About the Organization
State Institutional Care Authority, SiS, is a government agency responsible for individually adapted compulsory care for young people and adults with substance abuse. SiS also performs closed youth care. We do this at youth homes and homes for adults with substance abuse throughout the country. At SiS, your working 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 home Gudhemsgården receives non-school-age boys with psychosocial problems, criminality, and substance abuse. SiS Youth Home Gudhemsgården has just undergone an organizational change, from LVM care to LVU care, and is now in an exciting build-up phase. Currently, the institution consists of four units but will expand to five units with a total of 31 places during the coming year.
Job Description
Do you want to work with young people in critical developmental phases of life? Young people who have lost their way and need help finding their way forward. We offer work with highly varied tasks and challenges. You will meet all types of personalities, psychological problems, and neuropsychiatric disabilities. You will encounter substance abuse and criminality, but you will also meet the person behind the diagnosis and behavioral problem. This is much of the satisfaction in the work: following a young person's development from hopelessness and acting out in a life-determining process toward a more dignified life with housing, relationships, education, and work.
We are now expanding our quality unit with a treatment secretary; we are looking for someone like you who wants to participate, influence, and make a difference. As a treatment secretary at Gudhemsgården, you are part of the quality unit; you will be one of five treatment secretaries. We offer an interesting and pleasant workplace with varied and stimulating work tasks. As a treatment secretary, you are an active part of the interdisciplinary team. The team carries out dynamic work on target group assessments by working with structured risk, needs, and responsiveness assessments. You are also responsible for ensuring that young people receive appropriate interventions in accordance with the assignment, develop treatment plans, and work to make the young person involved in their treatment. The treatment secretary follows up on treatment goals and follows up on the documentation of interventions. The treatment secretary convenes and leads meetings around the young person's placement and is a central part of leading the work with care interventions. The work is carried out in collaboration with the placing municipalities' social services and the institution's various expert functions such as psychologists, teachers, special educators, nurses, and treatment educators. An important part of your position includes guidance and coaching for care staff in their daily work and ensuring that documentation is carried out in accordance with guidelines.
The work is varied and demands flexibility and responsibility. It means in extensive parts that you are a structure bearer, meticulous and organized. You understand the value and context of collaboration; it is natural for you to guide and support your colleagues. You are the initiator who anchors and implements decisions.
Gudhemsgården currently has two treatment units for non-school-age boys and two assessment units MBB – Reception and Needs Assessment, where the focus is to stabilize the young person's situation and well-being and stop criminality, substance abuse, or other socially destructive behavior.
You will have primary responsibility for planning for young people in one of our units.
Qualifications
Relevant academic education as a social worker or other behavioral science education that the employer deems equivalent and comprising at least 180 credits.
Documented experience of independent planning work and, if possible, leadership experience to implement planned interventions together with other professional groups.
Experience working with young people and/or institutional care is meritorious, as is training in structured risk and needs assessment instruments.
Qualifications Your personal suitability is the key to being able to influence and create change. Therefore, we are looking for someone who has the ability to build alliances with young people, families, and networks. You have a positive view of human nature and your driving force is to work with people in vulnerable situations. You share SiS' value base of being a place for change, and your approach and demeanor are characterized by our core values of Respect, Care, and Clarity. The role requires a personal maturity that helps you inspire both hope and confidence, while also having the ability to highlight the difficulties in young people's families and networks to contribute to change. You have pedagogical ability and can act as a positive role model. You work well with other people and enjoy sharing your knowledge with colleagues. As a person, you are interested in driving and developing care for young people, stay informed about current research, and are able to handle complex tasks. You must also be able to handle stressful situations, have the courage to set boundaries, and be consistent.
At SiS, we care about good collegial relationships. This means that as an employee, you take responsibility for your work, contribute to development, and participate in good collaboration. Read more at https://www.stat-inst.se/jobba-hos-oss/medarbetarskap-och-ledarskap/.
Employment:
The position is a permanent full-time appointment and begins with a six-month probationary period. Start date by agreement. Selection and interviews will take place on an ongoing basis during the recruitment process.
SiS actively works against all forms of discrimination and welcomes all applicants.
For work at our institutions, SiS conducts a background check before employment.
Before beginning the recruitment process, the State Institutional Care Authority has made a decision regarding recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore firmly decline contact from media sales representatives, recruitment websites, and similar parties.
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 advertisement.About the Organization
State Institutional Care Authority, SiS, is a government agency responsible for individually adapted compulsory care for young people and adults with substance abuse. SiS also performs closed youth care. We do this at youth homes and homes for adults with substance abuse throughout the country. At SiS, your working 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 home Gudhemsgården receives non-school-age boys with psychosocial problems, criminality, and substance…