Treatment Assistants Wanted at SiS Youth Home Fagared

The Swedish National Board of Institutional Care, SiS, is an authority responsible for individually tailored compulsory care for youth and adults with addiction issues. We do this at youth homes and homes for adults with addiction across the country. Working with us at SiS will be an exciting challenge. Regardless of where you work in our organization or what position you hold, you help create life-changing transformations.

SiS Youth Home Fagared accommodates non-compulsory school-age boys with psychosocial problems, criminal behavior, and addiction. We have departments in Lindome, Öxnevalla, and Gothenburg.

Job Description

SiS Youth Home Fagared is now looking for treatment assistants for summer vacancies at our two treatment departments in Öxnevalla, Marks municipality. The departments consist of two locked treatment units where you, as a treatment assistant, will work on building safe relationships and ensuring that our youth receive the security and safety they need to break old habits.

The goal of your role is to motivate our youth towards new and less risky ways of living. As a treatment assistant during the summer, you will help ensure that the routines in the department function as they should. You play a significant role in the stability and safety of our youth and clients, providing the foundation for daily life, including schooling, cleaning, cooking, and more. You will contribute to maintaining safety in the institution according to our routines. Documentation is an important part of your work. You will work on building good treatment relationships and ensuring that our youth and clients receive the security and safety they need to break old habits. Together with your team of engaged colleagues, such as treatment educators and treatment coordinators, you have the opportunity to achieve good results and contribute to change. The job is often demanding but also stimulating, joyful, and varied.

Our core values are Respect, Care, and Clarity.

We want to reward you for helping us during the summer period; therefore, those who work full-time as monthly employed substitutes 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/)

Qualifications

Your personal suitability is key to life-changing transformations. Therefore, you need to have a good ability to create engagement and participation. Equally important is that you have a solid positive view of people, great empathy, and the ability to create good treatment relationships. You have good communication skills and can remain calm even in pressured situations.

Requirements:

• Completed and approved upper secondary education
• Driver's license B
• Very good Swedish in speech and writing as the job may involve some documentation and contact with other authorities
• Experience in youth-related work or work with people in vulnerable life situations, e.g., from psychiatry, HVB operations, or from care and support. We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

Employment

The position is a fixed-term employment for the summer. It is desirable and advantageous if you can start working as a temporary employee before the summer period.

Working hours: Irregular working hours according to schedule. Either day, evening, and weekend shifts, or night shifts on weekdays and weekends.

As a summer substitute, you will undergo a tailored introductory training of 2 days. You must be able to participate in this introductory training to work with us.

Application

Welcome to register your application in our recruitment tool by February 23, 2025.

Selection and interviews will take place continuously. Interviews will be conducted on February 18 and 27.

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 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 person in the advertisement.