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About the Swedish Prison and Probation Service

The Swedish Prison and Probation Service is growing – we are building new facilities, renovating, and expanding, and are now looking for more employees. Our most important goal is to reduce recidivism – to break the vicious cycle. If we succeed, society will become safer and more secure for everyone. We are the agency responsible for prisons, probation, remand prisons, and client transport.

Description

The Business Area (VO) Tillberga consists of a prison with 247 places in security class 3. The prison offers an attractive environment with a well-functioning program activity and valuable employment through the house factory that engages the clients. There are approximately 100 employees, the majority of whom are prison officers, but the staff also includes cooks, production managers, program managers, nurses, and others. The prison is located in Tillberga, just north of Västerås, and is led by a Prison Director together with five prison inspectors.

Job Description

Do you want to contribute to a safer and more secure society?

As a prison officer at the facility, you are an important part of the security work and work together with other professional groups to maintain a safe, secure, and structured operation. This position is particularly focused on execution planning and involves combining security-related tasks with administrative duties and qualified client contacts.

The role includes planning and monitoring clients' execution of sentences, working with preparations for release, discharge measures, and permission matters, and contributing to ensuring that clients receive clear and realistic planning during their time in prison. The work also involves documentation, collaboration with internal and external actors, and a structured approach where risk assessment, security awareness, and lawful handling are central components.

A key part of the role is conversations with clients. These conversations may concern boundary setting, taking responsibility, and creating motivation for change and a life without crime. Therefore, you must be able to combine clarity and integrity with a professional attitude, where you can both set boundaries and support the client in working towards a successful release.

It is important that you share the Swedish Prison and Probation Service's fundamental values regarding a human view of humanity, respect for the individual, and the belief that people can develop and change.

The probationary period begins with a three-week introduction at the Tillberga prison. After a few months of service, we will schedule when you are to begin the Swedish Prison and Probation Service's mandatory basic training. The training lasts eight weeks and takes place during paid working hours. Assessment is ongoing before the probationary period transitions to a permanent position after six months.

Qualifications

Your personal qualities are important. As a prison officer, you need to be secure, stable, have good self-awareness, sound judgment, and integrity. Together with your colleagues, you drive the operation, so you need good teamwork skills and clear communication. You must be able to act physically when required.

For us, it is important that you share the Swedish Prison and Probation Service's fundamental values regarding a human view of humanity, respect for the individual, and the belief in human will and ability to develop. You are also aware of and understand how background, culture, and group affiliation affect yourself and others. Furthermore, you are expected to contribute through your attitude that everyone is treated equally. We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

We are looking for someone who has:

• A completed upper secondary education or other education combined with work experience that the Swedish Prison and Probation Service deems relevant
• Work experience, including seasonal work, hourly employment, or self-employment. Internships and volunteer work are not considered equivalent to employment
• Good knowledge of the Swedish language, both spoken and written
• Good computer skills

The following are also meritorious:

• Work experience from the prison and probation service, security work, social care, psychiatry, or healthcare and social care
• Knowledge in relevant areas, such as behavioral science, criminology, psychiatry, law, and conflict management
• Category B driver's license
• Relevant language skills

Other Information

The Swedish Prison and Probation Service has chosen to remove the personal cover letter and replaced it with selection questions relevant to the position. Answers to the selection questions and the CV form the basis for determining if you are qualified to proceed in the process.

To be considered for employment within the Swedish Prison and Probation Service, you must meet high requirements regarding suitability, judgment, security and confidentiality awareness, and compliance with current laws. This means you stand up for democratic values and the state values that apply to the Swedish Prison and Probation Service's operations.

Certain positions are placed in security classes, and a security investigation with register check will be conducted before a decision on employment is made. For some security-classed positions, Swedish citizenship is required. The Swedish Prison and Probation Service welcomes applicants with different backgrounds and experiences. Read more about security investigations here: https://www.kriminalvarden.se/jobba-hos-oss/rekryteringsprocessen/sakerhetsprovning-vid-rekrytering/ (https://www.kriminalvarden.se/jobba-hos-oss/rekryteringsprocessen/sakerhetsprovning-vid-rekrytering/)

The position may involve war-time placement within the Swedish Prison and Probation Service. Read more about war-time placement here: https://www.kriminalvarden.se/jobba-hos-oss/rekryteringsprocessen/krigsplacering/ (https://www.kriminalvarden.se/jobba-hos-oss/rekryteringsprocessen/krigsplacering/)

Individual salary setting applies.

Probationary employment may be applied.

The Swedish Prison and Probation Service strives for a balanced gender distribution and increased diversity.

To submit your application, click the application link in the advertisement. Questions about how to apply and upload your CV should be directed directly to Varbi. Questions about specific jobs are answered by the contact person specified in the advertisement.

We kindly but firmly decline direct contact from staffing and recruitment agencies as well as sellers of recruitment advertisements. The Swedish Prison and Probation Service has procured agreements.