Treatment Assistant

We are looking for someone who can be a secure adult and wants to work with children in their residence.

We are currently recruiting staff for special fixed-term employment (work as needed).

Recruitment is ongoing during the application period.

About Us

Creare care- Gästgivaregården consists of a Treatment Home with 4 places. The facility is located in Fagerås, about 30 minutes from Karlstad. The organization also includes a Treatment Home in Kil and outpatient services.

The target group for the home is girls and boys aged 9-12 with their own behavioral issues. Placement in the facility occurs according to SoL or LVU.

About the Work

We work milieutherapeutically based on a behavioral science foundation and use a low-affective and cognitive approach. In the role of treatment assistant, you should be able to create a secure environment for the children through a structured and meaningful daily life. You build a stable relationship with the children and seek them out curiously every day to learn more about them. Based on care and implementation plans, you should plan and carry out treatment work together with the placed children individually. We use methods including TMO - Trauma-informed care, CBT for children, TEJPING, MI - Motivational interviewing, and rePULSE. You should document your work with the children in a journal system. The job duties also include all practical tasks that arise in a home, such as cooking, cleaning, laundry, ensuring children's hygiene is maintained, and more, as well as guiding in daily chores. You should also be involved in the facility's development and change work, whose goal in itself is to strengthen quality and create a good workplace.

As an employee, you participate in internal training and other meetings related to the work monthly.

There is a collective agreement with Vårdföretagarna.

About You

You should have post-secondary education as a treatment assistant, treatment educator, social educator, leisure educator, leisure leader, social worker, or other education/experience that the employer deems equivalent. The work suits you if you can and want to work in a group together with your colleagues to create security and structure for the placed children. As a person, you are communicative and attentive. You are curious and take responsibility for your own part as well as for the children's. You strive to be a clear role model. You have the ability to set clear boundaries and are simultaneously flexible in an eventful environment. Due to the nature of the work, good empathetic ability is needed, and you are solution-focused. You need to be genuinely interested in learning more about the children and their challenges. You have plenty of patience in what can sometimes be a slow process, as well as in pressured situations. Good treatment towards the children is something we highly value. You are welcome to be proactive, inspiring, and full of ideas. Your role in the facility allows and encourages your own initiatives.

We are looking for someone who can express themselves well verbally and in writing. The position requires good documentation skills. You should have good ability to understand and analyze social processes and problems. You should have a working approach characterized by engagement and drive. You should have the ability to take personal responsibility and work in a structured manner. You should find it easy to handle when conditions and planning change in the work.

The work can be both mentally and physically demanding at times based on the well-being of the placed children.

· Driver's license for manual transmission is a requirement.

· Great importance is placed on personal suitability.