Department Head for New Department within Social Services, Trelleborg

The Social Services in Trelleborg is looking for a development-oriented and engaged leader for a new department focused on preventive work, authority, and home healthcare within the areas of care and support for people with disabilities.

As a leader, you will be a central part of the work to create a sustainable and attractive municipality characterized by creativity and future confidence.

The department will play an important role in ensuring that all residents receive the care and support they need for an independent life. You will also play an important role in the work with Close Care, which is now being developed in the municipality, as well as in the implementation of the new Social Services Act, which imposes new requirements on both organization and working methods.

Our mission: We are an administration that, through innovative solutions and a development-oriented approach, works to create social security and welfare for all residents of the municipality.

We offer:

A leadership role in an administration undergoing change and development. The opportunity to influence and develop an important part of Trelleborg Municipality. A creative and inclusive working climate with a strong focus on sustainability, social security, and adaptation to the new regulations in the new Social Services Act and the emerging local healthcare. If you want to contribute to creating a sense of future confidence for our residents and developing the operations in Trelleborg while navigating a time of exciting changes, we look forward to your application!

Job Responsibilities

You will ensure and further develop the administration's operations together with the management team. Together we create conditions for the administration's resources to be used effectively and in the best way. We emphasize achieving operational goals based on the existing financial frameworks. You will work directly under the head of the administration and be responsible for the administration's budget, operational plan, follow-up, and annual accounts with analysis. You will be part of the administration's management team and thus share the overall responsibility for the management and development of social services in Trelleborg Municipality. The role is broad and complex, and you will constantly monitor changes in legislation and other important external factors that affect operations to be proactive.

An important part of the assignment involves leading the operational area, primarily through 5 directly subordinate unit managers to create consensus and a strong holistic perspective. As a department head, you have a communicative leadership style characterized by dialogue, clarity, and presence. You recognize the importance of supporting and coaching your employees in their daily work. The role requires you to easily build trusting relationships and have good collaborative skills with both employees and trade unions. In this assignment, you have an important role in building up the new department and shaping a new organization to meet the new Social Services Act. Through your experience and broad knowledge, you will find new and sustainable paths in the challenges the administration faces, focusing on development, structure, and systematic improvement work.

Qualifications

We are looking for someone with experience in leading complex operations within care, support, or disability services. You are an engaged and communicative leader who sees the big picture and creates a positive work environment. You want to be involved in developing new working methods and an operation characterized by collaboration and innovation, especially within local healthcare and the new Social Services Act. You have a clear and value-based leadership style and can drive change strategically.

You have the necessary university or college degree that the employer deems relevant. Previous leadership experience with personnel, work environment, and budget responsibility is a requirement. You also have experience in leading subordinate managers. You have experience in public operations, as well as experience from work within social services or similar operations that run around the clock. A requirement is that you have a good understanding of the municipal decision-making process and what it means to work within a politically governed organization. As a department head, you are required to have an understanding and good knowledge of applicable legislation, budget processes, and personnel issues.

You see the big picture with an eye for detail, are analytical, structured, and meticulous. An interest in financial management and economic development work with an operational perspective is a prerequisite. You apply a goal- and results-oriented working method. You are interested in working with both strategic development issues and everyday problem-solving. Monitoring the external environment and future issues are important areas within the assignment. A strong interest in technological solutions within social services is an asset. You have an interest in leading development work. You have experience in motivating and inspiring your employees in their daily work and in change processes. You must have a good ability to express yourself in speech and writing.

The position will be filled based on the necessary decisions being made.

Application Deadline

April 21, 2025, via our recruitment system, not by mail or email. We apply personality and logic tests as a basis for selection, which, together with the CV, determines who proceeds to the second interview. We have planned to hold the first interviews on the following dates: April 22 from 1-2 PM, or 3-4 PM, April 23 from 11 AM-12 PM, April 29 from 10-11 AM, or 1-2 PM.

Union contacts: http://www.trelleborg.se/facket (http://www.trelleborg.se/facket)

Please note that we have removed the personal letter from the application process and replaced it with qualification and selection questions. This is for a more inclusive recruitment process and an efficient candidate experience for you applying for a job with us. Your answers will be an important part of our selection work.

In preparation for the recruitment work, Trelleborg Municipality has carefully considered recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore firmly request no contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, or similar.