Treatment Assistants Wanted at SiS Youth Home Tysslinge for Summer Temporary Positions 2026

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 throughout the country. With us 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 Tysslinge, located outside Södertälje, accepts non-compulsory school boys with psychosocial issues as well as criminality and substance abuse.

Job Description

We are now looking for treatment assistants for summer temporary positions in 2026 at SiS Youth Home Tysslinge.

SiS Youth Home Tysslinge is an institution in the highest security classification that receives young people with high risks of threats, violence, and absconding.

In the role of treatment assistant, you will work in a team and together you will be responsible for ensuring that the young people in our care receive the structure, security, care, and treatment they need. We meet young people in crisis, which means we must support individuals in their daily lives through individually tailored and qualified care and motivational work with clear structures. With the support of your and your colleagues' knowledge in care and treatment work, you actively contribute to the implementation of treatment plans. Documentation is an important part of your work for planning and monitoring treatment. You will also participate in the young people's schooling and leisure activities. Daily tasks may include:

• Conducting inspections of shared departmental spaces, admitted youth, and living quarters.
• Transporting youth and monitoring during scheduled visits, meetings, and activities outside the department.
• Cleaning.
• Preparing meals.
• Continuously working closely with the youth to ensure good social interaction and safety in the department.

Since SiS Youth Home Tysslinge has the highest security classification within SiS, this means you need to work with high risk and security awareness. You contribute to maintaining safety in accordance with our written instructions and routines.

This is a job for you who can endure, who creates safety and security in the often very difficult life situations of the youth. The job is often demanding but also stimulating, joyful, and varied. As a public servant, it is important that you act professionally and in accordance with objectivity and legal certainty. You share our vision of being a place for change, which permeates our approach, commitment, and attitude.

As a summer temporary employee at SiS, you will undergo a tailored introductory training to prepare you for your assignment.

Working Hours and Schedule

The working hours are scheduled, either 100% day, evening, and weekend, or 80% night shifts on weekdays and weekends. The working hours for day, evening, and weekend 100% may look like this: 08:15-15:45, 08:15-22:15, 09:00-22:15, 11:15-21:15/23:00. The working hours for night shifts 80% may look like this: 20:45-08:30, 21:00-08:30.

As a summer temporary employee, you are expected to work according to the above schedule (day/evening or night) between weeks 26-33 (June 22 - August 16). Introduction will take place before the start during weeks 24-25, where the first week is theoretical introduction and the second week is practical introduction on the department.

There is a possibility for earlier introduction and extra work during the spring. There may also be opportunities for continued employment after the summer.

Summer Bonus

During 2026, as a summer temporary employee, you have the opportunity to receive a summer bonus if you work full-time for more than 4 weeks. To qualify for the summer bonus, you must first have completed 4 full weeks of work and can then receive a bonus of 2500 SEK for each completed week (within Tysslinge's vacation periods weeks 26-33). The bonus is proportional to the workload (100% or 80%) and deductions for absence will be made.

Qualifications

We strive for a staff group with diverse competencies in treatment work. You should be a secure adult role model for the youth and work according to the authority's guidelines. To succeed in your work, you have a humanistic view of people. You are motivated to support people in vulnerable life situations and you share SiS's values of being a place for change. Furthermore, you have a very good ability to create good relationships, engagement, and participation among our youth. As a person, you are secure in yourself and contribute to a good working environment with other staff. You have good communication skills, you consistently follow laws, regulations, and routines. You can maintain your calm even in stressful situations. You find it easy to collaborate with different professions as well as internal and external partners and are happy to share your knowledge with colleagues.

You should also have:

• Completed upper secondary education
• Degree from a 2-year post-secondary education at a folk high school or vocational college (KY/YH) with a focus on social/pedagogical treatment work or a degree from a university that we assess as equivalent. *
• Good Swedish in speech and writing

*Exceptions from the requirement for at least a two-year post-secondary education can be made in individual cases if there are special reasons according to Chapter 5, Section 4 of the Social Services Ordinance (2025:468).

Meritorious:

• Experience in youth-related work
• If you have experience working with youth in vulnerable situations
• If you have training in MI (motivational interviewing)
• B driver's license

We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

Please attach certificates showing that you have completed upper secondary education.

Employment:

Temporary employment, summer temporary position. Scope: Full-time 100% day/evening or part-time 80% night. Working hours: Irregular working hours according to schedule. Either day, evening, and weekend, or night shifts on weekdays and weekends.

Selection and interviews will be ongoing.

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 made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore firmly request not to contact 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.