Unit Coordinator for Personal Assistance – Skövde Municipality

Personal assistance is a needs-assessed support service designed to enable individuals with disabilities to participate in society and live as independently as possible with the help of personal assistance. The activity is part of the Health and Care Sector at Skövde Municipality.

The Health and Care Sector has an important societal mission. We work with support, service, care, and assistance for people of all ages, and our operations are characterized by professionalism and human values.

Here we work together as a team. We help and support each other when needed. You are surrounded by high competence, experienced colleagues, and managers. In this role, you also receive so much back from those you are there for: smiles, gratitude, trust, laughter, friendship, and life stories – here you are always appreciated and significant.

To provide the best conditions for our users/patients to receive the best possible support and care, and for our employees to succeed and develop in their jobs, development work and continuous improvements are in focus for us. We want to be at the forefront of what we do.

As an employee here, you are important. We want you to develop and stay, which is why you receive ongoing training and competence development. If you wish, there are all opportunities to try different roles and pursue an internal career.

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Job Description

We are now looking for a Unit Coordinator for our Personal Assistance department!

As a Unit Coordinator, you work on behalf of the department managers, covering the entire department area but with a main focus on personal assistance.

On the department, we carry out interventions within personal assistance, short-term supervision, short-term stays, escort services, relief care, and contact persons.

In your assignment, you will be involved in and execute unit- and operation-related tasks that are necessary to achieve set goals. You are part of a working group with other unit coordinators.

Your main tasks are to relieve managers of personnel administrative work, such as staffing, absence management, scheduling, and other administrative tasks.

The role of Unit Coordinator includes contributing to the development of routines and guidelines that contribute to the unit's development and quality work.

Collaboration and cooperation are a large part of the role, where you will meet users, relatives, case workers, and other professions in the municipality.

You are a person who easily finds solutions to challenges. You have an easy time making new contacts and possess a good ability to create structure, planning, and follow-up of the operation's work. The role of Unit Coordinator includes contributing to and developing routines and guidelines that contribute to the unit's development and quality work.

Working hours are during daytime.

Qualifications

We are looking for you with relevant upper secondary education, post-secondary education, or other education that the employer deems equivalent. The applicant should have knowledge and good understanding of the area of operation, experience in administrative work, as well as experience with staffing issues and scheduling. A prerequisite for success in the role is that you have extensive experience working in various operational systems. Experience with work/scheduling in Medvind is meritorious.

As a person, you are service-oriented, and good collaboration within the operation is important to you. You also thrive with operational development as you have a good ability to see the big picture. You have good knowledge of the Swedish language, both spoken and written. To succeed in the role, we see that you are flexible, solution-focused, and have a very good ability to meet other people. You are initiative-taking and accustomed to working independently and in groups.

We place great emphasis on personal suitability and previous experience.

A driver's license is required.

Employment Terms

Type of employment: Permanent position.
Duration: Permanent, start date: By agreement.

At Skövde Municipality, we work with everything from care, support, and education to infrastructure, maintenance, cultural life, and growth. We have hundreds of professions and 5,500 employees.

Gender-equal, equitable, and inclusive operations are a matter of course for us.

As an employee at Skövde Municipality, you are an important player in a team that delivers services and support to our customers every day, all year round. It is in the meeting with our customers that the value of our work arises.

We invest in you as an employee and offer competence development, favorable pension conditions, fitness allowances, as well as several fitness activities and offers. And the best of all, we have room for more.

At Skövde Municipality, we have individual and differentiated salary setting. Information about salary intervals for positions:
https://www.skovde.se/jobba-hos-oss/skovde-kommun-som-arbetsgivare/lon-och-lonesattning/ (https://www.skovde.se/jobba-hos-oss/skovde-kommun-som-arbetsgivare/lon-och-lonesattning/)

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We are happy to receive calls from you who are interested in the job, but we decline calls from those who sell advertisements and recruitment services.

Read more about the Health and Care Sector:
https://www.skovde.se/kommun-och-politik/kommunens-organisation/tjanstepersonsorganisation/sektor-vard-och-omsorg/ (https://www.skovde.se/kommun-och-politik/kommunens-organisation/tjanstepersonsorganisation/sektor-vard-och-omsorg/)