Treatment Pedagogue at SiS Youth Home Brättegården

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 at youth homes and homes for adults with substance abuse across the country. With us at SiS, your work life will be 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 Brättegården is located just outside Vänersborg. We receive non-compulsory school-age girls with psychosocial issues, mental health problems, as well as criminal behavior and substance abuse.

Job Description

Are you motivated to work with young people in vulnerable life situations and can you stand firm for the girls who need it the most?

Working within compulsory care with young people is meaningful, stimulating, and developing but also challenging. As a treatment pedagogue, you work in a team together with treatment assistants and treatment coordinators, and together you are responsible for ensuring that the young people living with us receive the safety, care, and treatment they need. You work with qualified care and motivational work and provide support in daily life. You actively contribute to the implementation of treatment plans, and documentation is an important part of your work, contributing to legal security, planning, and follow-up of our operations. You help maintain safety and participate in ensuring that daily life runs smoothly with schooling, cleaning, cooking, etc.

Brättegården has six departments where each department has a unit manager, a group leader, and a treatment secretary who together form a department team that supports and leads the department's staff. We are now looking for treatment pedagogues with various specializations and experiences. In your personal letter, we want you to motivate which specialization you are interested in and what competencies you possess that meet this. Below is a description of the different specializations:

• Specially Enhanced Departments (SFA): Within SFA, you work with girls with autism spectrum disorders and/or intellectual disabilities as well as other psychiatric issues that require specially adapted care and treatment. There are few placed girls and a high staff density in an adapted care environment. The fundamental aspect of the department is the habilitative perspective where the goal is to create safety, functioning relationships, and to find strategies that make it possible to manage life based on the existing conditions.
• Department for Reception and Needs Assessment (MBB): At MBB, the focus is on stabilizing the young person's situation and well-being as well as breaking socially destructive behaviors such as criminality or substance abuse. An MBB department is often the girls' first contact with compulsory care, which means a strong focus on safety-based and relationship-building work to capture which patterns need to be broken in the acute situation to help the girl.
• Locked Treatment Departments: In the treatment department, you work based on each young person's individual treatment plan. You do this through skill training, structured treatment activities, and program operations. You are involved in everything concerning the girls' daily life in the department and at school. We have both traditional treatment departments and treatment departments focused on substance abuse.
• Open Department: As part of the treatment for transition, there is an open department. Here, the focus is on helping the girls maintain their acquired skills by training in open forms.

Qualifications

As a person, you need to be a secure adult who is listening and has the ability to create trusting relationships with young people who have challenging behaviors. You must be able to remain composed in stressful situations and handle conflicts constructively. You need to see and understand the importance of collaborating with your colleagues while also being able to make your own decisions.

You should also have:

• A minimum of a degree from a 2-year post-secondary education at a folk high school or vocational college with a focus on social/pedagogical treatment work or education from a university that we assess as equivalent
• A valid driver's license (B)
• Good Swedish language skills in both speech and writing

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

Employment:

Working hours are according to a schedule and include days, evenings, and weekends.

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

Interviews will be conducted continuously starting during the advertising period and at two scheduled times on December 11th and December 19th.

As a new employee, you will undergo SiS basic training for 10 weeks. The training combines theory with a guided introduction. The training prepares you for the treatment role in SiS operations.

Application:

Welcome to register your application in our recruitment tool by December 16th, 2025.

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

Union Representatives:

OFR: Stefan Eriksson, 072-553 61 31

Saco-S: Merja Aathila, 010-4532409

Seko: Martin Rapp, 010-453 27 27

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 taken a stance on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore firmly request not to be contacted by 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.

Contact Person:

Camilla Åberg-Sjögren, Unit Manager

Email: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

Phone: 010 453 6101

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 taken a stance on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore firmly request not to be contacted by 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.