Treatment Assistant

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

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

Recruitment occurs continuously during the application period based on the organization's needs.

About Us

Creare care- Allégatan consists of a Treatment Home with 5 places. The facility is located in Kil, approximately 20 minutes from Karlstad. The organization also includes a Treatment Home in Fagerås and outpatient care activities.

The target group for the home is girls and boys aged 8-12 years with their own behavioral issues. Placement in the facility occurs according to SoL or LVU.

About the Work

We work milieu-therapeutically based on a behavioral science foundation and use a low-affect 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 each day curiously seek out the children 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 work tasks also include all practical matters that arise in a home such as cooking, cleaning, laundry, ensuring children's hygiene is maintained, and more, and supervising in everyday chores. You should also participate in the facility's development and change work, whose goal in itself should strengthen quality and create a good workplace.

Ongoing internal training sessions and meetings related to the work are conducted monthly.

Collective agreement exists with Vårdföretagarna.

About You

You should have post-secondary education as a treatment assistant, treatment pedagogue, social pedagogue, leisure pedagogue, leisure leader, social worker, or other education/experience that the employer deems equivalent. The work suits you who 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. As a person, you are curious and responsible 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 a sometimes 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 you who can express yourself well in speech and writing. The position requires good documentation ability. You should have a good ability to understand and analyze social processes and problems. You should have a work approach characterized by engagement and drive. You should have the ability to take own responsibility and work structured. You should find it easy to handle when conditions and planning change in the work.

The work can be both psychologically and physically demanding at times based on the placed children's well-being.

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

· Great importance is placed on personal suitability.