Deputy Unit Manager for Åkershem, Borlänge

Welcome to Åkershem, a special housing facility with 80 dementia care beds located in Kvarnsveden, Borlänge Municipality. Here, nurses, nursing assistants, care aides, as well as staff from catering and facilities, work together. The facility also hosts a day activity center that assists with peripheral tasks such as the kitchen and storage, contributing to a well-functioning daily routine.

We work actively with quality development and strive to continuously improve our working methods to meet future needs within elderly care. As a leader with us, you will become an important part of the development work and in creating a good work environment where employees thrive and develop.

Borlänge Municipality has a common platform and value base that permeates the operations, and as a leader, you act with this value base as your guiding star:

• I am here for the residents of Borlänge
• I enjoy challenges
• I meet every person with openness

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Job Responsibilities

As the Deputy Unit Manager at Åkershem, you are responsible for the ongoing operations of the unit. Together with the Unit Manager, you are responsible for personnel, economy, and operations. The overarching strategic responsibility for the operations lies with the Unit Manager.

You are involved in the planning, follow-up, and development of the operations and contribute to ensuring that the operations are conducted with good quality, efficiency, and in accordance with current legislation and guidelines.

Your duties include mentoring nursing staff and group leaders in their daily work using a coaching approach.

Another important task is to develop working methods and routines to ensure good quality in the care and support we offer to the residents of Borlänge. The position involves significant communication with both internal and external stakeholders.

Qualifications

Basic requirements for the position:

• Started or completed higher education in a field that the employer deems relevant for the position
• Experience of working in care and support or healthcare
• Experience of working in a leadership role, e.g., as a group leader, unit manager, or similar
• Very good knowledge of Swedish, both orally and in writing

Personal qualities:

We are looking for you who are a secure and responsive leader and who have the ability to build trusting relationships. In your leadership, you create engagement and involvement by showing genuine interest and listening to the organization's needs. Your communication skills are one of your strengths, where you are clear and communicate in a simple and open manner. You find it easy to collaborate and remain steady even in challenging situations. In your work, you have a good ability to plan both short-term and long-term, work structurally, and follow up on processes. We also want you to have an interest in driving change and development to lead the operations forward.

Meritorious qualifications:

• Completed Borlänge Municipality's aspirant program or other leadership training
• Experience with the activity systems Lifecare and/or Heroma
• Experience with dementia care and/or elderly care

Salary: Monthly salary.
Employment type: Permanent position.
Duration: Permanent.
Working hours: Daytime.

Borlänge Municipality applies a competence-based recruitment method, and you will be asked to answer selection questions when you submit your application. The questions are based on the qualifications for the position, and the answers form the basis for the first selection. As part of the selection process, we also use tests in this recruitment.

To obtain employment, you must provide a certificate of no criminal record, which will be requested if employment becomes relevant. We recommend ordering this in connection with the application so that it is available if you become a candidate for the position. You can order the certificate directly from the police website.

In connection with the interview, you as a candidate must provide proof of citizenship in Sweden/EU/EES or a valid work and residence permit.

To ensure quality in the recruitment process in Borlänge Municipality and to enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally via the link and not in any other way.

For you with protected personal data, we offer an extra protected application procedure. Contact the recruiting manager before you submit your application, so we ensure that your data is handled in a secure and correct manner according to current routines.

We look forward to receiving your application!

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