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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.

SiS Eknäs Youth Home admits school-aged boys between 12 and 16 years old with psychosocial problems, criminality, and substance abuse. The institution is located just outside Enköping in a beautiful natural area near Lake Mälaren. At SiS, your working life becomes an exciting challenge. Regardless of where you work in our organization or what role you hold, you help create life-changing transformations.

SiS Eknäs Youth Home is currently in an exciting phase of development and growth. We are implementing a schedule change that requires reinforcement across all departments. Therefore, we are now seeking a Therapeutic Assistant for a permanent position.

Apply for this position if you want to join this exciting journey and contribute to a place for change!

Job Description

Do you want to make a vital difference for vulnerable people? Then the job as a Therapeutic Assistant at SiS is a meaningful challenge. The goal of your mission is to motivate our young people/clients towards new and less risky ways of living.

As a Therapeutic Assistant, you are employed to provide care and treatment. You contribute to ensuring that department routines function as intended. You play a major role in the stability and security for our young people/clients and form the foundation of daily life, such as schooling, cleaning, and cooking. You contribute to maintaining order and security at the institution according to our routines. Documentation is an important part of your work.

You will work on building safe relationships and contribute to ensuring that our young people/clients receive the security and safety they need to break ingrained behaviors. Together with your team of engaged colleagues, such as therapeutic 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 vision is to be a place for change, which permeates our approach, our engagement, and our attitude.

Working hours are scheduled for days, evenings, and weekends.

As a new employee, you will undergo SiS's basic training lasting 10 weeks. The training alternates between theory and a supervised introduction, preparing you for the therapist role within SiS operations.

Qualifications

Your personal suitability is the key to life-changing transformation. Therefore, you need a good ability to create engagement and participation. Equally important is that you have a fundamentally positive view of people, great empathy, and the ability to build good relationships. You have good communication skills and can maintain your calm even in stressful situations. You also have the ability to collaborate with others and are willing to share your knowledge with colleagues.

You must also have:

• At least a 2-year post-secondary education at a folk high school or university college (KY/YH) or equivalent education. The education should be focused on social work, social pedagogy, behavioral science, or another relevant subject area.*
• Class B driver's license
• Good Swedish in speech and writing

Merits for the position include:

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

At SiS, we value 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 employee relations and leadership (https://www.stat-inst.se/jobba-hos-oss/medarbetarskap-och-ledarskap/).

*Exceptions to the requirement of at least two years of post-secondary education may 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 permanent full-time employment starting with a six-month probationary period. Start date according to agreement.

Tests and work samples may be part of the recruitment process.