Treatment Assistants Hourly Temporary Position SiS Långanäs, Eksjö

Statens Institutionsstyrelse · Contract

Långanäs 1, Eksjö, Sweden

The Swedish Prison and Probation Service (Statens institutionsstyrelse, SiS) is an agency responsible for individually tailored compulsory care for youth with complex psychosocial issues and adults with substance abuse problems. SiS also carries out closed youth care. We do this at youth homes and facilities for adults with substance abuse problems throughout the country. Working at SiS offers you an exciting professional challenge. Regardless of where in our organization you work or what position you hold, you help create vital change. SiS youth home Långanäs accepts non-compulsory school age boys with psychosocial issues, criminal behavior, and substance abuse problems. Job Description Do you want to be part of creating vital change for vulnerable people? Then working as a treatment assistant at SiS is a meaningful challenge. We are currently recruiting hourly temporary staff at SiS Långanäs! As a treatment assistant, you work in a team with treatment educators and treatment coordinators, and together you are responsible for ensuring that the youth (non-compulsory school age boys) living with us receive the safety, care, and treatment they need. We often work with people in crisis, which means you work with qualified care and motivation efforts and provide daily support. With your knowledge of care and treatment work, you actively contribute to implementing treatment plans. Documentation is an important part of your work and contributes to legal security, planning, and follow-up of our operations. You help maintain safety according to our procedures and contribute to ensuring daily routines run smoothly with schooling, cleaning, cooking, and more. Contact person responsibilities are also part of your duties. This is a job for someone who sees a positive challenge in working with vulnerable people in difficult life situations. The work is often demanding but also stimulating, rewarding, and varied. Our vision is to be a place for change, which is reflected in our approach, commitment, and attitude. In the recruitment films below, you can follow three fictional people's lives before SiS and then see how destructive behavior is replaced with calm, a functioning everyday 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 a strong ability to create engagement and participation. Equally important is that you have a solid positive view of people, strong empathetic ability, and the 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 willingly share your knowledge with colleagues. Qualifications: At least a 2-year post-secondary education from a folk high school or vocational school (KY/YH) or equivalent education. The education should be focused on social work, social pedagogy, behavioral science, or another relevant subject area. - Exceptions to the requirement for at least two years of post-secondary education can be made in individual cases if there are special reasons according to Section 5, Chapter 4 of the Social Services Ordinance (2025:468). Class B driver's license Good Swedish in speech and writing Meritorious qualifications: Experience from client-facing positions at the Swedish Correctional Service, e.g., Correctional Officer Security guard training Experience from client-facing positions at the Swedish Migration Agency, e.g., handler at the Detention Unit Education in care and health services Experience working with our target group (e.g., substance abuse care, youth care, young boys) At SiS, we value good employee engagement. This means that as an employee, you take responsibility for your work, contribute to development, and participate in good collaboration. Learn more at https://www.stat-inst.se/jobba-hos-oss/medarbetarskap-och-ledarskap/. Employment: This position is a temporary contract for hourly staff. We also provide 3 days of introduction that must be completed before you can work directly with clients, plus shadowing with regular staff. Work hours are scheduled day, evening, and weekend shifts as well as nights. Benefits according to collective agreement (https://www.stat-inst.se/jobba-hos-oss/formaner/) Interviews and selection are ongoing. 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 connection with our recruitment work, the Swedish Prison and Probation Service has made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore firmly 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 advertisement.