Treatment Educator Making a Difference

The Swedish Prison and Probation Service (SiS) is a government agency responsible for individually tailored compulsory care for young people with complex psychosocial issues and for adults with substance abuse problems. SiS also manages closed youth detention. We operate youth facilities and homes for adults with substance abuse issues throughout the country. Working at SiS, your professional life becomes an exciting challenge. Regardless of where in our organization you work or what position you hold, you help create vital change. SiS youth facility Margretelund receives non-compulsory school-age girls and boys with psychosocial problems, criminal behavior, and substance abuse. We have operations in Lidköping and near Falköping. Job Description Do you want to be part of creating vital change for vulnerable people? Then working as a Treatment Educator at SiS is a meaningful challenge. As a Treatment Educator, you work in a team together with treatment assistants and treatment coordinators, and together you are responsible for ensuring that the young people and clients living with us receive the security, 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 of care and treatment work, you actively contribute to the implementation of treatment plans. Documentation is an important part of your work and contributes to legal security, planning, and monitoring of our activities. You help maintain security according to our procedures and contribute to ensuring that daily life runs smoothly with school, cleaning, cooking, and more. Contact person work is also one of your responsibilities. The work may also include mentoring new employees and interns. This is a job 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 attitudes. Working hours are scheduled including days, evenings, and weekends. As a new employee, you will complete SiS basic training over 10 weeks. The training combines theory with supervised introduction and equips you for the treatment role in SiS operations. Qualifications To succeed in your work, you have a firmly grounded positive view of people. You are motivated to help people in vulnerable life situations and you share SiS values—to be a place for change. Furthermore, you have a strong ability to create engagement and participation among our young people. As a person, you are confident and find it easy to build relationships with young people as well as with other staff members. You have good communication skills and can remain calm even in pressured situations. You work well with others and can handle conflicts constructively. You must also have: Diploma from a 2-year post-secondary education at a folk high school or vocational school (KY/YH) with a focus on social/educational treatment work or education from a higher education institution that we assess as equivalent Class B driver's license Good Swedish in speech and writing It is also meriting if you have: Experience working with people in vulnerable life situations, such as work in psychiatry or LSS care Experience from client-facing positions in the Swedish Prison and Probation Service, such as corrections officer Security guard training Education in care and nursing Experience working with our target group At SiS, we value good collaboration. This means that as an employee, you 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 employment and begins with a six-month probation period. Start date by agreement. Application: Please indicate in your application whether you are primarily interested in working with MBB or treatment. You are also welcome to indicate if you are interested in both focus areas. We welcome you to register your application in our recruitment tool by September 9 at the latest. SiS actively works against all forms of discrimination and welcomes all applicants. For work at our institutions, SiS conducts background checks before employment. In connection with our recruitment work, the Swedish Prison and Probation Service has determined recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore firmly decline contact from media sales representatives, recruitment websites, 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.

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