Kanton Zürich
Zürich
Supervisor / Caregiver – Career Changers Welcome 80 - 100%
- 20 August 2026
- 80 – 100%
- Zürich
Job summary
Join Zürich's largest justice department, JuWe, as a prison officer! Experience a meaningful role in a supportive environment.
Tasks
- Support and guide detainees through their challenging phase.
- Ensure safety and order within the prison environment.
- Organize movements and maintain smooth operations daily.
Skills
- Minimum age 25, clean criminal record, and completed vocational training.
- Strong German language skills; additional languages a plus.
- Ability to remain calm and resilient under stress.
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About the job
Supervisor / Caregiver – Career Changers Welcome 80 - 100%With around 1400 employees, the Correctional Services and Reintegration (JuWe) is the largest office within the Directorate of Justice and Home Affairs and is responsible for penal and measure enforcement as well as the execution of various types of detention. Our employees from around 40 professions support and promote the reintegration of offenders and are committed effectively and progressively to a safe and just society.
The Zurich Remand Prisons (UGZ) are one of eight main departments of JuWe. They comprise seven facilities with around 735 prison places and about 500 employees. They are responsible for provisional detention, investigative and security custody, as well as early penal and measure enforcement until transfer to a correctional facility. Thus, they fulfil a central function within the Zurich justice system from the outset.
As part of the UGZ, Zurich Prison specialises in remand detention for adult men and has 110 detention places.
As a supervisor / caregiver, you accompany detainees without prejudice during this difficult phase and contribute to ensuring that everyday prison life is safe and orderly. If loyalty, respect, consistency and teamwork characterise you, you will find your place with us at Zurich Prison.
This is how you shape everyday prison life
- Care and support of detainees: You ensure an orderly and safe daily routine and provide advice and guidance to the incarcerated persons
- Ensuring security: You monitor security installations and cameras and act calmly, purposefully and prudently in special situations
- Coordination of processes: You organise the movements of detainees and ensure smooth operation
- Administrative tasks: You document events, prepare reports and thus keep all processes transparent and comprehensible
- Design and development: You contribute ideas, show commitment and support the continuous improvement of our operation
What you bring with you
- Minimum age 25 years and an impeccable reputation (no entries in the criminal and debt enforcement registers)
- Completed education: a federal vocational certificate, a (specialist) baccalaureate or a comparable qualification
- Good German skills in spoken and written form, additional language skills are an advantage
- Confident use of MS Office
- Flexibility for shift, weekend, night and special duties
- High resilience and ability to keep a cool head even in stressful situations
What you benefit from
- Zurich Prison is centrally located next to Helvetiaplatz, so you have excellent public transport connections
- You can expect a well-thought-out induction as well as a large range of part-time training and further education in theory and practice
- A lunch voucher card
- We offer you a fair, secure and all-round good employment package
- You work meaningfully in a socially relevant environment
How to become part of us – five steps to employment
1) Application via our online tool
2) Online assessment
3) Virtual or on-site meeting with the line manager
4) Personal meeting and trial day at GFZ
5) Final decision
We are committed to prejudice-free application processes and therefore ask you to refrain from including a cover letter, application photo and information about your marital status in your application. For this reason, we also use an online assessment early in the process to evaluate applicants as objectively as possible.
Any questions?
Do you have any questions about the role? The co-head of enforcement, Markus Isler, is happy to assist you at 043 258 32 08 and the head of enforcement P. Jerliu at 043 258 32 05.
Questions about the application process can be answered by the Recruitment & Assessment team at 043 257 43 19.
Further information about our recruitment process and employment at JuWe can be found at Working at JuWe | Canton of Zurich (zh.ch).
