Operational Leader at SiS Youth Home Vemyra

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 secure youth care. We do this at 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 Vemyra, located outside Sollefteå, receives school-age boys up to 16 years old with psychosocial problems as well as criminal behavior and substance abuse.

Job Description

Do you want to help create the vital difference for vulnerable people? Then the role of Operational Leader is a meaningful job. In this role, you will be 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 will 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 will be responsible for incident management in emergency situations and take necessary actions following an incident. You will communicate identified deficiencies and deviations from routines to the relevant managers. You will establish and update safety assessments and make decisions regarding coercive measures according to LVU and SiS's work and delegation order.

Qualifications

To thrive and succeed in this role, we believe that 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 working within SiS or similar operations.
• Several years of experience working within SiS or other organizations focused on care, treatment, and safety, such as social services, care and treatment, correctional services, or other relevant fields.
• Good ability to lead, prioritize, and coordinate a work group.

We place great importance on your personal qualities.

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 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 across days, evenings, and nights.

Interviews may occur 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 process, the Swedish National Board of Institutional Care has made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing. Therefore, we kindly ask not to be contacted by media sellers, recruitment sites, or similar.

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