Specialist in Care EFZ

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Specialist in Care EFZ

Apprenticeship

Workplace: Landquart

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Care specialists support children, adolescents, the elderly, and people with disabilities in managing their daily lives. They promote and maintain their independence as much as possible. We offer you training in the field of disability care at the Arche Nova care center in Landquart.

You will learn your self-, social-, professional-, and methodological skills through everyday and leisure support for people with intellectual disabilities or mental impairments. You will promote the abilities of the residents, recognize their needs, and support them in their independence.

Our fundamental attitude in your training

• We strive for a learning climate characterized by mutual respect, tolerance, and openness.
• We provide you with space to take on your role as a learning care specialist.
• We enable you to engage in 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, using leadership and training tools systematically.
• We see learning in practice as a continuous and building process.
• Through differentiated, constructive, and reasoned feedback, we achieve learning successes 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 training takes place at the Health and Social Education Center (BGS) in Chur.
• The inter-company courses (ÜK) support your learning success by imparting fundamental and industry-specific competencies.
• We offer the professional learning fields in the living groups and day care of the Arche Nova care center in the Landquart region.

We support you if you aim for vocational maturity (BM) during your apprenticeship. Please inform us of your interest in your application.

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

Regulations govern the exceptions for night and Sunday work for apprentices in the health and social sector. You work a maximum of two nights per week and a maximum of ten nights per year after reaching the age of 17.

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

Our requirements for you

• You enjoy contact with people
• You are team-oriented and communicative
• You have empathy for people in need of help and support
• You have a careful and precise working style
• You act responsibly
• You are resilient and show willingness to work irregular hours

Perspectives after your apprenticeship

After completing your apprenticeship, you can work as a care specialist or aim for the federal professional examination to become a specialist in supporting people with disabilities, a team leader in social and socio-medical institutions, or a migration specialist.

Furthermore, you can take the higher professional examination to become a certified institutional manager in the social and socio-medical field or a certified work educator.

The higher vocational school offers you the opportunity for further education to become a certified activation specialist HF or a certified social educator HF, a certified child educator HF, or a certified community animator HF.

At the university of applied sciences, you can obtain a Bachelor of Arts/Science (FH) in Social Work with a specialization in one of the subfields of social work, social pedagogy, or socio-cultural animation, applied psychology, or occupational therapy.

Selection process

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 selection days, you will gain insight into everyday work, and we will get to know each other better. The selection days are organized by us and take place at the Arche Nova care center in Landquart.

The hiring decision is made by at least two people, usually by the training manager and a vocational trainer.

Your benefits at a glance

We offer you a tailored vocational training. In the PDGR, we fundamentally train all vocational courses at the level of Federal Certificate of Competence (EFZ).

An apprenticeship for the Federal Vocational Certificate (EBA) is possible depending on the requirements and in certain professions after consultation with the education department.

We support you if you aim for vocational maturity (BM) during your apprenticeship. Please inform us of your interest in your application.

As a competitive athlete, we enable you, in consultation with the Office for Vocational Education and your sports association, to have special training conditions to create an ideal combination of vocational training and competitive sports. In the preliminary clarification, we carefully check whether your sport can be reconciled with your chosen vocational training and educational goals.

All our apprentices receive 5 weeks of vacation per year. If you work in the 43-hour week model, you even get an additional 5 free days (compensation days). These are worked in throughout the year within the framework of the 43-hour week.

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

The next two days will be spent together by all new apprentices. We will work on various topics in workshops to prepare you for the start of your apprenticeship.

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

The day promotes mutual exchange among apprentices from different professions and allows you to have a cross-professional experience.

In every profession, there are industry-standard apprentice wages. Would you like a little more? We value our youngest employees and are happy to pay our apprentices a little more so that they can manage well with their first income. Additionally, there is a 13th-month salary. There are also allowances for work on Sundays and evenings, for example, as a care specialist – of course, always within the framework of youth protection.

Tips for your budget planning can be found here.

We strive to provide apprentices in all areas and professions with a varied and well-supported training experience. As a company with over 1,200 employees, we utilize our diverse opportunities. This way, we can give our apprentices insights into various areas, and they can complete parts of their apprenticeship at different locations.

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

“Community” is one of our core values: Everyone contributes their individuality and collaborates constructively with other professions – this is how we move forward. Your ideas and opinions are also welcome and encouraged.

Learn more about our values here.

Everyday work and collaboration

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

If you cannot move forward alone or with your environment, sometimes a conversation with an external professional can help. For this, we have an independent counseling service available for employees – neutral, anonymous, and free of charge.

Learning and succeeding at the three learning locations

Are you facing difficulties in school, in ÜK, or during practical learning? We are happy to support our apprentices individually with their personal challenges during their training. We promote attendance at support courses or other offerings from your vocational school.

Your training company

The PDGR and its values

“The open psychiatry – by leading experts for the people,” that is our vision. You are the expert – with your expertise, your competencies, 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 orient themselves to the latest findings. The PDGR stands as a lighthouse and is an important support for society.

Your contacts

Ralph Lang

Head of Arche Nova Care Center

Ralph Lang

Plantahofstrasse 27

Your application

Are you curious about new things, curious about an apprenticeship with the PDGR?

Then apply – we look forward to getting to know you!