Vacant job

The Swedish National Board of Institutional Care (SiS) is an authority responsible for individually tailored involuntary 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. Working at SiS turns your professional life into an exciting challenge. Regardless of where you work within our organization or what position you hold, you help create life-changing change.

SiS Youth Home Långanäs receives non-compulsory school-age boys with psychosocial problems, criminality, and substance abuse.

Job Description

Do you want to be part of creating life-changing changes for vulnerable people? Then the job as a Treatment Assistant at SiS is a meaningful challenge.

As a Treatment Assistant, you work in a team together with treatment educators and treatment coordinators, and together you are responsible for ensuring that the young people (non-compulsory school-age boys) 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 fulfillment of treatment plans. Documentation is an important part of your job and contributes to legal certainty, planning, and follow-up of our operations. You contribute to maintaining safety according to our procedures and help ensure that daily life flows smoothly with school attendance, cleaning, cooking, etc. Contact person duties 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 commitment, 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:

Your personal suitability is the key to life-changing change. Therefore, you need to have a good ability to create engagement and participation. Equally important is that you have a solid positive view of people, great empathetic ability, and the ability to build good relationships. You have good communication skills and can maintain your calm even in pressurized situations. You also have the ability to collaborate with others and are happy to share your knowledge with colleagues.

• At least a 2-year post-secondary education from a folk high school or university college (KY/YH) or other education corresponding to this. The education should be focused on social work, social pedagogy, behavioral science, or other relevant subject areas. Exceptions to the requirement of at least two years of post-secondary education can be made in individual cases if there are special reasons according to Chapter 5, Section 4 of the Social Services Ordinance (2025:468).
• Category B driver's license
• Good Swedish in speech and writing

Meritorious requirements:

• Experience from client-facing positions at the Swedish Prison and Probation Service, e.g., Prison Officer
• Guard training
• Experience from client-facing positions at the Migration Agency, e.g., case officer at the Detention Center
• Education in care and nursing
• Experience working with our target group (e.g., addiction care, youth care, young boys)

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 collaboration. 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 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. During the summer period, selection and feedback will take slightly longer.

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

For work at our institutions, SiS conducts register checks before employment.

In preparation for the recruitment process, the Swedish National Board of Institutional Care has taken a stand 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.