Social Educator / Social Educator / Work Educator / Work Educator Agogic Daily Structure

Social Educator / Social Educator / Work Educator / Work Educator Agogic Daily Structure

The social-educational-psychiatric model station SOMOSA offers a stationary 6 to 12-month intensive treatment program for 14 to 18-year-old female and male adolescents who are in a severe adolescent crisis. The goal of the treatment is to stabilize the clients in their personality to the extent that they can cope in the existing supportive or substitutive socialization systems upon discharge.

As an accredited list hospital in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry and as a youth home with a social-educational mandate, we fulfill both requirements through a long-established, intersystemic collaboration in the fields of social pedagogy, care, psychotherapy, and work education.

We are looking for a work educator or

a social educator HFS/FHS/University

60 - 80 % starting December 1, 2025, or by agreement

In our multifunctional workshops, we offer clients an individual work training that is specifically tailored to their personal needs. This includes both close supervision and professional guidance in dealing with new media as well as accompanying offers to promote social and professional skills.

In the context of individual work training, we place particular emphasis on the development of work consistency and social competence. Your expertise, empathy, creativity, and commitment are crucial to support our clients in their personal development.

Without production pressure, you will work together with the clients to develop an individual work plan. The goal is to enable them to experience daily successes through suitable tasks and clear structures – thus accompanying them step by step on their way to greater independence and participation.

Thanks to your professional competence, you will implement the SOMOSA-specific therapeutic-pedagogical concept as a member of the treatment team with your colleagues from psychiatric, psychotherapeutic, and social-educational fields.

As a team member, you gladly embrace an organizational culture that includes characteristics such as mutual learning as an innovative process, flexibility, openness and transparency, efficient work, and learning from mistakes.

Case and team supervisions support you as reflection and support vessels for your demanding task. The employment conditions are progressive, in accordance with the cantonal Zurich guidelines.

Your area of responsibility

• Developing and implementing individual treatment plans within the framework of the key worker approach in the intersystemic case team
• Accompanying and supporting clients in planning, implementing, and reflecting on their individual projects
• Participating in weekly intersystemic case discussions
• Participating in regular case supervisions
• Actively shaping and further developing the daily structure
• Organizing excursions and smaller events
• Accompanying external programs such as outings and sports
• Supporting and accompanying clients in their daily work
• Taking on administrative and organizational tasks to ensure case work
• Maintaining client documentation

What you bring

• Work educator / Work educator / Dipl. Social Educator HFS/FHS/University
• High application competence in the field of IT (Adobe Creative Cloud)
• Experience with psychologically burdened / dissocial clients is an advantage
• Enthusiasm and creativity for developing individual projects and learning opportunities both in the IT field and in other topics that concern the clients
• Stable, empathetic, and open personality
• Strong team and communication skills
• Knowledge in the use of Word and Excel
• Joy and interest in interdisciplinary work in a dynamic environment
• Driving license category B

From us, you can expect an exciting workplace as well as

• A diverse and meaningful close interdisciplinary collaboration
• Regular case and team supervisions for professional reflection
• Room for initiative, co-responsibility, and personal development
• Internal and external training opportunities with time and financial support
• At least 25 days of vacation per year
• Pension fund affiliated with the 'Pension Fund of the City of Zurich'
• Internal social employee events and a great team
• Modern, progressive employment conditions in accordance with the cantonal Zurich guidelines
• Very good accessibility by public transport
• Free parking spaces on site
• Immediate proximity to the Eulach park area as a recreational space
• Attractive fringe benefits

Application deadline and further information

Applications are reviewed continuously

For verbal inquiries, our group leader and deputy department head of Agogik, Mr. Roger Reichle, is happy to assist you. Phone 052 244 50 00

At www.somosa.ch you will find additional information about the SOMOSA model station.

Please send your written application with the usual documents preferably by email: personal@somosa.ch

or by post to

SOMOSA Model Station

Human Resources Department

Ms. Miriam Wäfler

Zum Park 20

8404 Winterthur