Group Leader Residential Group Binz Wanted (90%)

About the job

The Youth Network Foundation offers outreach as well as (partly) residential psychosocial support for adolescents, young adults and families. Our services are individual, needs- and impact-oriented – from outreach family support to accompanied youth living arrangements to supervised residential groups.

Residential Group Offer
Besides great expertise, can you inspire people, provide guidance and lead a team forward? In the Binz residential group, you lead a professional team of about eight people who support young people in difficult life situations.
You combine motivating leadership with educational expertise. Together with the service management, you strengthen the team, anchor our attitude in everyday life and shape development.

What you bring
• Commitment and relational strength – you work with heart and expertise and remain attentive and reliable even in difficult developmental processes.
• Leadership strength – you inspire, motivate and promote independent working.
• Clear stance – you lead appreciatively, provide orientation and address difficult issues.
• Expertise – you apply your professional knowledge reflectively and design case management and development planning in a well-founded and goal-oriented manner.
• Participation – you involve young people in decisions and strengthen their self-efficacy.
• Openness to schema work – you get to know our approach and advance its implementation in everyday educational practice together with the team.
• Organisation and reliability – you plan proactively, make comprehensible decisions and follow through.
• Enjoyment of networked collaboration, ability to reflect
• Very good German language skills in spoken and written form.
• Crisis competence – you act thoughtfully and remain stable even under pressure.

Do you want to empower people and make a difference together with your team? We look forward to hearing from you.

What to expect
• Leading: You use your scope for design, provide orientation and strengthen a team that moves things together.
• Unleashing potential: You coach employees, promote their development and participate in personnel selection and training support.
• Effectively shaping pedagogy: You bring our concepts to life together with your team and are responsible for key worker work as well as accompanying individual development processes from admission to discharge.
• Accompanying development directly: You work with the young people, build sustainable relationships and lead location, case and crisis meetings.
• Creating the framework: You organise shifts, team meetings and supervisions and keep an eye on budget, cash and operating resources.
• Achieving more together: You work closely with the service management and strengthen collaboration with families, schools and specialist agencies.
• Setting new impulses: We develop concepts and quality together – supported by further training in schema work, supervision and professional coaching.
You mainly work on weekdays, without night shifts. You can expect scope for design, professional exchange and a salary structure according to cantonal guidelines.

Curious? Here’s how to proceed
Then we look forward to receiving your application as a PDF at:
📧 info@jugendnetzwerk.ch
Questions? Feel free to call us:
Sandra Rüegg, Service Manager Residential Groups, Tel. 044 727 40 35 or at www.jugendnetzwerk.ch.
More about us:
📍 Headquarters: Zurich | other locations: Horgen and Binz
🌐 www.jugendnetzwerk.ch