Vacant job

Active HVB Vasavägen is a residential care facility located in Linköping, accommodating youth aged 16-20 for individual treatment in our apartment concept. We actively and purposefully work to create a safe, trusting, and meaningful environment for our youth.

With us, you will work in a team with various professionals who collectively lead the treatment processes for the youth. We engage in everything concerning our youth. The work involves meeting people in crisis and/or with difficult life situations, and it is crucial that you can see opportunities, convey hope, and meet people in a respectful and safe manner. Together with the youth, you will create a functioning and secure everyday life, where you train together based on a milieu therapeutic approach.

You are inspiring and relationship-building and have a good ability to establish contact with people in vulnerable situations. You are calm, stable, and can maintain a realistic perspective on situations that arise in daily work. You have good collaborative skills and relate to others in a responsive manner, enjoying working together with others. You are an independent, humble, and responsible person who is passionate about care work and can see the individual's needs.

We place great importance on personal suitability.

Requirements:

• Qualified social worker, behavioral scientist, or social and cultural analyst, alternatively a qualified social pedagogue with a minimum of 400 YH credits.

• Previous experience working with children and youth, preferably in a residential care facility.

• Driver's license B. Meritorious:

• Experience in case management at an authority.

• Basic psychotherapy education, step 1.

• Further education in MI, ÅP, TMO, and similar.

Role: Social Pedagogue

Employment Type: Permanent with a probationary period

Working Hours: Full-time

Work Schedule: Irregular

Start Date: By agreement

Viljan is part of Attendo, a secure employer that can offer you good opportunities to take on more responsibility or to move on to new roles. We offer our employees training opportunities, collective agreements, wellness benefits, and several other advantages and employee discounts through our benefits portal AttendoPlus, in collaboration with Benifex.

Before potential employment, a criminal record extract along with valid photo identification must be presented. If you are called for an interview, you need to be able to prove that you have the right to work in Sweden by showing that you have citizenship within the EU/EES or a valid work permit.

The application deadline is 9/2 2026, but selection and interviews will be conducted continuously, so do not wait to apply.

Viljan is part of Attendo, one of the largest care companies in the Nordic region, established in 1985. We operate within IOF. Our values of care, commitment, and competence guide us daily in our work to ensure that everyone experiences well-being, participation, community, and joy at work.

If you want to help people take the next positive step in life, Viljan is the workplace for you.