Development Leader for the Social Office in Strängnäs Municipality

Do you want to help shape the future of care and support? The Social Office in Strängnäs Municipality is now looking for a development leader who wants to take a strategic and cohesive responsibility for the transition to good and close care. The assignment is central to the office's long-term development and is about creating real change – from words to action.

Strängnäs Municipality actively participates in the joint effort for Close Care in Sörmland. The work is based on the regional vision and roadmap developed in collaboration between the municipalities in the county and Region Sörmland. As a development leader, you will be an important link in translating these regional strategies into concrete benefits for the residents of Strängnäs.

The Social Office consists of four areas of operation: elderly care, support for people with disabilities, individual and family care, and health and medical care, which are supported by the administration and digitalization department. You belong to Administration and Digitalization, but your assignment is cross-office and spans all operations in close collaboration with the region and other actors.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

The assignment is strategic and is about ensuring that decisions about Close Care are implemented in practice. The focus is on moving from decisions and plans to real change, so that the residents of Strängnäs Municipality experience a closer, more cohesive, and person-centered care and support.

You are a driving force in the change work and strengthen the internal and external structures required for the transition to succeed. The assignment does not involve operational implementation responsibility in the operations but is about creating clear conditions for managers and operations to implement the change. The assignment involves close collaboration with the development leader for the transition to the new Social Services Act, as well as with operational developers, MAS, SAS, and other key resources in the operations, to ensure coordinated and sustainable long-term implementation.

Your role includes:

• Ensuring impact: Responsible for ensuring that the vision for Close Care is translated into concrete operational development through strategic coordination, follow-up, and requirements for how decided goals and commitments are integrated into the operations.
• Strategic direction and prioritization: Responsible for the Social Office's overall work with Close Care, which includes highlighting goal conflicts, identifying development needs, and proposing necessary choices.
• Creating strategic conditions: Support managers and operations by establishing clear frameworks, common working methods, and follow-up structures that enable the shift from reactive to proactive, health-promoting, and person-centered working methods.
• Analysis, follow-up, and reporting: Systematically follow up, analyze, and assess goals, results, and effects, and prepare materials for governance and reporting to management and political committees.
• Long-term collaboration and representation: Ensure appropriate structures for internal and external collaboration, and represent Strängnäs Municipality in regional networks and working groups within the framework of Close Care in Sörmland.

Travel may occur in the position.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone who has:

• A university degree that the employer assesses as relevant to the assignment.
• Good knowledge of legislation in health and medical care and social services.
• Documented experience of strategic development or change work.
• Experience of collaboration between municipalities and regions.
• Very good ability to express yourself in Swedish, both orally and in writing.
• Good IT skills.
• Driver's license B.

We consider it an advantage if you have:

• experience of leading development work within municipal or regional health and medical care.
• training in change work and methods, e.g., service design.
• knowledge of systems thinking, person-centered approaches, trust-based management and governance, team-based and interdisciplinary working methods.

As the purpose of the assignment is to drive change work forward in collaboration with others, high demands are placed on good collaboration skills. Your ability to engage people, create consensus and participation in change processes is clear, and you work systematically, keeping a broad perspective and viewing issues from a holistic perspective. We also believe that you are a person who, through your experience, is confident in yourself, takes initiative, and has the ability to independently plan your own work. We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

Welcome to submit your application today!

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Welcome to Strängnäs Municipality! Strängnäs Municipality has over 39,000 residents and is strategically located in Mälardalen with excellent communication opportunities. Here, it is close to the big city of Stockholm, which can be reached by train in under 50 minutes, and even closer is Eskilstuna. Our municipality is an attractive place for both living and working, where you have the opportunity to make a real difference for society and its residents.

With us, there are many meaningful and challenging tasks, with opportunities to grow and develop in your professional role. In Strängnäs Municipality, over 2,500 knowledgeable and engaged employees work, all contributing to creating a positive everyday life for the residents. We value a workplace where everyone feels included and where there is room to influence.

We actively work based on a value base characterized by respect, openness, development, and clarity. We see in our annual employee survey that our employees are satisfied. We hope you want to be part of our team and together with us build the future of Strängnäs. Together we create a stronger municipality and make each other better.

Strängnäs Municipality applies smoke-free working hours to create a healthy work environment for all employees, colleagues, and users.

Application Process and Personal Data Management:

• As an applicant, you are responsible for clearly documenting your qualifications so that we can make an objective and fair assessment of your application.
• When working with children and young people, an extract from the police's criminal record is required before employment.
• Strängnäs Municipality handles your personal data in accordance with applicable legislation. You can read more about our personal data management on our website: link (https://www.strangnas.se/kommun-och-politik/overklaga-beslut-rattssakerhet/personuppgifter-i-strangnas-kommun).

Strängnäs Municipality has chosen media channels for this recruitment and therefore requests no contact with ad sellers and recruitment services.

We look forward to learning more about you and how you want to contribute to the future of Strängnäs.