Treatment Coordinator at SiS Youth Home Klarälvsgården

The Swedish National Board of Institutional Care, SiS, is an authority responsible for individually tailored compulsory care for young people with complex psychosocial issues and for adults with substance abuse. SiS also implements secure youth care. We do this at youth homes and homes for adults with substance abuse across the country. At SiS, your work life will be an exciting challenge. No matter where in our organization you work, or what position you hold, you help create life-changing transformations.

SiS Youth Home Klarälvsgården receives non-compulsory school boys with psychosocial problems as well as criminality and substance abuse. We are tasked with receiving boys with an increased need for psychiatric interventions.

Job Description

Do you want to help create the vital difference for vulnerable people? Then the job as a treatment coordinator at SiS is a meaningful role. The starting point in our treatment work is to motivate people to new and less destructive ways of living. You will work in a team of dedicated colleagues, and with your combined expertise, you have the opportunity to achieve good results. As a treatment coordinator, you will plan, implement, and follow up on program activities. You will conduct treatment conversations and have a special responsibility for documentation and the forms and instruments used in treatment. You collaborate with various functions regarding mapping, establishing, and following up on treatment plans. The role of treatment coordinator also includes an additional responsibility for mentoring new employees and interns. Part of the role will also involve family work. The tasks may include family therapeutic interventions, psychoeducational efforts, and parent education 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 participating in family treatment efforts is an important part of your work. The work is carried out in a team that includes psychologists, treatment secretaries, group leaders, nurses, and teachers. An important shared mission for all employees is to contribute to creating a safe environment and ensuring that safety at the institution is maintained according to procedures. The job is often demanding but also stimulating, joyful, and varied.

Our vision is to be a place for change, and this permeates our approach, our commitment, and our attitude.

Benefits

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

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

You also receive a wellness allowance each year to use for training or other wellness activities that suit you, some compensation for doctor visits and medications covered by the high-cost protection, and the opportunity to have doctor 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

Your personal suitability is key to life-changing transformation. Therefore, you need to have a good ability to create engagement and participation. Equally important is that you have a solid positive view of people, are empathetic, and can create good relationships. You have good communication skills and can maintain your calm even in pressured situations. You also have a good ability to collaborate with others and are happy to share your knowledge with colleagues. In your role as a treatment coordinator, you will have individual responsibility for several interventions in the treatment plan as well as responsibility in the department that requires experience and the ability to coordinate that work. You need to be able to plan and structure your work, work independently, and take your own initiatives. As the treatment work is documented and discussed with several different actors, high demands are placed on good Swedish in both speech and writing.

You should also have:

• Relevant higher education, such as a social worker, social pedagogue, or other care/behavioral science education, or post-secondary education such as treatment pedagogue, with solid experience in program activities.
• Experience in conducting motivational and treatment work individually and/or in groups.
• Experience working with youth or families in vulnerable situations.
• Good Swedish in speech and writing.
• Driving license B

It is advantageous if you:

• Are an instructor in ART, relapse prevention, or PULS.

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

Employment:

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

Application:

Welcome to register your application in our recruitment tool by 250410.

Tests and work samples may be included in the recruitment process.

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

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

In preparation for the recruitment work, the Swedish National Board of Institutional Care has made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing. Therefore, we firmly request no contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.

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