Health Specialist EFZ

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Health Specialist EFZ

Apprenticeship

Workplace: Cazis / Chur

Workload: 100% Apply online now

At the Beverin Clinics in Cazis, Waldhaus in Chur, the day clinics in Ilanz and Thusis, as well as the care centres Rothenbrunnen and Montalin in Chur, we train apprentices as health specialists. Your practical training takes place in the wards of "General Psychiatry", "Geriatric Psychiatry", "Forensic Psychiatry" and "Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics & Addiction" of the clinics as well as in the residential groups of the care centres. The annual change of training locations enriches your education and allows you an in-depth insight into psychiatric treatment and care.

You will learn your self-, social-, professional- and methodological competence in various topics such as aligning nursing and care actions to patients and residents, hygiene and safety, medical-technical procedures, as well as handling crises and emergencies.

Our basic attitude in your training

• We strive for a learning environment characterised by mutual respect, tolerance and openness.
• We offer you space to assume your role as an apprentice health specialist.
• We enable you to experience various learning forms that promote individual, holistic and self-directed learning.
• We have clear regulations; we define the scope of action together.
• You learn through practical work and reflection, systematically using leadership and training tools.
• We see learning in practice as a continuous and progressive process.
• Through differentiated, constructive and justified feedback, we achieve learning success together and promote your transfer thinking – from theory to practice.

Key points of your training

Your apprenticeship lasts 3 years and takes place over three learning fields:

• The school education takes place at the Health and Social Education Centre (BGS) in Chur, in the 1st and 2nd year on two school days and in the 3rd year on one day per week.
• The inter-company courses (ÜK) support your learning success by imparting basic and industry-specific skills.
• The professional learning fields are offered at the Beverin Clinics in Cazis, Waldhaus in Chur, the day clinics in Ilanz and Thusis, as well as the care centres Rothenbrunnen and Montalin in Chur. After each year of apprenticeship, you change the training location.

We support you if you aim to obtain the vocational baccalaureate (BM) during your apprenticeship. Please inform us of your interest with your application.

During your vocational training, you have five weeks of holiday per year.

Regulations govern exceptional permits for night and Sunday work by apprentices in the health and social sector. From the age of 17, you work a maximum of two nights per week and a maximum of ten nights per year.

On Sundays or public holidays, from the age of 17, you work at most once per month, but no more than two public holidays per year that do not fall on a Sunday.

At the Cazis location, we offer you affordable accommodation options if daily commuting between home and workplace involves a significant time commitment.

Our requirements for you

• You enjoy contact with people
• You are a team player and communicative
• You have empathy for people in need of care
• You work carefully and precisely
• You act responsibly
• You are resilient and willing to work irregular hours

Perspectives after your apprenticeship

After completing your apprenticeship, you can work as a health specialist or pursue further training as a consultant for respiratory disorders and tuberculosis, as a specialist in neurophysiological diagnostics, as a medical coder, as a medical masseuse or masseur, or as a transport paramedic.

You can also choose further training as a specialist in psychiatric nursing and care with a professional examination.

The Higher Technical School offers you further training opportunities to become a certified nursing specialist HF, certified activation specialist HF, certified dental hygienist HF, certified specialist in medical-technical radiology HF, certified operating room technician HF, certified paramedic HF, or certified social pedagogue HF.

At the University of Applied Sciences, you can earn a Bachelor of Science (FH) in Nursing, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Nutrition and Dietetics, Midwifery, or Social Work.

Selection procedure

After reviewing your application, you will be informed about the selection decision. If you are shortlisted, the training manager will arrange an interview and selection days. Through five selection days, you gain insight into everyday work and we get to know each other better. The selection days are organised by us and take place at the Beverin Clinics in Cazis and Waldhaus in Chur.

The hiring decision is made by the four training managers of the education team. They discuss the application, ward evaluations, and the selection interview before making their decision.

Your advantages at a glance

We offer you a vocational training tailored to you. At PDGR, we generally train all apprentices at the Federal VET Diploma (EFZ) level.

Training for the Federal VET Certificate (EBA) is possible depending on prerequisites and in certain professions after consultation with the education department.

We support you if you aim to obtain the vocational baccalaureate (BM) during your apprenticeship. Please inform us of your interest with your application.

As a competitive athlete, we enable you, in consultation with the Office for Vocational Education and your sports association/club, to have special training conditions to create an ideal combination between vocational training and competitive sport. During the preliminary assessment, we carefully check whether your sport is compatible with your chosen apprenticeship and training goals.- show less

All our apprentices receive 5 weeks of holiday per year. If you work the 43-hour week model, you even get 5 additional days off (compensation days). These are worked in advance throughout the year within the 43-hour week.- show less

At the induction days in August, you meet all new apprentices at the Beverin Clinic in Cazis. After a welcome by Josef Müller, CEO, you receive initial insights into PDGR and get job-specific information about your apprenticeship start. The day concludes with a joint aperitif, attended by your trainer. Your parents and relatives are of course also invited.

The next two days, all new apprentices spend together. We work on various topics in workshops to prepare you for the start of your apprenticeship.- show less

Out of everyday life – the apprentice day is the annual highlight for our apprentices. Once a year, you meet all apprentices for a joint activity. Gold panning in the Surselva, planting fir trees with WWF in Prättigau, or visiting the RhB workshops in Landquart are examples from past apprentice days.

The day promotes exchange among apprentices from different professions and offers you an interdisciplinary experience.- show less

Each profession has industry-standard apprentice wages. Would you like a bit more? We value our youngest employees and are happy to pay our apprentices a little extra so they can manage well with their first income. Additionally, there is a 13th monthly salary. Allowances for Sunday and evening shifts, for example as a health specialist, are also included – always within youth protection regulations.

Tips for your budget planning can be found here.- show less

We strive to offer apprentices a varied and well-supported apprenticeship in all areas and professions. As a company with over 1,200 employees, we use our diverse opportunities. This allows us to give apprentices insights into different areas and enables them to complete parts of their apprenticeship at different locations.- show less

No matter the profession – you are part of the PDGR team and work with different employees and professions.

"Community" is one of our core values: Everyone contributes with their individuality and works constructively with other professions – this is how we progress. Your ideas and opinions are also welcome and encouraged.

Learn more about our values here.- show less

Work routine and collaboration

In your workday and private life, much exciting, new, unexpected, and challenging happens – much of it for the first time. In your trainer, supervisor or training manager, you always have a contact person. Talk about things that burden, overwhelm or hinder you. Together we look for solutions and help you.

If you cannot manage alone or with your environment, sometimes talking to an external professional helps. For this, we have an independent counselling service available to employees – neutral, anonymous and free of charge.

Learning and succeeding at the three learning locations

Difficulties at school, in the ÜK or in practical learning? We gladly support our apprentices individually with their personal challenges during the apprenticeship. We encourage attending support courses or other offers from your vocational school.

I am an apprentice health specialist at PDGR because...

"...I have a great interest in psychology and am convinced that I will learn a lot of new things at PDGR."

Alicia Strausak

Apprentice Health Specialist

Your training company

The PDGR and its values

"Open psychiatry – by leading experts for the people" is our vision. You are the expert – with your expertise, skills and above all your personality, you enrich our interprofessional teams.

Our experts share their knowledge for the best possible quality. They are trustworthy, competent and guided by the latest findings. PDGR stands as a beacon and is an important support for society.

Your contact person

Do you have questions? Eveline Rossi, training manager, is here for you.

Eveline Rossi, Training Manager

Phone 058 225 35 57