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

SiS LVM-home Östfora in Järlåsa, northwest of Uppsala, receives men with alcohol, drug, or combined substance abuse, often combined with mental health issues. We have specialized competence in medical nursing and 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 role 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 of care and treatment work, you actively contribute to the implementation of treatment plans. Documentation is an important part of your job, contributing to legal certainty, 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 school attendance, cleaning, cooking, etc. Having a designated contact person is also one of your duties. The role 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 commitment, and our attitude.

As a new employee, you will undergo SiS's 10-week basic training. The course alternates between theory and supervised introduction, preparing you for the treatment role in SiS operations.

Working hours are during day and evening shifts, Monday-Sunday. Weekend work according to schedule, every third weekend.

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 share SiS's core values, 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 confident in yourself and easily build relationships with young people as well as with other staff members. You have good communication skills and can maintain your calm even in pressurized situations. You collaborate 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 higher education that we assess as equivalent
• Category B driver's license
• Good proficiency in Swedish, both spoken and written

The following are meritorious:

• Experience working with people in vulnerable life situations, e.g., work in psychiatry or LSS care
• Education in care and nursing
• Experience working with our target group: older men in substance abuse care

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 us on the page below:

https://www.stat-inst.se/jobba-hos-oss/medarbetarskap-och-ledarskap/ (https://www.stat-inst.se/jobba-hos-oss/medarbetarskap-och-ledarskap/)

Employment:

• The position is a permanent full-time employment starting with a six-month probation period. Start date as soon as possible.
• Selection and interviews may take place on an ongoing basis.
• To ensure your application can be assessed correctly, you must attach relevant educational documents with your application proving that you meet the requirements for the current position.
• Tests and work samples may be included in the recruitment process.

Welcome to register your application in our recruitment tool by 2026-06-28

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

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