Apprenticeship as a Care Specialist EFZ – Start 2026
St.Gallen
Key information
- Publication date:07 August 2025
- Workload:100%
- Place of work:St.Gallen
Job summary
Join the team in child care at Stadt St.Gallen, focusing on holistic development. Enjoy a supportive environment with meaningful tasks.
Tasks
- Facilitate children's language, cognitive, and motor skill development.
- Design engaging activities for individual and group learning experiences.
- Observe and nurture children's social behavior and personality growth.
Skills
- Patience, keen observation, and practical sense are essential.
- Strong resilience and good health are required for the role.
- Ability to think interconnectedly for effective child engagement.
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Your new role
In the field of childcare, the holistic development of children is central. This includes linguistic, cognitive, and motor skills, social behavior, and personality. Care specialists design daily activities in an age-appropriate and situationally appropriate manner with guided sections and free play, individual and group activities. You enable children to have diverse learning experiences, to develop individually, and at the same time to find their place in the group.
This position is for you if you bring the following
- Patience and sensitivity in dealing with children
- Good observational skills
- Precise work
- Practical sense
- Resilience and good health
- Connected thinking
Good reasons to work for the city of St.Gallen:
What we offer
With us, you work in one of the municipal day care centers and are an important part of the team. This offers you a great variety of tasks where you can make a meaningful impact for St.Gallen. We offer apprenticeship positions at the Hebel day care center and at the Hof-Kreuzbühl day care center.
Benefits
- Performance bonus
- Welcome Day
- Christmas dinner
- Spring event
- Ostwind subscription
Any questions?
All information about the apprenticeship at the city of St.Gallen can be found at stadtsg.ch/lehre.
We value diversity in all its forms and look forward to your perspective.
City of St.Gallen, Personnel Services
, Jeannette Germann, Head of Vocational Training, +41 71 224 59 20, Town Hall, 9001 St.Gallen, www.stadt.sg.ch
