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Treatment Pedagogue at SiS Folåsa Youth Home – Summer & Hourly Contract

The National Board of Institutional Care (SiS) is a government agency responsible for individually adapted compulsory care for young people and adults with substance abuse issues. SiS also implements closed youth care. We operate youth homes and homes for adults with substance abuse issues across the country. At SiS, your working life becomes an exciting challenge. Regardless of where in our organization you work, or what position you hold, you help create life-changing transformations.

SiS Folåsa Youth Home admits school-age girls with psychosocial problems, as well as criminality and substance abuse issues.

Job Description

Seize the opportunity to try an interesting summer contract and/or hourly contract as a Treatment Pedagogue at SiS Folåsa.

The goal of your assignment is to motivate our young people towards new and less risky ways of living. As a Treatment Pedagogue, you ensure that the routines on the ward function as intended. You play a vital role in the stability and security for our young people and clients. You form the foundation of daily life, including schooling, cleaning, cooking, and more. You contribute to maintaining security at the institution according to our routines. Documentation is an important part of your work. You will work on building good treatment relationships and contribute to ensuring that our young people and clients receive the security and safety they need to break ingrained behaviors. Together with your team of engaged colleagues, such as treatment pedagogues 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.

We are looking for individuals who can work days, evenings, and weekends, as well as those who can work solely as awake night staff.

As a temporary employee at SiS, you will undergo an adapted 4-day introductory training to prepare you for your assignment.

Qualifications

To succeed in your work, you must have a fundamentally positive view of people. You are motivated to help people in vulnerable life situations and share SiS's value system: to be a place for change. Furthermore, you have a good ability to create engagement and participation among our young people. As a person, you are confident in yourself and find it easy to build relationships with young people as well as with other staff members. You have good communication skills and can maintain your calm even in stressful situations. You find it easy to collaborate with others and can handle conflicts constructively.

You must also have:

• A degree or ongoing education from at least a 2-year post-secondary education at a folk high school or university college (KY/YH) with a focus on social/pedagogical treatment work, or a university education that we consider equivalent. Exceptions to the education requirement can be made, but only if there are special reasons*. A special reason could, for example, be long professional experience or other relevant competence.
• Class B driver's license.
• Good Swedish in speech and writing.

It is an advantage if you have:

• Experience working with people in vulnerable life situations, e.g., work within psychiatry or LSS care.
• Experience from client-facing positions at the Prison and Probation Service, e.g., as a Prison Officer.
• Education within care and welfare.
• Experience working with children and young people with NPF diagnoses (Neurodevelopmental Disorders) and ID (Intellectual Disability).

We want to reward you who are employed on a summer contract; therefore, if you work full-time as a monthly temporary employee for more than four weeks, you will receive a bonus. Read more here (https://www.stat-inst.se/jobba-hos-oss/lediga-jobb/).

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

*Exceptions can be made in individual cases if there are special reasons according to Chapter 5, Section 4 of the Social Services Ordinance (2025:468).

Employment

The position is a fixed-term employment as a summer temporary employee (full-time weeks 26-33) or an hourly temporary employee. As an hourly employee, there are good opportunities to start with us as soon as possible during the spring and to continue even during the autumn.

Application

Welcome to register your application in our recruitment tool no later than April 16, 2026. We will make ongoing selections, but all applications will be considered.

If you are called for an interview, you need to show a valid driver's license/photo ID and be able to prove that you have the right to work in Sweden. You can do this by showing that you have citizenship within the EU/EEA or a valid work permit.

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

For work at our institutions, SiS conducts a background check before employment.

Before the recruitment process, the National Board of Institutional Care has taken a stance on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore firmly decline contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and the like.

NB! If you have protected personal data, you should not apply via the recruitment system. Instead, contact the person listed as the contact person in the advertisement.