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Statens institutionsstyrelse (SiS) is a government agency responsible for providing individually adapted compulsory care for young people with complex psychosocial issues and for adults with substance abuse problems. SiS also implements closed youth care. We do this at youth homes and homes for adults with substance abuse issues across the country. Working with us at SiS makes your professional life an exciting challenge. Regardless of where you work within our organization or what role you hold, you help create life-changing change.

SiS Youth Home Långanäs receives boys who are not subject to compulsory schooling and who have psychosocial problems, criminal behavior, and substance abuse issues.

Job Description

Do you want to be part of creating life-changing 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 (boys not subject to compulsory schooling) living with us receive the security, care, and treatment they need. We often encounter people in crisis, which means you work with qualified care and motivational work and act as a support in daily life. With the support of your knowledge in care and treatment work, you actively contribute to the completion of treatment plans. Documentation is an important part of your work and contributes to legal certainty, planning, and follow-up of our operations. You contribute to maintaining security according to our routines and you help ensure that daily life runs smoothly with school attendance, cleaning, cooking, etc. Contact person responsibilities are also one of your tasks. 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.

In the recruitment films below, you can follow the lives of three fictional characters before SiS and then see how destructiveness is replaced by calm, a functioning daily life, and hope for a different future - https://www.stat-inst.se/jobba-hos-oss/nationell-rekryteringssatsning/rekryteringsfilmer/ (https://www.stat-inst.se/jobba-hos-oss/nationell-rekryteringssatsning/rekryteringsfilmer/)

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 you share SiS's value base, that 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 the rest of the staff group. You have good communication skills and can maintain your calm even in pressurized situations. You find it easy to cooperate with others and you can handle conflicts in a constructive way. To be employed by the agency as a Treatment Pedagogue, the following formal requirements apply:

• 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 education from a university that we assess as equivalent
• Class B driver's license
• Good Swedish in speech and writing

See also the link for education as a Treatment Pedagogue - https://www.stat-inst.se/jobba-hos-oss/du-som-ar-behandlingspedagog/din-utbildning/ (https://www.stat-inst.se/jobba-hos-oss/du-som-ar-behandlingspedagog/din-utbildning/)

Meritorious requirements:

• Experience working with people in vulnerable life situations, e.g., work within psychiatry or LSS care.
• Experience from client-facing positions at the Swedish Prison and Probation Service, e.g., Probation Officer
• Security guard training
• Experience working with our target group (e.g., substance abuse care, youth care, young boys, etc.)

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 permanent full-time employment and begins with a six-month probationary period. Start date by agreement.

We also have a 3-day introduction that needs to be completed before you as an employee can work client-facing as well as shadowing regular staff. As a new employee, you will also undergo SiS basic training for 10 weeks.

Working hours are according to schedule day - evening and weekend. Benefits according to collective agreement (https://www.stat-inst.se/jobba-hos-oss/formaner/ (https://www.stat-inst.se/jobba-hos-oss/formaner/))

Interviews and selection take place continuously. Upload updated CV, cover letter, and certificates from your education.

SiS actively works 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 State Institution Authority 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.