Vacant job

With us, you will have the opportunity to lead a creative and interdisciplinary team where collaboration and development are a natural part of everyday life. We are looking for you who are engaged, want to drive development, and always keep the patient in focus while creating conditions for participation and good employee relations.

About the workplace

Resurscentrum för kommunikation Dako (Resource Centre for Communication Dako) is a county-wide operation that supports prescribers regarding questions about and trials of communication aids and control methods. Here, an interdisciplinary team consisting of occupational therapists, IT technicians, speech-language pathologists, and special educators works together. The operation has nine employees and has reception centers in Halmstad and Varberg.

Dako's operations also include prescribing alternative telephony to individuals who, due to hearing loss, deafness, or speech difficulties, cannot use a standard telephone. Here you will also find Datateket, where people with disabilities are given the opportunity to try out various apps and programs to stimulate and promote activity, communication, play, and learning.

About the job

As a manager at Region Halland, your task is to steer and lead with a focus on results, as well as to engage and motivate employees. You are the employer's representative and represent Region Halland, which means you have an understanding of the organization as a whole.

In the role of department manager, you report directly to the operations manager and are part of the operation's management group together with five colleagues. There, you work together to develop the entire operation forward. This requires collaboration and cooperation with other actors, both within and outside Region Halland.

In the work as department manager, you lead the unit towards set goals and are responsible for the unit's economy, personnel, and working environment. You have access to financial support, HR support, and managerial support from the administration. In your managerial role, you also have access to Region Halland's manager program, and we can offer you mentorship or other guidance and competence development.

The managerial assignment is combined with a role as operations developer for the Communication operations, which, in addition to Dako, include Hearing Habilitation, Hearing Clinic, Syncentralen, and the Interpreter Center.

You are employed in a permanent position in your core profession with an appointment as manager for four years.

Qualifications

We are looking for you with a relevant university degree or other education and experience that the employer considers equivalent. We would like you to have previous experience from healthcare and/or habilitation/rehabilitation. It is meritorious if you have previous managerial experience or have completed a leadership course, e.g., "Tomorrow's Leaders".

You have a good ability to create trusting relationships and can utilize employees' competence and engagement as a means to achieve the operation's goals. You create a sense of team by involving and motivating employees. You communicate clearly in a way that creates trust and participation. You see the positive aspects in change and improvement processes, which you have a desire to lead and participate in. As a manager, you are a role model, and your values align with Region Halland's value base. We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

For this position, you are required to have very good knowledge of the Swedish language. You should be able to formulate yourself well in both speech and writing and have experience in creating and converting facts and materials into text and presentations. A B-class driver's license is a requirement.

We warmly welcome your application!

Interviews will take place in Halmstad on August 24 and 26.

Our offer

For us, it is important that you thrive and develop in your work. Read more about what it is like to be a manager and the benefits we can offer you as an employee at Region Halland here.

About Region Halland

Region Halland is for everyone who lives and works here in Halland. We are over 8,000 employees within 370 different professions, all working to provide good healthcare and to promote growth and development. We are also responsible for public transport in Halland and handle issues in areas such as business, culture, and education. Our vision is "Halland – the best place to live," which means we want Halland to become the best place to live, study, work, and run a business. We have come a long way, and you are welcome to join us on our journey! Read more about Region Halland's organization, our mission, and our vision.

>The strive for gender equality, diversity, and equal conditions is both a quality issue and a clear part of Region Halland's value base.

Region Halland assigns all permanent staff to wartime duties.

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