Operational Leader at SiS Youth Home Vemyra

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 closed 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 contribute to creating life-changing impact.

SiS Youth Home Vemyra, located outside Sollefteå, receives school-age boys up to 16 years old with psychosocial problems as well as criminality and substance abuse.

Job Description

Do you want to help create the life-changing difference for vulnerable people? Then the job as an operational leader is a meaningful role. In the role of operational leader, you are responsible for institution-wide coordination and management of ongoing work outside office hours, in the evenings and nights, to promote a safe care and work environment. You guide and support your colleagues in their work and ensure that the work is conducted legally and in accordance with applicable governing documents, methods, and set goals. Specifically, this means that you are responsible for incident management during alarm situations and take necessary actions after an incident has occurred. You communicate noted deficiencies and deviations from routines to relevant managers. You establish and update safety assessments and make decisions about coercive measures according to the Care of Young Persons Act (LVU) and SiS's work and delegation order.

Qualifications

To thrive and succeed in this role, we believe you are a stable person who remains calm even in stressful situations. You have the will and ability to act based on applicable decisions, guidelines, and policies. You have a holistic view and act in the best interest of the organization. Furthermore, you are structured in your work and have a good ability to plan and prioritize effectively.

You should also have:

• Relevant higher education such as social work, behavioral science, or another equivalent higher education, or at least a two-year vocational education (treatment pedagogue) along with experience working within SiS or similar operations.
• Several years of experience working within SiS or another organization focusing on care, treatment, and safety, such as social services, care and treatment, correctional services, or other relevant operations.
• Good ability to lead, prioritize, and coordinate a workgroup.

We place great importance on your personal qualities.

At SiS, we value good leadership. This means that you as a manager and leader take responsibility for the whole, act as a good role model, drive development, promote good collaboration, and communicate clearly. Read more about our leadership (#).

Employment:

The position is a permanent full-time employment starting with a six-month probationary period. Start date according to agreement. Working hours are distributed over days, evenings, and nights.

Interviews may take place before the application deadline.

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. Therefore, we kindly ask for no contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, or 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.