Vacant job

We are now looking for two group managers for the preventive and outpatient unit, one responsible for children and youth and one for adults. Do you want to help develop the social support of the future in Nynäshamn Municipality? Do you want to have a real impact on operations, work closely with engaged employees, and contribute to creating support measures that make a difference for the residents? Then we need you. Welcome to our fantastic team!

The unit belongs to the Social Support Department within the Social Services Administration. Here, promotional, preventive, and open interventions for residents in various life situations are gathered. With the new social services legislation, we have great opportunities to develop working methods, interventions, and collaboration moving forward.

Job Responsibilities

As a group manager, you lead, plan, and distribute the operational work within your group. You support employees in their daily work, ensure quality, and monitor that operations are conducted in accordance with legislation, guidelines, budget, and policies. You have personnel responsibility and conduct, among other things, employee and salary interviews, as well as handle personnel matters in close cooperation with the unit manager. You also have some responsibility for the work environment.

An important part of the role is to drive development and change. You contribute to translating strategic goals into practice, developing working methods, and creating conditions for a sustainable, learning, and attractive work environment.

You will work in close co-leadership together with your fellow group manager. Co-leadership provides good opportunities for support, shared responsibility, and exchange of experience in everyday life. It creates better conditions for reflection, development, and sustainable decisions while you together drive operations forward.

The role of group manager is both developmental and varied. You get the opportunity to have a real impact on operations, work closely with engaged employees, and contribute to creating support measures that make a difference for the residents. No day is like the other, and you get to combine leadership, development work, and collaboration in a meaningful assignment.

Our Two Groups

Children and Youth: You are responsible for employees within, among others, family centers, family therapists, field secretaries, Mini-Maria, and school social workers. The assignment involves close collaboration with, for example, schools, police, leisure activities, authority enforcement, and other internal and external actors.

Adults: You are responsible for employees within, among others, therapists, next-of-kin coordinators, elderly and disability lotes, safety wardens, meeting points, and SKKP. The assignment involves close collaboration with, for example, healthcare, probation services, authority enforcement, and other internal and external actors.

State in your application which of the groups you are applying for. It is also fine to state if you are interested in both positions.

About the Workplace

The Social Services Administration's assignment is to offer individualized support and services in areas such as elderly care, disability, children and family, adult support, and economic assistance. The operations serve as support for the municipality's residents throughout their lives.

The unit for preventive work and outpatient care belongs to the Social Support Department within the Social Services Administration and is responsible for the open interventions offered to residents.

The work includes both preventive interventions and need-assessed support directed at children, young people, and their families. Within the unit, support is also provided to adults based on different needs.

What We Are Looking For in You

To succeed in the role, you have:

• a degree in social work or another academic education that the employer considers equivalent
• managerial or leadership experience
• at least three years of documented experience working within social services
• knowledge of current legislation
• basic computer skills
• good ability to express yourself in Swedish, both orally and in writing
• Class B driver's license

For the position focusing on children and youth, experience working within the social services' children and youth sector is particularly relevant. For the position focusing on adults, experience working within social services directed at adults is particularly relevant.

It is meritorious if you have experience of outpatient care, psychosocial work, supervisory functions, LifeCare, follow-up and evaluation of interventions, local evidence, change management, ORS-SRS, Signs of Safety, family therapy, or therapy directed at adults.

Personal Qualities We Are Looking For

To succeed in the role, you need to have good collaboration skills and be able to create trusting relationships both internally and externally. You are stable and maintain calm and focus even in pressured situations. You are self-reliant, take responsibility for your assignment, and drive processes forward.

We are also looking for you who are proactive, clear in your communication, and have a holistic view. You can create structure, clarify expectations, and contribute to development both in your own group and in the unit as a whole.

Great importance will be attached to personal suitability. An extract from the criminal record is a requirement for employment for both positions.

What We Offer You

With us, you get a meaningful assignment where you help develop support that makes a difference for the residents of Nynäshamn. You have close access to managers and colleagues, the opportunity to influence, and to be part of a new department in development.

As a group manager, you are offered external group manager guidance together with the other group managers in the administration. You also receive internal manager training and the opportunity to participate in the municipality's overarching initiative on UGL – development of group and leader.

We offer, among other things, paid holiday days, flexible hours, shorter working hours during the summer, the possibility of remote work, free access to a gym or wellness allowance. You can also take part in the municipality's active employee association with activities and the opportunity to rent cabins in the mountains and archipelago.

Our Recruitment Process

We apply continuous selection and use a competency-based recruitment method for a fair and objective assessment. Diversity is an asset, and we welcome all applicants. As part of the recruitment process, work psychological tests may be conducted. Probationary employment may be applied.

We look forward to your application and hope you want to become part of our team!

Information about the position

Start date: according to agreement

Employment type: Permanent

Employment level: Full-time

Number of vacant positions: 2