Job Description

Do you want to be part of creating vital change 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 together 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 meet people in crisis, which means you work with qualified care and motivational work 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, contributing to legal security, planning, and follow-up of our operations. You contribute to maintaining safety according to our routines and help ensure that daily life runs smoothly with schooling, cleaning, cooking, etc. 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 a difficult life situation. 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, our engagement, and our attitude.

Working hours are according to a schedule, including days, evenings, and weekends.

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

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 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 establish 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 an equivalent education from a university.
• A valid 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 working with people in vulnerable life situations, e.g., work in psychiatry or LSS care.
• Experience from client-facing positions in the Prison and Probation Service, e.g., probation officer.
• Security guard training.
• Experience from client-facing positions at the Migration Agency, e.g., caseworker at the detention center.
• Training in care and social services.
• Experience working with our target group (e.g., addiction treatment, youth care, young girls, etc.).

At SiS, we care about good employee participation. This means that you as an employee take responsibility for your work, contribute to development, and participate in good collaboration. Read more about our employee participation.

Employment:

The position is a permanent full-time employment starting with a six-month probationary period. Start date by agreement.

Recruitment and interviews will be conducted continuously during the advertisement period.

Tests and work samples may be included in the recruitment process.

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.