Head of Social Counseling

About the job

Tasks

• You take over the professional and personnel management of social counseling and actively shape its further development
• You specifically develop your team, promote strengths, and ensure forward-looking resource and deployment planning
• As the central contact person, you represent social counseling confidently within the clinic as well as towards external partners
• You actively shape processes and contribute your ideas to cross-departmental projects
• With professional competence and empathy, you support patients and their relatives in challenging life situations
• You clarify insurance and financial questions in a solution-oriented and understandable manner
• You organize sustainable follow-up solutions – from returning home to the appropriate form of housing or care
• Through your strong networking, you create viable solutions with specialist offices, authorities, and external institutions
• You actively and on equal footing shape the interdisciplinary collaboration within the treatment team

Profile

• You have a completed degree in social work (FH/BSc) and bring several years of professional experience – ideally in healthcare
• Further training at the master’s level is a plus and underlines your professional claim
• You are very familiar with social insurance and especially healthcare
• Leadership experience as well as joy in developing and supporting people characterize you
• With your high social competence and communication skills, you create trust and orientation
• You appear confident and professional and convince with your structured, solution-oriented way of working
• You remain flexible, resilient, and keep an overview even in dynamic situations
• Teamwork is a matter of course for you – together you achieve more
• You have very good German skills in spoken and written form; additional languages are a plus
• You use digital tools confidently and efficiently in your daily work

Would you like to bring your leadership experience and professional competence into an environment that stands for holistic rehabilitation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and sustainable patient success? Then we look forward to getting to know you.

Benefits - good work needs good conditions

• 50% discount on health insurance premiums
• Attractive pension benefits
• Work-family balance: own daycare center, financial support for external childcare
• Days off on your birthday as well as on certain non-cantonal holidays
• Extensive internal training offers as well as participation in external training
• Free use of the training and leisure center
• Modern infrastructure in a scenic environment near Zurich