Treatment Pedagogue at SiS LVM Home Östfora

The Swedish National Board of Institutional Care, SiS, is an authority responsible for individually tailored compulsory care for young people and adults with substance abuse. SiS also implements secure youth care. We do this at youth homes and homes for adults with substance abuse throughout the country. Working with us at SiS makes your work life an exciting challenge. Regardless of where you work in our organization or what position you hold, you help create life-changing transformations.

SiS LVM Home Östfora in Järlåsa, northwest of Uppsala, receives men with alcohol, drug, or mixed substance abuse, in combination with mental health issues. We have special expertise in medical care and are tasked with providing care for clients with specific care needs.

Job Description

Do you want to help create life-changing transformations for vulnerable people? Then the job as a treatment pedagogue at SiS is a meaningful challenge. As a treatment pedagogue, you work in a team 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 encounter people in crisis, which means you work with qualified care and motivational efforts and provide support in everyday life. With the support of your knowledge in care and treatment work, you actively contribute to the fulfillment of treatment plans. Documentation is an important part of your work and contributes to legal security, planning, and follow-up of our operations. You help maintain safety according to our routines and contribute to the smooth running of daily activities such as schooling, cleaning, cooking, and more. Being a contact person is also one of your tasks. The job may also include mentoring new employees and interns. This is a job for you who see a positive challenge in working with vulnerable people in difficult life situations. The job is often demanding but also stimulating, joyful, and varied.

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

As a new employee, you will undergo SiS basic training for 10 weeks. The training combines theory with guided introduction and prepares you for the treatment role in SiS operations.

Working hours are scheduled for daytime, Monday to Friday.

Qualifications

To succeed in your work, you have a solid positive view of humanity. You are motivated to help people in vulnerable life situations and share SiS's core values of being a place for change. Furthermore, you have a good ability to create engagement and participation among our young people. 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 pressured situations. You work well with others and can handle conflicts constructively.

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

It is an advantage if you also have:

• Experience working with people in vulnerable life situations, e.g., work in psychiatry or LSS care
• Training in care and nursing
• Experience working with our target group of older men in substance abuse care

At SiS, we value good employee engagement. This means that you, as an employee, take responsibility for your work, contribute to development, and participate in good collaboration. Read more about us on the page below:

https://www.stat-inst.se/jobba-hos-oss/medarbetarskap-och-ledarskap/ (https://www.stat-inst.se/jobba-hos-oss/medarbetarskap-och-ledarskap/)

Employment:

• The position is a permanent full-time employment starting with a six-month probationary period. Start date as soon as possible.
• Selection and interviews may occur on an ongoing basis.
• To ensure your application is assessed correctly, you need to attach relevant educational documentation when applying that proves you meet the required qualifications for the position.
• Tests and work samples may be part of the recruitment process.

Welcome to register your application in our recruitment tool by 2026-02-26.

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 advertisement.