Job Description

SiS is an authority that conducts socially important activities by providing compulsory care and treatment to young people and adults with serious psychosocial problems and substance abuse. This activity is part of the care chain aimed at providing individuals with the conditions for a socially functioning life. SiS also implements closed youth care. SiS youth homes.

Folåsa receives school-age girls with psychosocial issues as well as criminality and substance abuse. At Folåsa, we are investing in increasing staffing in our departments as a quality enhancement for the target group where you as a treatment pedagogue have the opportunity to be part of our development journey!

Through your employment as a treatment pedagogue, you can make a difference for our youth.

In our operations, you as a treatment pedagogue have the opportunity for treatment work in an environment with high security and good staffing density. The youth at SiS have backgrounds marked by unpredictability and stress in various forms, which means your focus is on working professionally with treatment work, care and motivational work, and being a support in everyday life. This is a job for you who see a positive challenge in working with vulnerable girls in a difficult life situation. You will be part of the youth's care and treatment, schooling, cooking and cleaning routines, as well as weekend and evening activities. You work on building secure relationships, among other things through case management but also with selected and well-functioning treatment methods. Documentation is an important part of your work and contributes to legal security, planning, and follow-up of our operations.

By working at SiS:

• You make a difference: You contribute to life-changing transformations for youth with psychosocial problems.
• Meaningful work: You get a job where what you do matters every day by helping people in need of support and treatment.
• Teamwork: You work in teams with various professional groups such as psychologists, teachers, and nurses to have a holistic approach to treatment.
• Opportunity for development: You have great opportunities to develop, increase your competence through education, and take on more responsibility.
• Security and community: The work is based on creating secure relationships and contributing to a stable and safe everyday life for the youth.
• Competence development: SiS offers basic training in areas such as TMO, MI, CBT, and addiction theory, and you have great opportunities to increase your competence.
• Benefits: As a state employee, you have several benefits such as more vacation days than other employers in healthcare and social care, wellness grants, certain compensation for healthcare and medications, the possibility of relocation leave, and access to occupational health services.

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. At SiS, you truly have the chance to make a difference for someone and change lives!

Read more about our operations at SiS - A Place for Change - SiS - The National Board of Institutional Care (www.stat-inst.se).

Qualifications

Requirements for the position are:

• Post-secondary education of at least two years in accordance with the new Social Services Ordinance. This can be education in areas such as social work, social pedagogy, behavioral science, or other relevant fields.
• Driver's license B
• Good Swedish in speech and writing

Personal Qualities

To succeed in your work, you have a solid positive view of people. You are motivated to help people in a vulnerable life situation and you share SiS's values, to be a place for change. Furthermore, you have a good ability to create engagement and participation among our youth. As a person, you are secure in yourself and have an easy time building relationships with youth as well as with others in the staff group. You have good communication skills and can maintain your calm even in pressured situations. You find it easy to collaborate with others and can handle conflicts constructively.

At SiS, we care about good employee participation. 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 participation.

Employment:

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

Start date according to agreement.

Working hours are according to schedule, day - evening and weekend.

As a new employee, you will undergo SiS's basic training for 10 weeks. In the training, theory is combined with a guided introduction, and it is important that you who work closely with youth and clients have the tools you need. At SiS, you as a treatment pedagogue receive a training package that includes:

• SiS's ten-week basic training
• SiS's own program for effective conflict management
• Suicide prevention
• Motivational interviewing (MI)

Interviews may be conducted on an ongoing basis.

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 National Board of Institutional Care has taken a position on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore 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.