Head of Preventive Services for the Elderly

In Upplands-Bro municipality, we are about 2000 employees working to provide our residents and visitors with the best possible service and experience of the municipality. With us, you are helping to build a municipality where a holistic view, engagement, and professionalism permeate the organization, and together we work to fulfill our common societal mission.

Do you want to lead and develop work that makes a real difference in people's lives?

As the head of preventive services for the elderly, you have an important mission: to strengthen health, independence, and quality of life for elderly residents – today and in the future.

The preventive unit has long worked to create an elder-friendly society and is an important part of the municipality's efforts to promote health and quality of life for the elderly. As the head of the preventive unit, you lead an engaged team that has had a strong focus on brain health since 2010 and works, among other things, according to the five-finger model, and is now considered to be at the forefront at the national level in the field of dementia.

The unit is tasked with developing and implementing health-promoting and preventive measures for the elderly throughout Upplands-Bro municipality. Through strategic work and close collaboration with various stakeholders, the unit contributes to ensuring that the elderly receive support, security, and the opportunity to live an active and meaningful life.

About the assignment:

As the head of preventive services for the elderly, you have a strategic and value-based assignment: to create conditions for a healthy, meaningful, and secure life as one ages, together with employees, partners, and elderly residents.

The assignment is based on knowledge of risk and protective factors, understanding of normal aging, and a strong focus on health-promoting and preventive measures. You lead the work towards the goal that more elderly individuals can maintain their function, independence, and quality of life throughout their lives. With the right support, aging can be safe, active, and meaningful – even though it looks different for each individual.

You lead the preventive unit for the elderly, which includes day activities focused on dementia, secure enhanced homecoming, which includes support measures during the transition from hospital stay to home. Preventive measures such as meeting point activities, technology and handyman services, volunteer activities, and vision and hearing support are also within the unit's area of responsibility.

Your main areas of responsibility:

• Operational responsibility: Plan, lead, and follow up on the work within the preventive unit to achieve set goals and develop the operations long-term.
• Finance and personnel: Responsible for budget, resource allocation, and personnel management, including competence development and work environment.
• Collaboration: Work closely with fellow managers and other operations within elderly care and other municipal operations, as well as establish and develop collaborations with external actors.
• Quality development: Ensure that the measures are characterized by high quality and that the operations are accessible and safe for the target group.

In the role, you are expected to be a driving leader who inspires employees, creates engagement, and contributes to an elder-friendly society. As a unit manager, you report directly to the department head and are part of the management group for the elderly and care department.

Your experience and competence

University education such as a degree in social work, or other education combined with work experience that the employer deems equivalent. Experience working as a leader and with personnel, work environment, and operational responsibility along with budget responsibility. Experience working in politically governed operations. Good ability to communicate in Swedish, both orally and in writing.

We place great importance on your personal qualities in all our management recruitments. As a person, you are a clear and stable leader who is good at providing employees with the right conditions to succeed in their assignments. You do this through close and present leadership and by being available to employees. You are also results-oriented, have the ability to see the big picture, and are flexible and adaptable when circumstances change. As a unit manager, you have many different contact points, so you need to be good at collaborating, establishing relationships, and communicating clearly.

We offer you:

As an employee in Upplands-Bro municipality, you have several excellent employment benefits, such as wellness grants, extended parental leave, and good insurance coverage. Read more about the municipality as an employer here (https://www.upplands-bro.se/arbete-och-lediga-jobb/upplands-bro-som-arbetsgivare.html).

Our workplace is centrally located in Kungsängen, just a two-minute walk from commuter trains, buses, and general services, and about 30 minutes from Stockholm C. The role does not only involve work from Kungsängen, but you are expected to be active throughout the municipality where the unit conducts its various operations. As an employee, you will benefit from the advantages of a smaller municipality, where short decision-making paths and close collaboration with colleagues create good conditions for participation in the municipality's and social services' development.

We also offer a fun and developing assignment in an exciting growth municipality with competent and engaged colleagues and a strong sense of community. The department has a strong commitment to elderly issues and is, for example, star-rated and works with HBTQI certification. If you are passionate about elderly issues, you will enjoy working in a municipality that is approved by WHO as an elder-friendly municipality.

About the recruitment process:

We look forward to receiving your application with a CV but without a cover letter. Collaboration is an important part of our management appointments, and final candidates are offered the opportunity to meet the union representatives who represent the employees of the operation.

A background check on the final candidate will be conducted before an offer of employment is made.

Welcome with your application by February 15, 2026.

In Upplands-Bro, we strive for dignified aging, where the individual's needs are prioritized. Elderly care is about providing opportunities for independence and choice in housing and care. We set high standards for quality and continuous follow-up to ensure an elder-friendly and dignified environment.

Upplands-Bro municipality is one of Sweden's most expansive municipalities where development is at the center. We welcome you to a workplace where the guiding principles in our work and approach are Holistic View, Engagement, and Professionalism.