Summer Temporary Position as Treatment Assistant 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. Working with us at SiS will make 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 youth home Ryds brunn receives school-age boys with psychosocial issues, criminality, and substance abuse.

Job Description

Take the opportunity to try an interesting summer temporary position as a treatment assistant at SiS.

The goal of your assignment is to motivate our youth to adopt new and less risky ways of living. As a treatment assistant, you will 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 such as schooling, cleaning, cooking, and more. You contribute to maintaining safety in the institution according to our routines. Documentation is an important part of your job. You will work on building good treatment relationships and contribute to ensuring that our youth and clients receive the safety and security they need to break habitual behaviors. Together with your team of dedicated colleagues, such as treatment educators and treatment coordinators, you have the opportunity to achieve good results and contribute to change. The job can often be demanding but is also stimulating, joyful, and varied.

Working hours are according to a schedule, including 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

You should have:

• At least a 2-year post-secondary education from a folk high school or vocational college (KY/YH) or other education equivalent to this. The education should be focused on social work, social pedagogy, behavioral science, or another relevant subject area.
• Experience working with people in vulnerable life situations, e.g., work in psychiatry or LSS care.
• Driver's license B.
• Good Swedish language skills in both speech and writing.

Below are examples of desirable qualifications that can be used in recruitment (select what fits your specific recruitment process)

• Experience from client-facing positions in the Swedish Prison and Probation Service, e.g., prison officer.
• Security guard training.
• Experience from client-facing positions in the Swedish Migration Agency, e.g., caseworker in detention.
• Education in care and support.
• Experience working with our target group (e.g., substance abuse care, youth care, young girls, etc.)

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, a strong empathetic ability, and the ability to create good treatment relationships. You have good communication skills and can remain calm even in stressful situations. You also have the ability to collaborate with others and are happy to share your knowledge with colleagues.

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

Exceptions to the requirement for at least a two-year post-secondary education can be made in individual cases if there are special reasons according to Chapter 5, Section 4 of the Social Services Ordinance (2025:468).

We want to reward you for helping us during the summer period, so those who work full-time as monthly employed summer temp 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 from 260615 to 260809.

Application

Welcome to register your application in our recruitment tool by 260430.

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

For work in 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. We therefore 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.