Care Specialist (80%-100%)
VALIDA Lehr- und Arbeitswerkstätte für Menschen mit Behinderungen
St. Gallen
Key information
- Publication date:06 December 2025
- Workload:80 – 100%
- Contract type:Permanent position
- Place of work:St. Gallen
Job summary
Valida is a social enterprise that empowers individuals with support needs. Join a dynamic team in a meaningful role!
Tasks
- Create a supportive living environment to enhance autonomy and health.
- Manage crises effectively, providing timely assistance and solutions.
- Guide and support colleagues, ensuring clear communication.
Skills
- Completed EFZ training as a FABE with several years of experience.
- Strong social competence and resilience in challenging situations.
- Good IT skills, especially in MS-Office.
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As a social enterprise, Valida overcomes boundaries. Thanks to its services, people with support needs shape their lives as independently as possible. In the interest and for the benefit of all.
For the Department of Living in Old Age, we are looking for a motivated, committed, service-oriented, and reliable personality as
Care Specialist (80%-100%)
Your future tasks:
- Effectively shaping everyday life: You create a homely environment, strengthen the autonomy & health of service users, and effectively implement educational measures as a key contact person.
- Mastering crises confidently: You recognize challenging situations early, organize immediate help in crises, and take responsibility – professionally guided and solution-oriented.
- Accompanying & guiding: You conduct conversations with relatives/professionals, accompany co-caregivers, interns & trainees, and ensure clear information flow.
- Living quality: You promote the participation of service users; trust, empathy, respect, and reliability characterize your actions. You maintain documentation, organize meetings, and implement safety regulations appropriately.
- Meaningful shifts: Shift & on-call duty within the defined workload, structured onboarding & further training – in a committed team with noticeable scope for design.
Our ideal candidate:
- Completed EFZ training as FABE with several years of professional experience
- High social competence, assertiveness, resilience, and flexibility
- Quick comprehension
- Enjoyment in working with people with support needs
- Good IT skills (MS Office)
Our offer:
- Exciting environment with modern employment conditions
- A great plus in meaningfulness and identification
- Various internal and external training and development opportunities
- Comprehensive onboarding in our company
- Affordable meals in the staff restaurant
- Contributions to supplementary family childcare
Work location:
9001 St. Gallen