Head of Socio-Cultural Services 80-100%

Is your heart set on caring for the elderly? Is support your calling, allowing you not only to improve others’ quality of life but also to give meaning to your own? Do you see opportunities to bring your skills and experience to us to make a positive impact on the lives of our clients? Then you are in the right place!

For our facility Tertianum le Rolliet in Plan-les-Ouates (GE), which will open its doors in April 2026, we are looking for a

Head of Socio-Cultural Services 80-100%

Your Role

As head of the socio-cultural service, you are the driving force and inspiration for a team composed of professionals and apprentices. Your role is to guide, support, mobilise and develop your colleagues to ensure a meaningful socio-cultural offer and projects adapted to the abilities, wishes and resources of each resident.

Your Main Responsibilities

• Design, organise and develop the socio-cultural concept of the facility in coherence with other sectors of the establishment and the Tertianum philosophy.
• Build and structure the service’s processes in the context of the opening, then ensure their adoption, monitoring and continuous improvement.
• Support and develop the team, value skills and complementarities, and provide a clear, respectful, collaborative and motivating work environment.
• Organise and plan work in compliance with labour legislation, the Geneva EMS CCT and Tertianum directives.
• Initiate and monitor individual projects in collaboration with care and other sectors, valuing the capacities, resources and wishes of each resident.
• Organise a diverse offer that meets residents’ needs and desires and takes their resources into account: individual and group activities, events, outings and projects promoting social connection and openness to the outside world.
• Maintain a trusting relationship with residents and their relatives, based on listening, empathy and respect.
• Train, support and mentor apprentices and interns.
• Actively collaborate with teams interdisciplinarily, participate in and develop the life of the establishment.
• Represent the service to external partners and during audits.
• Work closely with management and ensure monitoring of the service’s budgetary objectives.

Your Profile

• Federal Certificate of Competence (CFC) as an Elderly Care Assistant, social educator diploma or equivalent training.
• Proven experience with elderly people; experience in psychogeriatrics or psychiatric rehabilitation is an asset.
• Successful experience in team leadership with a focus on support, empowerment and development.
• Trainer qualification in a company is an asset.
• Good knowledge of labour legislation and the Geneva EMS CCT.
• Particular sensitivity to the person-centred approach and valuing individual resources.
• A passion for creation, project development and process structuring.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, empathy and ease in relations with residents, relatives and teams.
• Curiosity, open-mindedness, creativity and very good command of French; English is an asset.

Why Tertianum?

Tertianum offers interesting opportunities for professional and managerial careers and we place great importance on our employees being able to balance their professional development and lifestyle. This includes a varied range of benefits, for example:

• Internal and external continuing education opportunities
• An additional day off during the birthday month
• Daily lunch for CHF 10
• Discounted Sunrise mobile and internet subscriptions
• Discounts on certain supplementary health insurances
• Various fleet discounts

You will find more benefits on our website.

Are you interested?

We offer you an exciting prospect: to participate in building a socio-cultural service that places the resident at the centre and concretely contributes to giving meaning to their daily life.

We look forward to receiving your complete application online via our application tool.