Treatment Assistant at SiS Youth Home Tysslinge

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 closed youth care. We do this at youth homes and homes for adults with substance abuse 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 have, you help create life-changing transformations.

SiS Youth Home Tysslinge, located outside Södertälje, receives non-compulsory school boys with psychosocial issues as well as criminality and substance abuse.

Job Description

SiS Youth Home Tysslinge is a high-security institution that accommodates young people with high risks of threats, violence, and absconding. The institution has a total of seven departments that receive young people placed according to the Care of Young Persons Act (LVU) and young people sentenced under the Act on Closed Youth Care (LSU). One of the departments consists of places for young people who are cared for in isolation (VIE) for a period. The majority of our youth are often in a legal process or already convicted of serious crimes and have connections to criminal networks.

As a treatment assistant, you will work in a team and together you are responsible for ensuring that the young people in our care receive the structure, safety, care, and treatment they need. We meet young people in crisis, which means we support individuals in their daily lives through individually adapted and qualified care and motivational work with clear structures. With the support of your and your colleagues' knowledge in care and treatment work, you actively contribute to the fulfillment of treatment plans. Documentation is an important part of your work for planning and follow-up of treatment. During the day, you also function as a teaching assistant and participate in the young people's schooling and leisure activities.

Since SiS Youth Home Tysslinge has the highest security classification within SiS, it means that you need to work with a high level of risk awareness. You contribute to maintaining safety in accordance with our written instructions and routines.

This is a job for you who can stand firm and want to create safety and security in the often very difficult life situations of the young people. The job is often demanding but also stimulating, joyful, and varied. It involves conflict management and, in some cases, physical interventions, which you as an employee will receive mandatory training in. As a civil servant, it is important that you act professionally and in accordance with objectivity and legal security. You share our vision of being a place for change, which permeates our approach, commitment, and attitude.

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

The employment begins with a mandatory introductory week, which is a prerequisite for starting work in the department. The training will take place on-site at Tysslinge.

Feel free to read about our benefits for you as an employee at: Benefits as a state employee - SiS (https://stat-inst.se/for-medarbetare/formaner)

Working Hours

The working hours are scheduled according to an irregular schedule on days, evenings, and weekends at 100%. The majority of our shifts are long, often between 10 to 13 hours, but with more days off as compensation.

Qualifications

We strive for a staff group with diverse competencies in treatment work. You should be a secure, adult role model for the youth and work according to the authority's guidelines. To succeed in your work, you have a humanistic view of people. You are motivated to support people in vulnerable life situations and share SiS's core values, to be a place for change. Furthermore, you have a very good ability to create good relationships, engagement, and participation among our youth. As a person, you are secure in yourself and contribute to a good working environment with other staff. You have good communication skills, can maintain your calm even in pressured situations, and consistently follow laws, regulations, and routines. You also find it easy to collaborate with different professions and internal and external partners and are happy to share your knowledge with colleagues.

As a treatment assistant, you should have:

• Completed upper secondary education
• Experience in youth-related work
• Good Swedish in speech and writing
• 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 a degree from a university that we assess as equivalent.

Meritorious:

• Driving license B
• If you have experience working with youth in vulnerable situations
• If you have training in MI (motivational interviewing)

According to the new Social Services Ordinance (Chapter 5, Section 4 of the Social Services Ordinance (2025:468)), we only hire with special exceptions individuals who do not meet the requirements of at least two years of post-secondary education. In such cases, these individuals will be employed in the position of treatment assistant.

We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

Employment:

Permanent employment, 6 months probationary period applies.
Scope: Full-time, irregular working hours
Salary form: Monthly salary
Start date: By agreement

Application:

Welcome to register your application in our recruitment tool by 2026-03-22.
We conduct ongoing selection and interviews.

As part of the recruitment process, extracts from the police authority's suspicion and criminal records will be taken. If you are included in these records, you will not be able to obtain employment.

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 work, the Swedish National Board of Institutional Care has taken a position on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore firmly request not to be contacted by media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.

Note! If you have protected personal information, you should not apply through the recruitment system. Instead, contact the person listed as the contact person in the advertisement.