Group Leader at SiS Youth Home Långanäs

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 becomes an exciting challenge. Regardless of where in our organization you work or what position you hold, you help create life-changing transformations.

SiS Youth Home Långanäs receives non-compulsory school-age girls and boys with psychosocial issues, criminality, and substance abuse.

Job Description

SiS Youth Home Långanäs is undergoing a restart of operations, including the opening of two departments in completely new premises. Extensive work has been done to ensure safe and secure care for the children and young people who will be placed with us.

Are you motivated to help young people/clients in a vulnerable life situation? 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 young people/clients as well as employees. In this role, you actively participate 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 shortcomings in the operations. Introduction and guidance of new employees are also part of your work. You are part of a team with a unit manager and treatment secretary, and you will have close cooperation to achieve good results together.

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 is your primary 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 attentive and affirming in your interactions with young people/clients and colleagues and are skilled at building relationships. You have a professional approach and a good ability to collaborate and 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:

• Relevant university degree with a focus on social sciences, healthcare, or behavioral sciences, or other education combined with work experience that SiS considers equivalent.
• Several years of documented work experience in SiS or other operations focused on care, treatment, and security, such as social services, healthcare and treatment, correctional services, or other relevant fields.
• Good ability to express yourself in Swedish, both written and spoken.

At SiS, we care about good leadership. This means that as a leader, you take responsibility for the whole, act as a good role model, drive development, promote good cooperation, 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, a range of benefits are included, read more about these here: Benefits (https://www.stat-inst.se/jobba-hos-oss/formaner/)

Application:

Welcome to register your application in our recruitment tool by 2025-05-04.

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 background checks before employment.

In preparation for the recruitment work, the Swedish National Board of Institutional Care has decided on recruitment channels and marketing. Therefore, we kindly ask not to contact media sellers, recruitment sites, or 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.