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About the Swedish Prison and Probation Service The Swedish Prison and Probation Service is growing – we are building new facilities, renovating, and expanding, and we are now seeking more employees. Our most important goal is to reduce recidivism – to break the cycle of crime. If we succeed, society becomes safer and more secure for everyone. We are the authority responsible for correctional facilities, probation services, remand prisons, and inmate transports. About the Workplace The Stockholm West operations area in the beautiful Ekerö Municipality includes the open correctional facility Svartsjö, the partially open women's facility Färingsö, and the remand prison Färingsö. Approximately 170 employees and ten managers administer, lead, and develop the operations, which receive about 270 inmates. The largest professional group is correctional officers, but the facility also employs healthcare professionals, administrative staff, educators, production managers, and others. Inmates are engaged in education, various treatment programs, or woodwork, crafts, manufacturing, and assembly. The inmates also operate an ecological farm with grain cultivation and animal husbandry. The two facilities are within walking distance of each other and are accessible by bus or car. At both facilities, you park free of charge in our staff parking. Job Responsibilities As a Duty Officer, you will operatively lead and allocate daily work at the facility/remand prison in consultation with the correctional facility inspectors. Your responsibilities also include staffing matters in the form of short-term scheduling, where you ensure we have the right number of employees in the right places. In this work, you will collaborate with our central staffing team. The Duty Officer represents the employer and ensures that the management chain is maintained throughout to all employees. The work is varied and often maintains a high tempo. In your role as Duty Officer at the Stockholm West operations area, you anchor decisions, communicate clearly and directly, and contribute to a safe and efficient work environment. Some of the responsibilities of this position include: monitoring daily security work and taking measures when necessary, creating and developing systems for monitoring daily security operations, ensuring that laws, regulations, directives, and security plans are followed. You will also assist the leadership at Stockholm West in work on systematic fire prevention, search and urine testing strategy/monitoring, local safety meetings, statistics, training activities, security plans, etc. You exercise operational management based on operational needs, with transports and security work as particularly prioritized areas. Decision-making occurs according to Swedish Prison and Probation Service regulations. Outside office hours, the Duty Officer is the highest local operational decision-maker under the on-call Facility Director. Within the Stockholm West operations area, a total of ten Duty Officers will work – a team of five at Färingsö facility and a team of five at Svartsjö facility. These ten Duty Officers will together form the Stockholm West operations area Duty Officer group with a shared manager. The group will work closely together on procedures and structure and will cover for each other during, for example, training, vacations, or other absences. Work is conducted according to a 5-week rotation schedule with day, night, and weekend shifts. The schedule includes seven night shifts during a five-week period, and all work shifts are 12 hours long. To thrive and succeed in your assignment, it is important that you share the Swedish Prison and Probation Service's fundamental values of a humane view of people, respect for the individual, and belief in human development. Qualifications Your personal qualities are important to us. As a Duty Officer, you need to be stable, flexible, and have a holistic view of the work. Since you, together with your colleagues, run the operations, you need to have good collaboration skills and be clear in your communication. We are looking for you who have: - Approved Swedish Prison and Probation Service training - Swedish Prison and Probation Service internal training for Duty Officers - Experience working as a Duty Officer, minimum 3 months - Ability to express yourself well in Swedish language, both spoken and written It is beneficial if you have: - Experience with personnel planning - Experience in a leadership position - Language skills other than Swedish In this recruitment, selection is made after the application deadline has passed, and interview invitations are sent thereafter. Interviews will be held at Svartsjö facility on September 8–9. Participation is mandatory and takes place only on these dates – no other time is offered. Other Information The Swedish Prison and Probation Service has chosen to remove the personal letter and replaced it with selection questions that are relevant to the position. Your answers to the selection questions and your CV form the basis for determining whether you are qualified to proceed in the process. To be considered for employment within the Swedish Prison and Probation Service, you must meet high standards regarding suitability, judgment, security and confidentiality awareness, and compliance with applicable laws. This means you stand up for democratic values and the state values that apply to the Swedish Prison and Probation Service's operations. Certain positions are classified as security positions, and a security clearance with background check will be conducted before an employment decision is made. For certain security-classified positions, Swedish citizenship is required. The Swedish Prison and Probation Service welcomes applicants with diverse backgrounds and experiences. Read more about security clearance here: https://www.kriminalvarden.se/jobba-hos-oss/rekryteringsprocessen/sakerhetsprovning-vid-rekrytering/ The position may involve civil contingency placement at the Swedish Prison and Probation Service. Read more about civil contingency placement here: https://www.kriminalvarden.se/jobba-hos-oss/rekryteringsprocessen/krigsplacering/ Individual salary setting applies. Probationary employment may be applied. The Swedish Prison and Probation Service strives for equal gender distribution and increased diversity. To submit your application, click the application link in the job posting. Questions about how to apply and upload your CV should be directed directly to Varbi. Questions about specific jobs will be answered by the contact person specified in the posting. We respectfully but firmly decline direct contact from staffing and recruitment companies as well as sellers of job postings. The Swedish Prison and Probation Service has contracted agreements.
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Overview
- Type
- job
- Status
- active
- Visibility
- public
- City
- Svartsjö
- Address
- Fiskaruddsvägen 10
- GPS
- 59.364768222958, 17.730981006321
- Phone
- Published
- 3. 8. 2026
- Edited
- 15. 8. 2026