Group Leader at SiS Youth Home Bergsmansgården

The Swedish National Board of Institutional Care, SiS, is an authority responsible for individually adapted compulsory care for children and adolescents and adults with substance abuse. We do this at youth homes and homes for adults with substance abuse across the country. With us, your work life becomes a meaningful and exciting challenge. No matter where in our organization you work or what position you hold, you help create life-changing transformations.

SiS Youth Home Bergsmansgården will expand in 2025 and is now in the starting blocks to open a new satellite unit for non-compulsory school girls at Granhult near Ramsberg in Lindesberg municipality. The Granhult unit plans to open a locked and an open department with space for a total of eleven girls.

Job Description

Are you motivated to help young people in vulnerable life situations? Do you also enjoy organizing, leading, and planning? Apply for the position of group leader at SiS! As a group leader, you contribute to a safe and secure environment for both placed children and adolescents/clients as well as employees. In this role, you actively work in the operational care and treatment work on the department. You are responsible for planning, operationally leading, and distributing the daily work. You act as a role model and promote that the work is conducted legally and in accordance with applicable governing documents, methods, and set goals. You continuously keep the unit manager on your department updated on issues that may affect the work environment, care, and treatment environment or deficiencies in the operation. Introduction and guidance of new employees are also part of your work. You are part of a team with the unit manager and treatment secretary, and you will work closely together to achieve good results.

Qualifications

To thrive and succeed in the role of group leader, you are motivated to work with and help people in vulnerable life situations. The operational work and meeting with young people/clients are your main focus. You are good at planning, organizing, and prioritizing work effectively and are clear in your communication with others. At the same time, you are listening and affirming in your interactions with young people/clients and colleagues and good at building relationships. You have a professional approach and a good ability to collaborate as well as to understand others' perspectives. The work can sometimes be challenging and requires you to be stable and remain calm even in stressful situations.

You should also have:

• A university degree of at least 180 higher education credits with a focus on social, health, or behavioral sciences.
• Several years of relevant work experience within SiS or other operations focusing on care, treatment, and security, such as social services, care and treatment, correctional services, or other relevant activities.
• Good ability to express yourself in the Swedish language, both written and spoken.

At SiS, we value good leadership. This means that you as a leader take responsibility for the whole, act as a good role model, drive development, promote good collaboration, and are clear in your communication. Read more about our leadership.

Employment:

The position is a permanent full-time employment starting with a six-month probationary period. Start date by agreement.

As a state employer, we offer a range of benefits, read more about them here: Benefits (https://www.stat-inst.se/jobba-hos-oss/formaner/).

Application:

Welcome to register your application in our recruitment tool by April 11, 2025. Interviews will be conducted continuously.

Contact Person for the Position:

Christian Kokvik 010-453 28 01

Union Representatives:

Linda Eriksson, Seko, 010-453 28 54
linda.eriksson@stat-inst.se

Henrik Isgren, SACO-S, 0104534023
henrik.isgren@stat-inst.se

Per Gidlöf, ST, 010-453 78 04
Per.Gidlof@stat-inst.se

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

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

Before the recruitment process, the Swedish National Board of Institutional Care has taken a position on recruitment channels and marketing. Therefore, we firmly request not to be contacted by 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.