Summer Temporary Position as Treatment Pedagogue at SiS

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 in youth homes and homes for adults with substance abuse across the country. At SiS, your working life becomes an exciting challenge. Regardless of where in our organization you work or what position you hold, you help create life-changing transformations.

SiS youth home Ljungaskog receives non-compulsory school-age girls with psychosocial issues, substance abuse, and self-harm problems. The institution is tasked with providing care for girls with special care needs.

Job Description

Take the opportunity to try an interesting summer temporary position as a treatment pedagogue at SiS. As a treatment pedagogue, you work in a team together with treatment assistants and treatment coordinators, and together you are responsible for ensuring that the young people and clients living with us receive the safety, care, and treatment they need. We often meet people in crisis, which means you work with qualified care and motivational work and provide support in everyday life. With the support of your knowledge and skills in care and treatment work, you actively contribute to the fulfillment of treatment plans. Documentation is an important part of your work, contributing to legal security, planning, and follow-up of our operations. You also contribute to maintaining safety according to our routines and help ensure that daily life runs smoothly with schooling, cleaning, cooking, etc. The work may include case management. This is a job for you who see a positive challenge in working with vulnerable people in a difficult life situation. The job is often demanding but also stimulating, joyful, and varied.

The working hours are according to a schedule of days, evenings, and weekends.

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

Qualifications for Treatment Pedagogue

To succeed in your work, you have a solid positive view of humanity. You are motivated to help people in vulnerable life situations, and you share SiS's core values of being a place for change. Furthermore, you have a good ability to create engagement and participation among our youth. As a person, you are self-assured and easily build relationships with young people as well as with other staff members. You have good communication skills and can maintain your calm even in stressful situations. You find it easy to collaborate with others and can handle conflicts constructively. Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability.

You should also have:

• A 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 education from a university that we assess as equivalent
• A valid driver's license (B)
• Good Swedish language skills in both spoken and written form

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

Qualifications for Treatment Assistant

You should also have:

• Completed high school education
• Experience working with people in vulnerable life situations, e.g., work within psychiatry or LSS care
• A valid driver's license (B)
• Good Swedish language skills in both spoken and written form

Meritorious for the position

• Experience working with people in vulnerable life situations, e.g., work within psychiatry or LSS care
• Experience from client-facing positions in the Prison and Probation Service, e.g., correctional officer
• Security guard training
• Experience from client-facing positions in the Migration Agency, e.g., case officer at the detention center
• Education in care and nursing
• Experience working with our target group (e.g., substance abuse care, youth care, young girls, etc.)

To succeed in your work, you have a solid positive view of humanity. You are motivated to help people in vulnerable life situations, and you share SiS's core values of being a place for change. You have a good ability to create engagement and participation among our youth and/or clients. As a person, you are self-assured and easily build good treatment relationships. You have good communication skills and can maintain your calm even in stressful situations. You find it easy to collaborate with others and can handle conflicts constructively.

You share our vision of being a place for change, which permeates your approach, engagement, and attitude.

We want to reward you for helping us during the summer period; therefore, those who work full-time as monthly employed temporary staff for more than four weeks will receive a bonus. Read more at https://www.stat-inst.se/jobba-hos-oss/lediga-jobb/ (https://www.stat-inst.se/jobba-hos-oss/lediga-jobb/)

Employment

The position is a fixed-term employment during the summer period.

Application

Welcome to register your application in our recruitment tool by February 20.

Interviews will be held on Friday, February 27, from 09:30 to 12:00.

Union Representatives:

OFR/S: Cecilia Hyberg, 0104537273, [email protected]

SEKO: Rita Nilsson, [email protected]

SACO S: Henrik Isgren, 0104534023, [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 made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing. Therefore, we firmly request no contact from 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 in the ad.