Treatment Assistant/Educator Contributing to Life-Changing Care

Description:

The Swedish Prison and Probation Service (SiS) is a government agency responsible for individualized compulsory care for youth with complex psychosocial problems and adults with substance abuse issues. SiS also manages closed youth care. We operate youth homes and facilities for adults with substance abuse issues throughout the country. At SiS, your work life becomes an exciting challenge. Regardless of where in our organization you work or what position you hold, you contribute to creating life-changing care. SiS Youth Home Sundbo, located outside Fagersta, receives non-compulsory school-age boys with psychosocial problems, criminal behavior, and substance abuse issues. We are tasked with providing care for youth with special care needs and receive boys sentenced to closed youth care (LSU). Job Description We are expanding and looking for more staff! Do you want to be part of creating life-changing care for vulnerable people? Then the position as treatment assistant/treatment educator at SiS is a meaningful challenge! As a treatment assistant/treatment educator, you work in a team and together you are responsible for ensuring that the youth 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 motivational work 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 monitoring of our operations. You help maintain security according to our procedures and assist in ensuring daily routines run smoothly with schooling, cleaning, meal preparation, and more. Primary contact work is also one of your responsibilities. The work may also include mentoring new employees and interns. This is a job for someone who sees 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. Work hours are scheduled shifts including days, evenings, and weekends. As a new employee, you will participate in SiS basic training for 10 weeks. The training combines theory with guided introduction and equips you for the treatment role in SiS operations. Qualifications To succeed in your work, you have a solid positive view of people. You are motivated to help people in vulnerable life situations and share SiS values of being a place for change. Furthermore, you have a strong ability to create engagement and participation among our youth. As a person, you are confident and find it easy to build relationships with youth as well as other team members. You have good communication skills and can remain calm even in stressful situations. You work well with others and can handle conflicts constructively. As a treatment assistant, you must have: Completed upper secondary education Experience working with people in vulnerable life situations, for example in psychiatry, residential care facilities, or care and social services B-category driver's license Good Swedish language skills, both spoken and written For employment as a treatment educator, you must also have: A degree from a 2-year post-secondary education at a folk high school or vocational college (KY/YH) with a focus on social/pedagogical treatment work or education from higher education deemed equivalent Meriting factors: Experience from client-facing positions at the Swedish Prison and Probation Service, e.g., as a probation officer Experience from client-facing positions at the Swedish Migration Agency, e.g., case officer at the detention facility Experience working with our target group At SiS, we value good teamwork. This means you as an employee take responsibility for your work, contribute to development, and participate in good cooperation. Read more at https://www.stat-inst.se/jobba-hos-oss/medarbetarskap-och-ledarskap/. Employment: The position is a permanent full-time role with a six-month probationary period. Start date by agreement. Application: Welcome to register your application in our recruitment tool by August 16. Selection and interviews may take place on a rolling basis. SiS actively works against all forms of discrimination and welcomes all applicants. For work at our institutions, SiS conducts background checks before employment. Regarding the recruitment process, the Swedish Prison and Probation Service has made decisions about recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore firmly decline contact from media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar. NOTE! 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 ad.The Swedish Prison and Probation Service (SiS) is a government agency responsible for individualized compulsory care for youth with complex psychosocial problems and adults with substance abuse issues. SiS also manages closed youth care. We operate youth homes and facilities for adults with substance abuse issues throughout the country. At SiS, your work life becomes an exciting challenge. Regardless of where in our organization you work or what position you hold, you contribute to creating life-changing care. SiS Youth Home Sundbo, located outside Fagersta, receives non-compulsory…

Overview

Type

job

Status

active

Visibility

public

City

Ängelsberg

GPS

59.950336820441, 16.011665990301copyopen in

Email

Show email

Phone

Show phone

Published

20. 7. 2026

Edited

28. 7. 2026

Specifications