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Treatment Staff for Smultronbacken HVB

Social Workers, Treatment Pedagogues, Social Pedagogues, Behavioral Scientists, Special Educators, and Speech Therapists

About Smultronbacken HVB

Smultronbacken HVB is a home-like residential care facility (HVB) in eastern Gothenburg that receives children, primarily aged 10–13, who require treatment due to developed challenging behaviors.

The children may have few or no functional social relationships and a lack of trust in the adult world. Many have experiences of violence, either as witnesses or victims, or carry other traumatic experiences. Poor school attendance may occur but does not in itself constitute grounds for placement. The children may also have one or more functional variations.

The facility also accepts emergency placements while waiting for a permanent foster home to be offered.

Smultronbacken HVB started its operations in September 2023 and is now seeking more employees for day shifts, evenings, and weekends.

About the Role

As treatment staff, you work closely with the children in their daily lives and contribute to creating a safe, structured, and developmental environment.

The duties include, among other things:

• Treatment work with the children
• Planning and follow-up of interventions
• Child and parent meetings
• Observations and assessments
• Collaboration with social services and other professional actors
• Participation in meetings and network work
• Documentation and record keeping

A large part of the role consists of documentation, such as:

• Investigations/Assessments
• Summaries
• Journal notes
• Establishment and follow-up of implementation plans

You will also be involved in developing the operations, its routines, and working methods.

Our Operations and Methodology

At Smultronbacken, we work to provide children who need care outside the home with tools and conditions for a better life in the long term.

Our work is based on:

• A safe and structured environment
• High level of care
• Predictability and clarity
• Credible relationships with safe adults
• Individualized interventions

The following methods and working approaches are used in the operations:

• Structured conversation therapy
• Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
• Low-Affect Approach (LAB)
• Child's Needs in Focus (BBIC)
• Clarifying Pedagogy
• Environmental Therapy

The work is based on an environmental therapeutic approach where positive behaviors are reinforced and where structure, pedagogy, and conversation therapy work together to create development. All interventions are carried out based on the child's implementation plan and in accordance with BBIC.

We also work with activities that strengthen the children's self-esteem, curiosity, and sense of achievement, for example:

• Individual and communal gardening
• Visits to experience-adapted environments
• Creative creation in the studio
• Storytime
• Everyday and household-related activities

We are looking for you who

You want to make a real difference in children's lives and are motivated by working closely with children with complex needs.

We believe that you:

• Work independently and take responsibility for your tasks
• Have a good ability to follow decisions, guidelines, and routines
• Can make independent decisions when the situation requires it
• Have a pedagogical and clear approach
• Communicate simply and respectfully with both children and adults
• Have experience working with the target group
• Are calm and secure even in complex and challenging situations
• Are curious, receptive, and relationship-building
• Have good collaboration skills and thrive in collaboration with other professions
• Have experience in psychosocial work and authority exercises

Personal suitability is given great weight.

Qualifications (Requirements)

• Post-secondary education as a social worker, social pedagogue, treatment pedagogue, behavioral scientist, or other education that the employer considers equivalent.
• Experience in psychosocial work with the target group.
• Good ability to document and express yourself in speech and writing in Swedish.

Special educators and speech therapists are particularly welcome to apply as the facility works actively to develop the children's communication and adapt the environment based on individual conditions.

Merits

• Category B driver's license
• Experience from HVB operations
• Experience in authority exercises
• Education and/or practical experience within:
• Structured conversation therapy
• Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
• Low-Affect Approach (LAB)
• Child's Needs in Focus (BBIC)
• Clarifying Pedagogy
• Environmental Therapy

We Offer

• A creative work environment with great opportunities to influence and develop the operations
• Competence development and further education
• Regular supervision
• Competitive salary
• Health allowance up to 5,000 SEK per year
• A culture characterized by curiosity, engagement, and participation

Terms of Employment

• Scheduled night shifts according to a 5-2 schedule.
• Irregular working hours occur
• On-call and standby duties may be included in the position
• Operational responsibility may occur as needed
• A six-month probation period applies

About the Employer

Smultronbacken HVB is owned and operated by Areso Vård och Omsorg AB and has a permit from the Inspectorate of Care and Support (IVO).

Application

Welcome to submit your application by June 14, 2026. Selection and interviews are conducted continuously, so do not wait to send in your application.

Before an employment offer is made, extracts from the suspicion and criminal records will be requested.

Applications should be sent to: [email protected]

We kindly but firmly decline offers regarding advertising and recruitment assistance.

Welcome with your application!