About this role
The State Institutions Board (SiS) is a government agency responsible for individually tailored compulsory care for youth with complex psychosocial problems and adults with substance abuse. SiS also carries out closed youth care. We do this at youth homes and treatment centers for adults with substance abuse issues across 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 Bergsmansgården receives non-compulsory school-age girls. We are located in Fjugesta, three miles west of Örebro, and are now planning to open a satellite unit in Granhult, 3 miles north of Lindesberg. The girls come to us because they have psychosocial problems and issues with criminality or drug abuse.
Job Description
Do you want to make a vital difference for vulnerable people? Then the job as a treatment assistant at SiS is a meaningful challenge. The goal of your mission is to motivate our youth/clients towards new and less risky ways of living. As a treatment assistant, you are employed to provide care and treatment. You contribute to ensuring that department routines function as they should. You play a crucial role in maintaining stability and security for our youth/clients, and provide the foundation for daily life including (schooling), cleaning, cooking, and more. You help maintain order and safety at the institution according to our protocols. Documentation is an important part of your work. You will work on building secure relationships and help our youth/clients obtain the safety and security they need to break ingrained behaviors. Together with your team of committed colleagues such as treatment pedagogues and treatment coordinators, you have the opportunity to achieve good results and contribute to change. The job is often demanding but also stimulating, joyful, and varied.
Our vision is to be a place of change, which permeates our approach, engagement, and attitude.
Working hours are by agreement, shift by shift.
Qualifications
Your personal suitability is the key to vital change. Therefore, you need to have a good ability to create engagement and participation. Equally important is having a fundamental positive view of people, great empathetic capacity, and an ability to create good relationships. You have strong communication skills and can maintain calm even in pressured situations. You also have the ability to collaborate with others and are happy to share your knowledge with colleagues.
You should also have:
• Minimum 2-year post-secondary education from folk high school, vocational college, or equivalent training. The education should be focused on social work, social pedagogy, behavioral science, or another relevant subject area.*
• Class B driver's license
• Good Swedish language skills, both verbal and written
Meritorious
• Experience from client-facing positions in Correctional Services, e.g., Correctional Officer
• Training in healthcare and social care
• Experience working with our target group (e.g., addiction care, youth care, young girls, etc.)
At SiS, we care about good employee participation. This means you as an employee take responsibility for your work, contribute to development, and participate in good collaboration. Read more about our employee participation.
*Exceptions to the requirement of at least two-year post-secondary education can be made in individual cases if there are special reasons according to Chapter 5, Section 4 of the Social Services Ordinance (2025:468).
Employment:
Positions are hourly temporary positions by agreement. Last application date is December 3, 2025.
Interviews may be conducted on an ongoing basis.
SiS actively works against all forms of discrimination and welcomes all applicants.
For work at our institutions, SiS conducts a background check before employment.
For the recruitment process, the State Institutions Board has determined recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore firmly decline contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.
NOTE! If you have protected personal information, do not apply through the recruitment system. Instead, contact the person listed as the contact in the advertisement.