Dipl. Social Educator with Additional Function as Deputy Team Leader, 60-80%

Our institution has developed over time into a modern center for special education, which covers today's needs in the special and social educational field with a diverse range of offerings. Around 240 people work in the areas of special school, housing, therapy, services, and administration.

The housing area offers social pedagogically qualified support to children and adolescents in collaboration with their parents in six living groups.

Do you love the challenge of inspiring and accompanying young people? Do you enjoy working with their families? Do you see the opportunities to contribute your skills and experiences with us to have a positive impact on the lives of our children and adolescents and their family systems? Then you are in the right place with us!

For the living group team "Hangar" in Derendingen, we are looking for a:

Dipl. Social Educator with Additional Function as Deputy Team Leader, 60-80%

Actively shape...

• Meaningful work: You actively shape the everyday life of young people and provide them with support, orientation, and new impulses. In doing so, you accompany adolescents on their path to independence and support them in entering the professional world.
• Team spirit: You work interdisciplinary, networked, and on an equal footing – with colleagues, families, and specialist agencies.
• Responsibility & scope for design: As deputy team leader, you contribute your ideas and develop new paths together with the team.
• Quality: You work according to the KOA approach and attachment-oriented intervention and strengthen the trust of young people – and their systems – through reliable relationships and cooperative processes, so they can feel safe, grow, and develop new perspectives.
• Variety & challenge: No day is like the other – and that is exactly what makes working with us so special.

Enrich us with...

• Interest in people and their stories
• Completed studies in social pedagogy (FH/HF) or equivalent training
• Experience in working with children and adolescents and their social networks is an advantage
• Sense of responsibility, humor in everyday life
• Willingness to identify with the values and culture of focus youth
• Joy and commitment to working in an interdisciplinary context
• Special knowledge in working with troubled children/adolescents and their families
• Flexibility and willingness to work in shifts
• Team and reflection skills
• Driver's license category B for excursions, etc.

At "focus youth"

• We offer space for participation and personal development
• We support internal and external training and further education opportunities above average
• We are open to new things and implement them as much as possible
• We rely on shared values as well as innovation
• We support part-time work, even in leadership positions
• We enable home office (situational)
• We appreciate our employees' regular staff events and area excursions
• Modern working conditions are a matter of course
• We enable flexible work design
• Mothers receive 16 weeks of paid maternity leave
• We offer above-average pension fund and insurance solutions
• We provide generous salary continuations in case of illness and accident (720 days full salary)
• Long-term employees receive generous service anniversary gifts
• We offer discounted (or free in the housing area) catering options
• We grant unpaid leave
• Free parking spaces are available

Contact

Markus Magnenat

Head of Housing

T +41 32 674 66 49