Unit Manager for the Care Administration

We are proud of Trollhättan's city with over 5,000 employees who make a positive difference in our residents' lives every day and contribute to the city's sustainability and vitality. We are driven and motivated by the guiding principles of Courage, Participation, Innovation, and Action. Here, you can be part of an exciting development to make our city even better.

Are you a confident and experienced leader passionate about development, people, and the future of staffing and competence supply? Then this is the role for you!

About us

The Care Administration has approximately 2,000 employees who care for the municipality's elderly and people with some form of disability. Together, we create safe and quality care – work that makes a difference for people every day!

The unit for staffing and recruitment is a support function within the department for Quality and Development. We support managers within the Care Administration with recruitment, restructuring, schedule planning, staffing during short-term absences, and planning home care. The Care Administration is in an exciting time of development to meet the future welfare needs. In this restructuring work, our unit is an important partner in the continued progress. As a support function, our goal is to provide professional and valuable support. We work to create efficient processes and long-term solutions that strengthen the entire organization.

Currently, Trollhättan City is actively working on implementing trust-based governance and leadership – where trust, participation, and innovation drive us to achieve our common goals.

About the role

Together with your managerial colleague, you will share the responsibility for the unit, which means close collaboration but with a clear division of tasks. Your role includes leading employees in recruitment, vacancy management, and administration. You will also have personnel responsibility for hourly workers and pool employees.

Your responsibilities include:

• overall responsibility for personnel, finances, quality, and work environment
• leading and supporting operational work
• ensuring efficient and quality-assured processes
• working strategically with development and improvement efforts
• inspiring and developing employees
• monitoring the external environment and contributing new perspectives

You report directly to the quality manager of the administration and are part of the management group for Quality and Development.

Qualifications

We are looking for someone with an academic degree, preferably in human resources, behavioral science, or organizational science, or another relevant field deemed equivalent by the employer. You have documented managerial experience with good results and are accustomed to leading development and change efforts. Experience as a manager in municipal operations is an advantage. We also prefer that you have good knowledge of staffing, recruitment, and labor law. You are a proficient user of various systems and have a good ability to communicate and express yourself well in Swedish, both orally and in writing. A B driver's license is an advantage.

Who are you?

To succeed in the role of unit manager, we see that you are confident in yourself and comfortable in the role of a leader. You have a natural ability to create engagement and participation, and you lead with clarity, warmth, and direction. You pave the way for development and innovation while being receptive to employees' ideas and perspectives. You are driven by setting clear goals and use your solution-oriented ability to translate visions into action and create results. As the unit is a support function, we consider it important that you have the ability to create good and long-term collaborations. We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

We offer

An exciting role where you will lead a committed and responsible team. Together with us, you will continue to develop our important mission! We care about your well-being and thus offer flexible working hours, wellness benefits, and other advantageous offers through our employee association. As a manager in Trollhättan City, you will have access to various competence-enhancing initiatives in the form of management training, manager forums, and mentorship programs. Our managers also have access to a range of support functions within the administration and HR.

Employment information

Interviews are scheduled to take place in the morning on December 17 and 19.

Warm welcome with your application!

We kindly decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this advertisement!

Trollhättan is a strong and attractive municipality that is set to grow. Today we have about 59,000 residents, and we aim to grow to 70,000 Trollhättan residents. Within Trollhättan City, we are working to create the conditions for this. We are over 5,000 employees, and our 350 different professions contribute in various ways to providing service and facilitating a good everyday life for our residents – now and in the future. We see diversity as a strength that enriches our operations and welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds.

Trollhättan City applies a smoke-free working time policy.