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The Swedish National Board of Institutional Care (SiS) is an agency responsible for individualized 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 in youth homes and homes for adults with substance abuse issues across the country. At SiS, your working life becomes an exciting challenge. No matter where you work in our organization or what position you hold, you help create life-changing change.

SiS Youth Home Råby receives both girls and boys. We have both closed and open places for closed youth care as well as treatment places for young people placed under the Act on Special Provisions on Care of Young Persons (LVU).

Job Description

Do you care about young people and want to work at a school with a good atmosphere, high quality, and joy of work? Now is your chance to influence students' future and education in a creative and enabling school environment. We are now looking for a Study and Career Counselor for SiS Youth Home Råby in Lund.

The students placed at the units are not subject to compulsory schooling. They study within the framework of the introduction program; individual alternative, but there may also be students subject to compulsory schooling as well as students within the framework of adapted school. Many of the students have had difficulties in schoolwork and have a great need to compensate for a lack of schooling. All students have an individual study plan where, together with a mentor and a study and career counselor, goals are set and compulsory school and/or upper secondary school subjects are read based on their needs. The teaching is conducted full-time in smaller teaching groups.

As a study and career counselor, your main task is to guide students towards further studies, internships, or alternative paths into working life. Some administrative tasks related to the students' continuous schooling may also occur. The work also involves supervising and leading teacher groups in matters concerning education, working life, and society within the framework of general study and career guidance.

The SYV position involves collaboration both within SiS and with other professions around the students within social services and education administration, where the students' right to education is central. As a study and career counselor, you contribute to enabling continuity in the students' schooling both when they are placed, during their stay, and when they move out of SiS. At the youth home, there are several complementary competencies, and as a study and career counselor, you are part of a cross-professional and joint work around the young people. Collaboration with, for example, nurses, treatment pedagogues, and psychologists, etc., is therefore an important part of your tasks. To thrive in the role, it is important that you are flexible and have good communication skills.

Qualifications

Requirements

• Are educated and experienced as a study and career counselor from the later years of primary school/upper secondary school
• Have experience with students in need of support
• Are well-versed in the rules of upper secondary school as well as relevant laws and regulations, including GY25 and other relevant steering documents
• Have good computer skills and experience with information retrieval
• Want to develop the counseling work at the youth home in collaboration with others

Meritorious

• Experience from introduction programs and/or special teaching groups
• Work with young people in institutional care
• Good knowledge of different educational paths within adult education

You need to be motivated by encouraging and building trusting pedagogical relationships with students with psychosocial issues and in criminality. It is important that you can identify and meet the students with high realistic expectations and support the student in finding their goal and showing their possible paths that lead there. You are flexible, receptive, and understand that there may be obstacles while having the ability to see new opportunities for the student. You have faith that all students can find a path to education and work.

You are secure, unpretentious, stable, can set and maintain boundaries in a respectful way, and are calm even in stressful situations. You have good cooperation skills, high social competence, and a positive view of students. You also understand the importance of adapting to changed circumstances and see the benefits of changes.

You are proactive and participate in development work to achieve the school's goals and always take responsibility for your tasks by planning, organizing, and prioritizing the work in an efficient manner. The work requires that you have good ability to express yourself orally and in writing and that you consider adapting communication depending on the recipient.

The position is a holiday service with statutory holiday, which corresponds to 40 hours per work week for a position with a scope of 100%.

We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

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 position and begins with a six-month probationary period. Start date according to agreement.

Benefits according to the state wage agreement.

Application:

Register your application in our recruitment tool by June 26, 2028.

Interviews are conducted continuously.

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.

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