Family Therapist at SiS Youth Home Tysslinge

The Swedish National Board of Institutional Care, SiS, is an authority responsible for individually adapted compulsory care for young people with complex psychosocial issues and for adults with substance abuse. SiS also implements closed youth care. We do this in youth homes and homes for adults with substance abuse throughout the country. Working with us at SiS will be an exciting challenge. Regardless of where you work in our organization or what position you hold, you help create life-changing transformations.

SiS Youth Home Tysslinge, located outside Södertälje, receives non-compulsory school-age boys with psychosocial issues, as well as criminal behavior and substance abuse.

Job Description

We are now looking for family therapists to work with families and networks of placed youth aged 16–21 years. The tasks may include family therapeutic interventions, psychoeducational efforts, and parent training aimed at developing parents' ability to adapt their parenting to the youth's needs outlined in the treatment plan. Working closely with the youth and other staff at the institution to create interest and motivation for participation in family therapy interventions is an important part of your job.

The work is conducted in a team that includes psychologists, treatment secretaries, group leaders, nurses, and teachers. You will have the opportunity to largely shape and plan your working hours. It is required that you are flexible and find solutions to carry out your work under the conditions that prevail in a locked environment with high security.

Direct support will be available from the authority's headquarters as several people will be hired at other institutions with similar conditions. Supervision and opportunities for further education are included as a natural part.

Since this position has not previously existed at SiS Youth Home Tysslinge or at an institution in security class 1, you will take significant responsibility for implementing the position at the institution together with the manager and colleagues. The work and role need to be designed to function and be adapted based on the conditions that apply at SiS's highest security level.

About the Workplace

SiS Youth Home Tysslinge is an institution in the highest security class that receives youth with high risks of threats, violence, and absconding. The institution has a total of six departments, where two of the departments receive youth sentenced under the Act on Closed Youth Care (LSU), three departments receive youth under the Care of Young Persons Act (LVU), and one department receives youth who are cared for in isolation (VIE).

You will be placed in our newly built administrative office where you will sit in an open office landscape together with managers, security functions, HR, staffing, administrators, psychologists, and nurses.

As a new employee, you will undergo SiS's basic training to prepare you for your new role in SiS's operations.

Benefits

As a state employee with us, you receive several benefits, for example, you have more vacation days than the 25 days stipulated in the vacation law:

• 28 vacation days until the year you turn 29
• 31 vacation days from the year you turn 30
• 35 vacation days from the year you turn 40

You also receive a wellness grant each year to use for training or other wellness activities that suit you, some reimbursement for medical visits and medications covered by the high-cost protection, and the opportunity to make medical visits during paid working hours. Please read more about our benefits at: https://www.stat-inst.se/jobba-hos-oss/formaner/ (https://www.stat-inst.se/jobba-hos-oss/formaner/)

Qualifications

You should have:

• A degree of 180 credits in social or behavioral sciences, or equivalent education that the employer assesses as equivalent.
• Experience working with youth or families in vulnerable situations.

It is meritorious if you have:

• Step 1 training in psychotherapy with a focus on family or cognitive behavioral therapy
• Experience in family/network work under supervision
• Experience working with manual-based, structured treatment programs

Your personal suitability is key to life-changing transformation. You have a positive view of people, and your drive is to work with individuals in vulnerable situations. You share SiS's core values of being a place for change, and your approach and attitude are permeated by our guiding principles of Respect, Care, and Clarity.

It is required that you have a high level of personal maturity, the ability to instill trust, and can create alliances with the placed youth and their families/networks, that you have good collaboration skills, are pedagogical, and can act as a role model in parent training programs.

You have the ability to take initiative, drive development, and independently plan your work as this is a newly established position.

Great emphasis is placed on personal suitability.

At SiS, we care about good employee relations. This means that you, as an employee, take responsibility for your work, contribute to development, and participate in good collaboration. Read more about our employee relations.

Employment:

The position is a permanent full-time employment that begins with a six-month probationary period.

Start date: By agreement.

Extent: Full-time

Working hours: Office working hours, flexible working hours agreement applies.

Number of positions: 2

Application:

Welcome to register your application in our recruitment tool by April 6, 2025.

SiS actively works against all forms of discrimination and welcomes all applicants.

For work at our institutions, SiS conducts background checks before employment.

In preparation for the recruitment process, the Swedish National Board of Institutional Care has taken a position on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore kindly ask for no contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.

Note! If you have protected personal information, do not apply through the recruitment system. Instead, contact the person listed as the contact person in the advertisement.