Treatment Assistant at SiS Youth Home Nereby

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 in youth homes and homes for adults with substance abuse, across the country. At SiS, your work life becomes 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 Nereby operates in Harestad and Bergsjön. We conduct differentiated and high-quality educational, care, and treatment work. The operation includes a variety of professions, such as teachers, treatment pedagogues, psychologists, nurses, and more. SiS Youth Home Nereby accepts both school-age and non-school-age boys and girls with psychosocial issues as well as criminal behavior and substance abuse.

Job Description

Do you want to help create life-changing differences for vulnerable people? Then the job as a treatment assistant at SiS is a meaningful challenge. The goal of your assignment is to motivate our youth/clients to new and less risky ways of living. As a treatment assistant, you are employed to provide care and treatment. You contribute to ensuring that the routines in the department function as they should. You play a significant role in the stability and safety of our youth/clients and are responsible for the foundation of daily life such as schooling, cleaning, cooking, and more. You help maintain order and safety in the institution according to our routines. Documentation is an important part of your work. You will work on building trusting relationships and contribute to ensuring that our youth/clients receive the security and safety they need to break ingrained behaviors. Together with your team of dedicated colleagues such as treatment pedagogues and treatment coordinators, you have the opportunity to achieve good results and contribute to change. The job is often demanding but also stimulating, joyful, and varied.

You will be employed at Nereby in general and should be willing to work extra at both of our units, Harestad in Kungälv and Bergsjön. Your schedule will be based on one of our two units in Bergsjön. We will review the job advertisement continuously, apply today!

Our vision is to be a place for change, and this permeates our approach, our engagement, and our attitude.

The working hours are according to a schedule, day - evening, and weekend.

Qualifications

Your personal suitability is key to life-changing transformations. Therefore, you need to have a good ability to create engagement and participation. Equally important is that you have a solid positive view of people, great empathetic ability, and the ability to create good relationships. You have good communication skills and can remain calm even in pressured situations. You also have the ability to collaborate with others and are happy to share your knowledge with colleagues.

You should also have:

• At least a 2-year post-secondary education at a folk high school or vocational college (KY/YH) or other education equivalent to this. The education should be focused on social work, social pedagogy, behavioral science, or another relevant field.
• Driver's license B
• Good Swedish in speech and writing
• Experience from client-facing positions in the Swedish Prison and Probation Service, e.g., correctional officer
• Experience from client-facing positions in the Swedish Migration Agency, e.g., case officer at the detention center
• Education in care and welfare
• Experience working with our target group (e.g., substance abuse care, youth care, young girls, etc.)

At SiS, we value good employee relationships. This means that you as an employee take responsibility for your work, contribute to development, and participate in good collaboration. Read more about our employee relationships.

Employment:

The position is a temporary employment during the spring of 2026 with a requirement that you should be able to work during the summer as a substitute for our regular staff.

Administrative Manager: Johan Austli, [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]).

HR: Cecilia Fykén, [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

Trade Union ST, Jose de Brito, [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

Saco-S, Henrik Isgren, [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

Seko, Sasa Mitic, [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

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 process, the Swedish National Board of Institutional Care has taken a stance on recruitment channels and marketing. Therefore, we firmly request no contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, or similar.

Note! If you have protected personal information, you should not apply via the recruitment system. Instead, contact the person listed as the contact person in the advertisement.