energy, you can easily reach Linköping by commuter train in just 30 minutes. Plus, you have nature literally at your doorstep – perfect for recovery, outdoor activities, and quality of life in your daily routine. In Boxholm, you get the best of both worlds: the calm, safe, and nature-close – with big-city opportunities just a stone's throw away. At the same time, the community pulses with an active civic life and people with strong drive. There is a rich offering of sports, culture, and volunteer initiatives that engage both young and old. Together, we build a municipality where community, engagement, and faith in the future grow stronger every day. 1 position(s). Would you like a developing and meaningful leadership assignment where you get the opportunity to make a real difference for both elderly residents and employees? The Social Services Department is now seeking a unit manager for our residential care facilities. About the Role As a unit manager, you join the Social Services Department's management team and have an important role in leading, developing, and following up on operations based on applicable legislation, political goals, and the organization's mission. You have overall responsibility for quality, finances, personnel, and work environment at the municipality's two residential care facilities, Duvan and Svalan. In a smaller municipality, the role entails broad and varied responsibilities where you need to feel confident handling many different issues, working independently, and knowing when you need to collaborate or seek support on various matters. An important part of the assignment is working with staffing and resource allocation from a holistic perspective, where operational needs drive the planning. Through present, clear, and engaged leadership, you create good conditions for safe care of high quality. The assignment includes, among other things: leading, allocating, and following up on operations responsible for budget, forecasting, and financial monitoring responsible for staffing and competence supply drive change and development work work with systematic quality assurance collaborate with relatives, authorities, healthcare, and other stakeholders monitor the external environment within the scope of the assignment and then implement this in practice Qualifications We are looking for someone with higher education in a relevant field and: leadership experience within social services experience with personnel responsibility experience with budget work experience with work environment efforts good knowledge of the Social Services Act, Care of Older Persons Act, and relevant regulations experience with change and development work basic knowledge of labor law related to personnel responsibility and work environment good administrative ability and experience working in management systems good ability to express yourself well in Swedish, both verbally and in writing It is meritorious if you have experience with: work in a politically governed organization Personal Qualities We are looking for someone with trust-based and clear leadership and the ability to create engagement and participation. You have good collaboration skills while thriving in a role where you take personal responsibility and make decisions. You are organized and find it easy to prioritize in a day-to-day situation where conditions can change. We expect you to: have a development-oriented work approach and want to contribute to improvements be communicative and create good relationships in your leadership be stable and confident even in challenging situations have the ability to switch between a holistic perspective and details in daily operations Great weight will be placed on personal suitability. Other Information The position is a permanent employment with trust-based working hours. The assignment includes on-call management duty according to schedule. Salary form: Monthly salary. Employment form: Permanent employment. Duration: Permanent. Working hours: Daytime.