Vacant job

The Swedish National Board of Institutional Care (SiS) is an authority responsible for individually adapted compulsory care for young people with complex psychosocial problems and for adults with substance abuse issues. SiS also operates closed youth care. We do this through youth homes and homes for adults with substance abuse across the country. At SiS, your working life becomes an exciting challenge. Regardless of where you work in our organization or what position you hold, you help create life-changing change.

SiS LVM Home Hessleby, located in a beautiful forest setting just outside Mariannelund, admits men with alcohol, drug, or combined substance abuse. We have specialized competence in receiving clients with mental health issues or aggressive behavior. We are tasked with providing care for clients with special care needs.

Job Description

Do you want to be part of creating life-changing change for vulnerable people? Then the position of Treatment Pedagogue at SiS is a meaningful challenge. As a Treatment Pedagogue, you work in a team together with treatment assistants and treatment coordinators. 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 encounter people in crisis, which means you work with qualified nursing and motivational work, as well as providing support in daily life. With your knowledge in care and treatment work, you actively contribute to the fulfillment of treatment plans. Documentation is an important part of your job and contributes 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. Contact person duties are also part of your responsibilities. The job may also involve mentoring new employees and interns.

This is a job for you who sees a positive challenge in working with vulnerable people in difficult life situations. 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 schedule, including days, evenings, and weekends.

Qualifications

To succeed in your work, you have a firmly grounded positive view of humanity. You are motivated to help people in vulnerable life situations and share SiS's value base, 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 secure in yourself and have an easy time building 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 cooperate well with others and can handle conflicts constructively.

You must also have:

• A degree from 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 assess as equivalent.
• A valid B driver's license.
• Good Swedish language skills in speech and writing.

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 cooperation. Read more about employee relations and leadership (https://www.stat-inst.se/jobba-hos-oss/medarbetarskap-och-ledarskap/).

Employment:

The position is a temporary contract until 2028-02-28 on a full-time basis. Start date according to agreement.

Application:

Welcome to register your application in our recruitment tool by 2019-07-26.

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

For work at our institutions, SiS conducts register checks before employment.

In connection with the recruitment process, the Swedish National Board of Institutional Care has taken a stance on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore expressly decline contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.

NOTE! 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.