Practice Advisor for Private Support Persons, Job Sharing Possible 50-100%

Your New Role

Private support persons manage around 460 guardianships on behalf of the Child and Adult Protection Authority (KESB) Region St.Gallen (which includes the city of St.Gallen, Wittenbach, Häggenschwil, Muolen, and Eggersriet), mainly adult protection mandates and occasionally child protection mandates. The private support persons make a valuable contribution to supporting people in need. They form an important complement to professional guardians.

As a practice advisor, you recruit, mediate, qualify, and support committed volunteers and enable them to manage adult protection mandates. You advise the private support persons in the context of mandate management, organize courses and experience-sharing groups, conduct these, maintain documentation for the target group, provide regular information, and hold an annual appreciation event. In your diverse tasks, you maintain close communication with colleagues from the professional guardianship as well as the KESB audit office.

This position is for you if you

• have a tertiary degree in social work or law.
• have experience as a support person.
• want to support many committed people in caring for their clients with your knowledge and experience.
• are proficient in social insurance and accounting.
• enjoy working with a wide variety of people, professionals, and family constellations and can professionally handle divergent expectations.
• bring a willingness to shape, seek challenges, and want to develop professionally and personally.
• are resilient, a team player, empathetic, and humorous.

Good reasons to work for the city of St.Gallen:

Your Department

At the Social Services, the person is at the center of action. Our approximately 150 employees provide a wide range of services in the areas of child and adult protection as well as social assistance for the benefit of the city population. The professional guardianship with its 60 employees is a department of the Social Services. The practice advisory is organized as a staff unit and is part of the professional guardianship. We maintain lively professional exchanges with various offices inside and outside the city administration.

What We Offer

• We offer you a responsible, varied, and challenging area of responsibility with modern employment conditions.
• Professionally, we align ourselves with the recommendations of the Conference for Child and Adult Protection (KOKES).
• Mobile work, further training, and intervision are a matter of course for fulfilling our wide-ranging tasks.
• You are part of a motivated and well-coordinated team. You will be carefully introduced to the exciting area of responsibility.
• Your workplace is located in the center of the city of St.Gallen.

Our Corporate Culture

We live a respectful working atmosphere characterized by mutual trust, respect, and loyalty. We challenge and promote our employees based on their individual skills and resources. Equal opportunities are very important to us, and our framework conditions support you in balancing work and other areas of life.

Further Information

Do you feel addressed? The practice advisors, phone 071 224 63 90, as well as the head of the professional guardianship department, Chris Nussbaum, phone 071 224 58 93, are happy to provide you with further information. Please submit your complete written application online.

We value diversity in all its forms and look forward to your perspective.