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Welcome to the Care and Elderly Care Administration. We provide support and care to elderly people and persons with disabilities. Our goal is for them to be able to live as active and independent a life as possible.

The Care and Elderly Care Administration is one of Sweden's largest employers within municipal care and elderly care. Around 7,500 employees work here based on our core values – making a difference, working together, and welcoming innovation. Here, you have great opportunities to take personal responsibility, develop, and contribute your skills. We strive for an organizational culture characterized by mutual trust and pride in the operations.

For more information on what it is like to work in Uppsala Municipality, visit https://www.uppsala.se/jobb/vard-halsa-omsorg/ (https://www.uppsala.se/jobb/vard-halsa-omsorg/)

Within the Care and Elderly Care Administration, full-time work is the norm. This means that all permanent employees are fundamentally employed on a full-time basis. More information about what this entails for this position will be provided during a potential interview. Personal assistants are exempt from the full-time norm.

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You are now given the opportunity to participate in important change work where evidence-based follow-up and quality assurance are in focus. Here, you will contribute to developing future care and elderly care in Uppsala Municipality. We warmly welcome your application!

The Contracts and Follow-up Unit is part of the Care and Elderly Care Administration's support staff. We are in an exciting development phase where data-driven follow-up and improvement work are at the center. The unit is characterized by high competence, collegial support, and a shared focus on improving the conditions for operations. We work both on-site in the City Hall and digitally and activity-based, with opportunities for a flexible daily routine. The City Hall is located in an optimal commuting location, a stone's throw from Uppsala Central Station.

During the coming years, the Care and Elderly Care Administration will establish a unified approach to follow-up, with varying follow-up methods integrated into the administration's other steering, to increase the ability to work evidence-based and direct follow-up measures based on identified risks.

Description of duties
As a strategist, you work both as a civil servant in the office and in outreach work within the board's operations, both in public and private sectors. As support in your work, you have your closest colleagues in the unit and the unit manager, as well as other experts within the municipality. The Contracts and Follow-up Unit is part of the Care and Elderly Care Administration's support staff. The unit performs follow-up of publicly and privately operated activities within the responsibility areas of both the Elderly Affairs Board and the Care Affairs Board.

The unit also prepares materials for the responsible boards and the administration, including drafting task descriptions for activities in-house, conducting procurement for operations, needs and target group analyses for forecasting, and investigations based on expertise. The emphasis in the work lies in creating conditions for long-term planning to meet the needs of target groups, as well as monitoring development and compliance in the operations conducted.

Qualifications
We are looking for you who have:

• an academic degree in areas such as social law, care, social sciences, law, or economics
• experience working with follow-up in public operations, preferably within care and elderly care
• the ability to express yourself well in Swedish, both orally and in writing.

It is meritorious if you have:

• experience with special housing forms, primarily special housing for the elderly
• experience with target group, stakeholder, or needs analyses within social services (including the Support and Service Act for Certain Persons with Disabilities - LSS)
• experience with non-benefit decisions, also known as open interventions, and support for relatives.
• experience with operational management, for example, unit manager responsible for daily operations

As a person, you are outgoing and socially active in professional contexts. Your ability to build networks is an important part of your working style and contributes to long-term collaborations. With strategic thinking and a broad perspective on issues, you easily see the bigger picture. You weigh in long-term consequences in your choices and adapt your actions accordingly, making you a valuable resource in planning and development. You work in a structured and efficient manner, with good ability to plan, organize, and prioritize tasks.

It is a great advantage if you can handle complex issues and have an analytical ability to break down problems and find solutions even in complicated challenges.

Information
If you have questions about the position or the recruitment process, contact: Fredrik Linde, Unit Manager, 018-726 3650.

Union representatives:
Academic Professionals Association SSR, Camilla Ahlsén Hoff, 018-727 24 34
Vision, Karin Lundborg, 018-727 51 52

If you have questions regarding the registration of your application, contact the competence supply unit: 018-726 3719.

We will request extracts from the criminal record register before employment can be offered.

Uppsala Municipality applies individual and differentiated salary setting according to the current collective agreement.

In your application, you must state your citizenship. If you are not a citizen of Sweden, the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, you must also be able to prove that you have a valid work permit or are exempt from the requirement to have a work permit. Employment can only take place after verification of the work permit, as required by the Aliens Ordinance.

Employment with Uppsala Municipality may involve being placed on the war establishment.

Salary type: Monthly salary.
Employment type: Permanent employment.
Duration: Permanent, start date: As agreed.