Unit Manager for Municipal Rehabilitation – Lead the Future of Care

Do you want to lead rehabilitation activities that make a real difference for the residents of Borlänge – every day?

Borlänge Municipality is now seeking a Unit Manager for Municipal Rehabilitation who wants to develop and strengthen the future of rehabilitation work together with dedicated employees and fellow managers.

Your Role in the Change Process

As a Unit Manager, you will become an important part of the ongoing change process. You will have the opportunity to contribute new perspectives and develop future ways of working within municipal healthcare and rehabilitation, together with qualified and engaged colleagues. You will play a central role in developing collaboration with other operations, creating clear direction, and supporting employees. Together, you will contribute to a good and sustainable work climate.

To give you the best conditions for succeeding in your leadership and assignment, you will participate in Borlänge Municipality's leadership development program. In addition, you are offered internal training in working environment, rehabilitation, and recruitment. In your assignment, you have support from experienced and competent colleagues within the healthcare operations, as well as support functions within HR, IT, and finance.

Our Values

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

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

About the Care Administration

The Care Administration is the municipality's largest administration and is responsible for providing residents of Borlänge with good care, support, and service. The administration works on behalf of the Care Committee and is responsible for operations within elderly care and LSS (Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments).

The operations are now facing an exciting development process with a focus on sustainability, collaboration, and new ways of working, where you will play an important role in driving the work forward towards improved quality.

The rehabilitation operations are currently organized into three groups: Municipal Rehabilitation, Borlänge Rehabilitation, and Education and Competence. Municipal Rehabilitation is responsible for the municipality's special housing, LSS housing (group and service apartments), and housing within social psychiatry. Borlänge Rehabilitation is responsible for ordinary housing, short-term housing, and exchange housing. The Education and Competence group is responsible for transfer training and also includes the municipality's vision and hearing instructors.

Responsibilities

As a Unit Manager, you are part of the HS Leadership Group together with two other HS Unit Managers, as well as specialist functions such as MAR, MAS, developers, and method support, organized under the HS Operations Manager.

In the role, you have personnel responsibility for approximately 37 employees: occupational therapists, physiotherapists/sports therapists, and rehabilitation assistants, as well as one administrator.

You have personnel and budget responsibility for the rehabilitation unit. The assignment also includes overall responsibility for patient safety and contributing to the whole within the healthcare operations area.

The assignment includes leading, developing, and following up on operations with a focus on quality, collaboration, and sustainable working methods. You work actively with change, improvement, and development work to meet the needs of the operations and the future.

Qualifications and Merits

Basic requirements for the position:

• Licensure as an occupational therapist, physiotherapist/sports therapist
• Many years of experience in clinical work as a licensed professional within rehabilitation
• Experience in leadership, preferably from assignments as a Unit Manager or another equivalent leading role
• Very good knowledge of Swedish in speech and writing
• Category B driver's license

Personal qualities:

We are looking for you who are a secure and stable leader with a present, open, clear, and communicative leadership style. You have the ability to create trust and are successful in your leadership by being responsive and listening to the competence and needs of your employees.

An important part of the assignment is to create good conditions for employees to thrive, develop, and perform their work with high quality. Through coaching leadership and a transparent approach, you promote participation, engagement, and collaboration.

In your work, you are solution-focused with the ability to work independently, and you stand firm and are loyal in decisions made. You look at the big picture in prioritization and decisions, and you drive development processes forward with engagement by promoting collaboration and a positive work environment where people can grow and succeed together.

Meritorious qualifications:

• Experience in a role that included personnel, working environment, and budget responsibility
• Experience in operations development and change work
• Experience working in a politically governed organization

What We Offer

• Salary form: Monthly salary
• Employment type: Permanent employment
• Duration: Permanent
• Working hours: Daytime

How to Apply

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 good conduct (extract from the 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 relevant for the position. You order the extract directly from the police website.

In connection with the interview, you as a candidate need to 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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