Swedish Prison and Probation Service is Growing – We Are Hiring

The Swedish Prison and Probation Service is growing – we are building new facilities, renovating, and expanding, and we are now looking for more employees. Our most important goal is to reduce recidivism – to break the vicious cycle. If we succeed, society will be safer and more secure for everyone. We are the authority responsible for prisons, probation, detention centers, and client transports.

Read more about the operations of Gothenburg Detention Center on our website: Gothenburg Detention Center (https://www.kriminalvarden.se/kontakt/hitta-till-oss/verksamhet/hakte/goteborg/#verksamhet)

Gothenburg Detention Center is one of Sweden's five secure detention centers located in the Swedish Prison and Probation Service's building in central Gothenburg. Gothenburg Detention Center has space for about 350 clients. At Gothenburg Detention Center, we employ correctional officers, psychologists, nurses, administrators, and intelligence operators. In total, we are about 300 employees who work daily with the important mission of the Swedish Prison and Probation Service and to break the vicious cycle.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Are you looking for a new job? Do you want to be part of the justice chain? Do you have the ability to maintain order and security? Are you socially interested and curious about meeting people in a challenging yet exciting environment? Then we have the job for you.

Gothenburg Detention Center is one of five secure detention centers in Sweden. As a correctional officer, you are the foundation of the security work. You work in teams with others to maintain a safe and secure environment and motivate clients towards a life without crime. Structure and clear routines are a natural part of your daily work. You have daily contact with clients, conduct conversations, and are involved in the clients' processes during their detention period. Your work includes documenting and following up on client cases. As a correctional officer, you are the one who opens the door in the morning and locks it in the evening. You are responsible for searching and supervising clients and areas. There are good opportunities for development and specialization in the role depending on your interests.

If you have an interest and aptitude for technology and computers, there is also a need for staff in the detention center's monitoring center. Here we need you to be able to focus on multiple things at once and handle unforeseen events well. You primarily work to monitor operations, manage alarms, and communicate with staff in various parts of the detention center.

Our most important goal is to help our clients break patterns and thus reduce the risk of recidivism. If we succeed, society will be safer and more secure for everyone. We are the authority responsible for prisons, probation, detention centers, and client transports. Working in a detention center means focusing on care and security based on clear routines. Some people are detained for long periods and only meet their lawyer and those who work at the detention center. This places special demands on you as a correctional officer to be professional and interested in meeting people.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone who is secure, stable, and has good self-awareness. You need to have good collaboration skills and be clear in your communication. Regardless of your previous profession, you may be interesting to us as we seek employees with different backgrounds and experiences. In your professional practice, integrity is required, and you need to be able to distinguish between personal and private communication. The job requires you to express yourself well in both speech and writing in Swedish. You need to be able to act physically if the situation requires it. We place great importance on personal suitability.

For placement in the monitoring center, we are looking for someone who is resilient to stress and can handle multiple cases simultaneously. You have a good overview of events and remain calm in stressful situations. It helps if you have a good sense of direction and are solution-focused. You need to have normal color vision.

We are looking for someone who has:

• Work experience, including seasonal work, part-time employment, or self-employment. Internships and volunteer work are not considered equivalent to employment.
• Completed high school education or other education combined with work experience that the Swedish Prison and Probation Service deems relevant.
• Good knowledge of the Swedish language in both speech and writing.
• Good computer skills.

It is an advantage if you have:

• Work experience from correctional services, security work, social care, psychiatry, or health and care work.
• High school education.
• Education in relevant fields, such as behavioral science, criminology, psychiatry, law, and conflict management or other relevant areas.
• Other language skills besides Swedish.

We see that you share the Swedish Prison and Probation Service's fundamental values of a humane view of people, respect for the individual, and belief in the human will and ability to develop. As well as an awareness of and understanding of how background, culture, and group affiliation affect oneself and others.

OTHER

We place high demands on our employees' security and confidentiality awareness. A security check will precede the decision on employment. Certain positions are placed in a security class, and a security review with a background check will be conducted before a decision on employment is made. For positions with a higher security class, you must be a Swedish citizen but may have a foreign background. Read more about the security review at: Security Review (https://www.kriminalvarden.se/jobba-hos-oss/rekryteringsprocessen/sakerhetsprovning-vid-rekrytering/)

The position may involve military placement at the Swedish Prison and Probation Service. Read more about military placement at: Military Placement (https://www.kriminalvarden.se/jobba-hos-oss/rekryteringsprocessen/krigsplacering/)

In this recruitment, continuous selection is applied, which means that interviews may begin during the application period. We will invite selected candidates to information meetings; a separate invitation will be sent.

Probationary employment may be applied.

The Swedish Prison and Probation Service strives for a balanced gender distribution and increased diversity.

To submit your application, click on the application link in the ad. Questions about how to apply and submit your CV should be directed to Visma Recruit. Questions about specific jobs will be answered by the contact person specified in the ad.

We kindly but firmly request no direct contact with staffing and recruitment companies or sellers of recruitment ads. The Swedish Prison and Probation Service has contracted agreements.