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Operational Leader - Meaningful Work for Vulnerable People

Statens Institutionsstyrelse

Skåne län, Lund

Previous experience is desired

24 days left
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Job Description

Do you want to make a vital difference for vulnerable people? Then the job as an operational leader is a meaningful role. In the role of operational leader, you are responsible for cross-institutional coordination and management of ongoing work outside office hours, in the evenings and nights, to promote a safe care and work environment. You guide and empower your colleagues in their work and ensure that the work is conducted legally and in accordance with applicable governing documents, methods, and set goals. Specifically, this means that you are responsible for incident management in emergency situations and take necessary actions after an incident occurs. You communicate noted deficiencies and deviations from routines to relevant managers. You establish and update risk assessments and make decisions on coercive measures according to LVU, LSU, and LVM in accordance with SiS work and delegation order.

Qualifications

To thrive and succeed in this role, we believe you are a stable person who remains calm even in stressful situations. You have the will and ability to act based on applicable decisions, guidelines, and policies. You have a holistic view and act in the best interest of the organization. Furthermore, you are structured in your work and have a good ability to plan and prioritize effectively.

You should also have:

  • Relevant higher education such as social worker, behavioral scientist, or other equivalent higher education, or at least a two-year vocational education (treatment pedagogue) combined with experience of work within SiS or similar operations.
  • Several years of experience working within SiS or another organization focused on care, treatment, and safety, such as social services, care and treatment, correctional services, or other relevant fields.
  • Good ability to lead, prioritize, and coordinate a workgroup.
  • Driver's license (B)
  • Particular emphasis will be placed on personal suitability

At SiS, we value good leadership. This means that as a manager and leader, you take responsibility for the whole, act as a good role model, drive development, promote good cooperation, and are clear in your communication. Read more about our leadership.

Employment:

Contact persons for trade unions
OFR/ST: Magnus Nilsson, 010-453 53 07
SACO-S: Nedzmi Alievski, 010-453 74 70
Seko: Shadi Shiek Khalil, 010-453 23 41

The position is a permanent full-time employment starting with a six-month probationary period. Start date according to agreement. Working hours are distributed across days, evenings, and nights.

SiS actively works against all forms of discrimination and welcomes all applicants.

For work at our institutions, SiS conducts background checks before employment.

In preparation for the recruitment process, the Swedish National Board of Institutional Care has made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing. Therefore, we firmly decline contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.

NOTE! If you have protected personal information, do not apply through the recruitment system. Instead, contact the person listed as the contact in the advertisement.

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