Treatment Educator - Open Unit at SiS Långanäs Youth Home

Statens Institutionsstyrelse · Full-time

Långanäs 1, Eksjö, Sweden

State Institution Board, SiS, is an authority responsible for individualized coercive care for young people with complex psychosocial problems and for adults with substance abuse issues. SiS also implements closed youth care. We do this at youth homes and facilities for adults with substance abuse issues 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 hold, you help create vital change. SiS youth home Långanäs receives non-school-age boys with psychosocial problems, criminality, and substance abuse issues. 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 (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 motivational work and provide support in daily life. With your knowledge of care and treatment work, you actively contribute to ensuring treatment plans are carried out. 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 routines and participate in ensuring that daily life runs smoothly with schooling, cleaning, cooking, and more. Being a contact person 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 a difficult life situation. The job is often demanding but also stimulating, joyful, and varied. Right now we are expanding and preparing for the future! You may have noticed that we are more visible than usual and have many job postings open right now? That's because we are making a major and long-awaited investment. We are increasing our base staffing to create even safer teams, we are also planning to open a completely new open unit and are implementing a well-planned transition program for our young people. To succeed with this, we need more engaged colleagues. In this role, you will primarily work at our new open unit as soon as it opens. Before the new unit is fully operational, the position initially involves being flexible to work at our closed units, which also provides you with valuable introduction to our entire operations. Our vision is to be a place for change and this permeates our approach, our commitment, and our perspective. In the recruitment videos below, you can follow three fictional people's lives before SiS and then see how destructiveness is replaced by calmness, a functioning everyday life, and hope for a different future - https://www.stat-inst.se/jobba-hos-oss/nationell-rekryteringssatsning/rekryteringsfilmer/ Qualifications 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 a university that we deem equivalent B-class driver's license Good Swedish in speech and writing See also the link for education as a treatment educator - https://www.stat-inst.se/jobba-hos-oss/du-som-ar-behandlingspedagog/din-utbildning/ Meritorious qualifications: Experience working with people in vulnerable life situations, for example, work in psychiatry or LSS care. Experience from client-facing positions at the Prison and Probation Service, for example, as a Correctional Officer Security Guard certification Experience working with our target group (e.g., substance abuse care, youth care, young boys, etc.) 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. Read more about 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 3 days of introduction that need to be completed before you as an employee can work directly with clients, as well as shadowing with regular staff. As a new employee, you will also undergo SiS basic training for 10 weeks. Working hours are according to schedule: day, evening, and weekend shifts. Benefits according to collective agreement (https://www.stat-inst.se/jobba-hos-oss/formaner/) Interviews and selection are ongoing. Selection and feedback may take longer during the summer period. 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 process, the State Institution Board has made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore firmly decline contact from media sales representatives, recruitment sites, and similar. NOTE! If you have protected personal data, you should not apply through the recruitment system. Instead, contact the person listed as the contact person in the job posting.