Unit Manager

Would you like to lead a children's home and help build a new, school-oriented and high-quality child protection service? Go Strong’s Siikajärvi children’s home opens a leadership role that combines daily care leadership with active service development. We are developing specialized shelter care and preparing to launch a new demanding psychosocial support unit. The role emphasizes multi-disciplinary teamwork, school-oriented and rehabilitative everyday life, animal-assisted activities, and use of the StrongApp digital system. As the director, you will be responsible for operational leadership of the unit, care and upbringing work in collaboration with the team and the supervising supervisor, ensuring quality and development of specialized services, launching and building new psychosocial support work, HR leadership of staff, self-monitoring, quality and customer processes, and financial and operational management. You will oversee customer relationships and collaboration with wellbeing services, support school-oriented and rehabilitative daily life, utilize StrongApp in leadership of work and activities, and cooperate with networks of youths and their families, schools and other partners. You will be supported by Go Strong’s multidisciplinary structures and other management. The unit director also participates in Go Strong’s shared leadership and development of the group’s homes. What we expect: you will act as the responsible manager under child welfare law section 60, requires a suitable university degree, field knowledge and adequate leadership skills. You should have experience in child welfare substitute care, ability to lead staff clearly, calmly and purposefully, understanding the needs of youths with challenging symptoms, interest in school-oriented, rehabilitative work with families, responsibility and ability to handle everyday details, development-minded and practical approach, strong collaboration and communication skills, and good Finnish speaking and writing skills. Desirable: experience in supervisory roles, demanding child welfare, youth psychiatry interface or neuropsychiatric work, finance or business responsibility or use of digital tools. We offer: a full-time, permanent leadership role; the opportunity to build and start a demanding-level child protection service; a strong, multidisciplinary organization with support from other leaders; genuine possibility to influence service content and methods; ongoing training; wellbeing, sport and culture benefits and accident insurance; a nature-friendly environment near Nuuksio. Start date by agreement. The role requires a criminal background check for working with children and may include pharmacological testing where required by law. Interested? Send a free-form application and CV. Include in your application what leadership you want to build and what attracts you to high-level and demanding child protection service development. For more information contact: Veli-Matti Karhu, Siikajärvi children’s home director, tel. +358408447591, veli-matti.karhu@gostrong.fi; Martti Volotinen, CEO Go Strong Oy, tel. +35844775577, martti.volotinen@gostrong.fi. Interviews start after 31 August; suitability assessment may be used. See a video to learn how life in Siikajärvi looks. Go Strong Oy produces modern and high-quality child protection services, supporting children and youths in their everyday lives from their strengths. Our values are positivity, responsibility and determination.

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