Treatment Assistants at SiS Långanäs Youth Home, Eksjö

STATENS INSTITUTIONSSTYRELSE · Full-time

Långanäs 1, Långanäs, Sweden

The Swedish Prison and Probation Service (Statens institutionsstyrelse, SiS) is a government agency responsible for individualized forced care for young people with complex psychosocial problems and for adults with substance abuse issues. SiS also carries out secure youth care. We do this at youth homes and facilities for adults with substance abuse throughout the country. At SiS, your work life will be an exciting challenge. Regardless of where in our organization you work or what position you have, you help create vital change. SiS youth home Långanäs receives non-school-age boys with psychosocial problems, criminal behavior, and substance abuse issues. Job Description Do you want to be part of creating vital change for vulnerable people? Then the position as treatment assistant at SiS is a meaningful challenge. As a treatment assistant, you work in a team together with treatment pedagogues and treatment coordinators, and together you are responsible for ensuring that the young people (non-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 care and motivation work and provide support in daily life. With support from your knowledge in care and treatment work, you actively contribute to treatment plans being fulfilled. Documentation is an important part of your work and contributes to legal security, planning, and monitoring of our operations. You contribute to maintaining security according to our procedures and help ensure that daily life runs smoothly with schooling, cleaning, cooking, and more. Being a contact person is also one of your tasks. Your work may also include acting as a mentor to new employees and interns. This is work for you if you see a positive challenge in working with vulnerable people in difficult life situations. The job is often demanding but also stimulating, rewarding, 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 three fictional people's lives before SiS and then see how destructiveness is replaced with calmness, a functioning daily life, and hope for a different future - https://www.stat-inst.se/jobba-hos-oss/nationell-rekryteringssatsning/rekryteringsfilmer/ Qualifications: Your personal suitability is key to vital change. Therefore, you need to have a good ability to create commitment and participation. Equally important is that you have a well-founded positive view of people, great empathetic ability, and an ability to build good relationships. You have good communication skills and can remain calm even in pressured situations. You also have the ability to collaborate with others and enjoy sharing your knowledge with colleagues. Qualifications: At least a 2-year post-secondary education from a folk high school or vocational college (KY/YH) or equivalent education. The education should be focused on social work, social pedagogy, behavioral science, or other relevant subject area. - 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). B-category driver's license Good Swedish in speech and writing Meritorious qualifications: Experience from client-facing positions in the Correctional Service, e.g., Correctional Officer Security guard training Experience from client-facing positions at the Migration Agency, e.g., handler at the Detention Unit Education in care and social services Experience working with our target group (e.g., substance abuse care, youth care, young boys) At SiS, we value good collegial relationships. This means that as an employee, you take responsibility for your work, contribute to development, and participate in good cooperation. Learn more at https://www.stat-inst.se/jobba-hos-oss/medarbetarskap-och-ledarskap/. Employment: The position is a permanent full-time employment 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 with clients, plus shadowing with regular staff. As a new employee, you will also complete SiS basic training lasting 10 weeks. Working hours are scheduled day, evening, and weekend shifts. Benefits according to collective agreement (https://www.stat-inst.se/jobba-hos-oss/formaner/) Interviews and selection take place on an ongoing basis. During the summer period, selection and feedback may take somewhat longer. SiS actively works against all forms of discrimination and welcomes all applicants. For work at our institutions, SiS conducts a background check before employment. In preparing the recruitment process, the Swedish Prison and Probation Service has determined recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore strongly decline contact from media sales representatives, recruitment sites, and similar. IMPORTANT! If you have protected personal information, you should not apply through the recruitment system. Instead, contact the person listed as the contact person in the job posting.