Vacant job

The State Board of Institutional Care (SiS) is a government agency responsible for providing individually adapted involuntary care for young people with complex psychosocial issues and for adults with substance abuse problems. SiS also operates 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. Regardless of where you work in our organization or what position you hold, you help create life-changing change.

SiS LVM-home Hessleby, located in a beautiful forest setting just outside Mariannelund, admits men with alcohol, drug, or poly-substance abuse. We have specialized competence in receiving clients with mental health issues or aggressive behavior. Our mandate is to provide care for clients with special care needs.

Job Description

Do you want to help make a life-changing difference for vulnerable people? Then the position of Treatment Coordinator at SiS is a meaningful job. The starting point of our treatment work is to motivate people to new and less destructive ways of living. You work in a team of dedicated colleagues, and with your combined competence, you have the opportunity to achieve good results. As a Treatment Coordinator, you will plan, implement, and follow up on program activities. You will conduct treatment sessions and have special responsibility for documentation and the forms and instruments used in treatment. An important shared task for all employees is to contribute to creating a safe environment and ensuring that security on the institution is maintained according to routines. 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.

Working hours are scheduled: day/evening/weekend.

Qualifications

Your personal suitability is key to life-changing change. Therefore, you need to have a good ability to create engagement and involvement. Equally important is that you have a solid positive view of humanity, are empathetic, and can build good relationships. You have good communication skills and can maintain your calm even in pressurized situations. You also have a good ability to collaborate with others and are willing to share your knowledge with colleagues. In your role as Treatment Coordinator, you will have individual responsibility for several interventions in the treatment plan as well as responsibility on the ward that requires experience and the ability to coordinate the work. You need to be good at planning and structuring your work, able to work independently, and take initiative. Since the treatment work is documented and discussed with several different actors, high demands are placed on good Swedish language skills in both speech and writing.

You must also have:

• Appropriate higher education, such as social work, social pedagogy, or other health/behavioral science education, alternatively post-secondary education such as treatment pedagogy, with substantial experience in program activities.
• Experience in conducting motivational and treatment work individually and/or in groups.
• Good Swedish language skills in speech and writing.
• Category B driver's license.

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 positions are permanent full-time positions and begin with a six-month probation period. Start date by agreement.

Application:

You are welcome to register your application in our recruitment tool by August 26, 2016.

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 State 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.

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.