Vacant job

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, 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 help create life-changing differences.

SiS youth home Bergsmansgården receives non-compulsory school-age girls. We operate in Fjugesta, thirty kilometers west of Örebro, and have a satellite unit in Granhult, thirty kilometers north of Lindesberg. The girls come to us because they have psychosocial issues as well as problems with crime or drug abuse.

Job Description

Do you want to help create life-changing differences for vulnerable people? Then the role of operational leader is a meaningful job. As an 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 operations are conducted legally and in accordance with applicable governing documents, methods, and set goals. Specifically, this means that you are responsible for incident management in alarm situations and take necessary actions after an incident occurs. You communicate noted deficiencies and deviations from routines to the relevant managers. You establish and update safety assessments and make decisions on coercive measures according to LVU in accordance with SiS 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 willingness and ability to act according to 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 worker, behavioral scientist, or other equivalent higher education, or at least a two-year vocational education (treatment pedagogue) along with experience of 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.

At SiS, we care about 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 are clear in your communication. Read more about our leadership.

Employment:

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

We warmly welcome your application by February 25.

SiS actively works against all forms of discrimination and welcomes all applicants.

For work at our institutions, SiS conducts a background check before employment.

In preparation for recruitment, 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.

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