Social Educator for our Residential Training, 70%

Social Educator for our Residential Training, 70%

The socio-educational-psychiatric model station SOMOSA offers a residential intensive treatment program lasting 9 to 12 months for clients aged 14 to 18 who are experiencing a severe adolescent crisis.

The goal of the treatment is to stabilize the adolescents in their personality to the extent that they can cope with the existing supportive or substitutive socialization systems upon discharge.

The setting and therapeutic instruments consist of elements of psychiatric milieu therapy, structures analogous to socio-educational residential operations, and a psychotherapy offer corresponding to an open psychotherapy station with 365-day operation.

As a possible follow-up solution to our residential therapy program, our external residential training is available.

The adolescents are primarily supported in the evenings with the assistance of experienced professionals. We understand residential training in a broad sense as life training, where training partly means learning specific skills through repeated practice. It requires more self-responsibility from the adolescents but also offers more freedoms compared to a residential group.

During the day, the adolescents usually engage in an external activity or participate in the program within our own daily structure. Therefore, the support mainly takes place in the evenings and only very rarely on weekends.

To complement our residential training team, we are looking for

a Social Educator HFS/FHS/University, 70%

You will be responsible, together with 2 colleagues, for the care of 4 male and 3 female clients in the two apartments located close to each other.

For the implementation of the SOMOSA-specific therapeutic-educational concept, you will work together with colleagues from socio-educational, psychiatric, psychotherapeutic, and work-educational fields.

Your ability and experience in dealing with psychopathological disorders enable you to independently and collaboratively with your team achieve the goals of our adolescents' development plans. As a new team member, you are happy to embrace an organizational culture that includes characteristics such as mutual learning as an innovative process, openness and transparency, efficient work, and learning from mistakes.

Your area of responsibility

• Case management and key worker tasks over a longer period
• Co-development and implementation of individual treatment plans within the framework of key worker tasks
• Training of everyday, self, and social competencies in group and individual settings
• Designing leisure time and weekly organization
• Participation in projects and working groups, creating documentation and reporting

What you bring

• Training as a Social Educator HFS / FHS / University
• Experience in social work tasks
• Experience in the adolescent psychiatric inpatient sector is desirable
• Self-organized and independent work in a small team
• Workdays Monday to Wednesday
• Willingness for irregular working hours, i.e., mainly in the evenings, without weekends
• Willingness for flexible assignments
• Driver's license category B is desirable

From us, you can expect an exciting workplace as well as

• Diverse, interesting, close interdisciplinary collaboration
• Room for initiative, responsibility, and personal development
• Internal and external training opportunities with time and financial support
• At least 25 days of vacation
• Internal social employee events
• Pension fund linked to the 'Pension Fund of the City of Zurich'
• The employment conditions are progressive, in line with the cantonal Zurich guidelines
• Excellent public transport connections
• Free parking available at the main building of SOMOSA
• Eulach Park is in immediate proximity
• Attractive fringe benefits

Application deadline and further information

Applications are reviewed continuously.

For verbal inquiries, Ms. Karin Büchi-Amacker, group leader WG D and WT, is happy to assist you. Phone 052 244 50 00

Please send your written application with the usual documents, preferably by email: personal@somosa.ch

or by post to

Model Station SOMOSA

Human Resources Department

Ms. Miriam Wäfler

Zum Park 20

8404 Winterthur