Activity Manager

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

For our Tertianum establishment Le Byron in Villeneuve (VD), we are looking, from 1 February 2027, for a

Socio-cultural Service Manager at 80-100%

Your role

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

Your main responsibilities

• Design, organise and develop the socio-cultural concept of the establishment in coherence with other sectors of the establishment and the Tertianum philosophy.
• Build and structure the service processes, then ensure their appropriation, monitoring and continuous improvement.
• Actively participate in the proposed activities
• 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 CCT San and Tertianum directives.
• Initiate and follow individual projects in collaboration with care and other sectors, valuing the abilities, resources and wishes of each resident.
• Organise a diverse offer that meets the needs and desires of residents and takes into account their resources: individual and collective activities, events, outings and projects promoting social connection and openness to the outside world.
• Maintain a relationship of trust with residents and their relatives, based on listening, empathy and respect.
• Train, support and assist apprentices and interns
• Collaborate actively 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

• CFC ASE, 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 and leadership oriented towards support, empowerment and development.
• Trainer training in companies is an asset
• Good knowledge of labour legislation and the CCT San
• Particular sensitivity to the person-centred approach and valuing their resources.
• A taste for creation, project construction 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; German and English are assets.

Why Tertianum?

Tertianum offers interesting opportunities for professional and managerial careers and we place great importance on our employees being able to reconcile their professional development and lifestyle. This involves 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 other 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.