Unit Manager for Home Care Services – Varberg Municipality

We are Varberg Municipality, the employer who sees the potential in you. Here, you can make a difference, both for others and for yourself. We are driven by the idea of simplifying people's daily lives and realizing their dreams. We achieve this through knowledge, innovative courage, and a forward-looking spirit. Welcome to contribute to our vision of becoming the creative hub of the west coast.

The Social Services Administration is responsible for providing support, care, and assistance to people at different stages of life. We work based on individual needs and offer interventions grounded in several laws, including the Social Services Act (SoL), the Act on Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments (LSS), and the Health and Medical Services Act.

This may involve providing older adults with a secure and meaningful daily life, supporting individuals with disabilities, or being there for children, young people, and adults in vulnerable life situations.

With us, you will meet every individual with respect and professionalism. We collaborate across professional boundaries – both within our own administration, with other parts of the municipality, and with external actors. To ensure quality and development, we actively work with follow-up, improvement efforts, and digitalization.

Here, you make a real difference – every day.

2 positions available.

Job Description

Do you want to lead and develop the home care services of the future?

As a Unit Manager within home care services, you play a central role in creating secure, high-quality, and sustainable care in people's own homes. You lead and engage employees, develop working methods, and contribute to ensuring that our elderly receive the support they need to live a dignified and independent life.

As a Unit Manager within home care services, you are responsible for operations, economy, personnel, and working environment. You lead the work with a focus on quality, accessibility, and user satisfaction, and work to ensure that home care resources are used efficiently and in a legally secure manner.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading, planning, and developing home care operations based on the municipality's goals, values, and guidelines.
• Being responsible for recruitment, induction, competence development, and working environment for employees.
• Ensuring quality and compliance in the delivery of approved interventions according to the Social Services Act (SoL).
• Having budget and follow-up responsibility for the unit.
• Working closely with employees, social secretaries, and other actors to create a holistic support for the user.
• Driving improvement and development work to increase efficiency, digitalization, and user focus.
• Participating in the administration's management group and contributing to joint strategic decisions.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who have a relevant university degree, for example in nursing, care, social work, or behavioral sciences. You have experience in leadership, preferably within home care or elderly care, and are accustomed to working with both personnel and budget responsibility.

You are confident in your leadership and create engagement and involvement among employees. You have good knowledge of the Social Services Act (SoL) and the requirements placed on quality, legal security, and documentation. As a person, you are structured, communicative, and have the ability to drive development and change in a sustainable way.

We also look for you to have:

• A university degree focused on healthcare, care, social work, or another equivalent education.
• Experience in leadership and personnel responsibility, preferably within home care.
• Knowledge of the Social Services Act (SoL) and other relevant regulations.
• Experience in operational management and economic responsibility.
• Good ability to express yourself in Swedish, both orally and in writing.

Do you want to lead an operation where quality, security, and treatment are at the center? As a Unit Manager within home care services, you will have the opportunity to develop the care of the future together with dedicated employees who make a difference every day.

Apply today!

Terms of Employment

• Salary: Monthly salary.
• Employment type: Permanent position.
• Start date: According to agreement (latest 2026-08-31).

To ensure your application works correctly in our recruitment system, we ask all applicants, including internal candidates, to use their private email address when applying.

Varberg Municipality welcomes diversity and sees differences as a strength. We hope that you, as an applicant, can contribute with your background and competence.

Welcome to read more about what it is like to work with us at: varberg.se/jobb (https://varberg.se/jobb-och-foretagande/jobb-praktik-och-ideellt-arbete/till-dig-som-ska-borja-hos-oss)

Before employment, you must be able to prove that you have the right to work in Sweden, for example through citizenship within the EU/EEA/Switzerland or a valid permit to reside and work here, or an exemption from this.

This position requires a driver's license for both manual and automatic transmission cars.