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Statens institutionsstyrelse (SiS) is a government agency responsible for 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 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 Ljungaskog receives non-compulsory school-age girls with psychosocial issues, substance abuse, and self-harm problems. The institution is tasked with providing care for girls with special care needs.

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 and clients living with us receive the safety, care, and treatment they need. We often meet people in crisis, which means you work with qualified nursing 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, 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, cleaning, cooking, etc. Contact person duties are also one of your tasks. The work may also include 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.

As a new employee, you will undergo SiS basic training for 10 weeks. The training alternates between theory and supervised introduction, equipping you for the treatment role in SiS operations.

Qualifications for Treatment Pedagogue

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 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 pressured situations. You find it easy to cooperate with others and can handle conflicts in a constructive way.

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 education from a university that we assess as equivalent
• B driver's license
• Good Swedish 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/).

Qualifications for Treatment Assistant

You must also have:

• Completed upper secondary education
• Experience working with people in vulnerable life situations, e.g., work in psychiatry or within LSS care
• B driver's license
• Good Swedish in speech and writing

Employment:

The position is a part-time night shift. The scope is 85%.

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

We apply ongoing recruitment.

Application:

Register your application in our recruitment tool by July 2nd.

Union Representatives:

OFR/S: Cecilia Hyberg, [email protected]

SEKO: Rita Nilsson, [email protected]

SACO S: Henrik Isgren, 0104534023, [email protected]

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 National Board of Institutional Care has taken a stance on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore explicitly 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.