Social Pedagogue / Work Educator AHA 2

Social Pedagogue / Work Educator AHA 2

The socio-pedagogical-psychiatric model ward SOMOSA offers an inpatient 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' personalities to the extent that they can cope with the existing supportive or replacement socialization systems upon discharge.

As a recognized listed hospital in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry and as a youth home with a socio-pedagogical mandate, we fulfill both requirements through long-standing, intersystemic collaboration in the fields of social pedagogy, nursing, psychotherapy, and work education.

We are looking for a work educator or a social pedagogue HFS/FHS/Uni for the workshop AHA 2 (work-oriented education for female clients)

60 - 70% from 01.01.2026 or by arrangement

The workshop AHA (work-oriented education) is the first internal workplace for our clients. In the AHAs, we train them to maintain a structured daily routine and work consistency.

Our weekly program is varied. It includes sports, games, cooking, and occasionally excursions. This program serves as daily structuring and simultaneously prepares for work in the subsequent workshops of the SOMOSA model ward, where creativity, work consistency, and social skills are further promoted. Career orientation takes place there.

In everyday work, we support the clients in finding and carrying out their individual projects. The focus is on the process, not the work performance. We assess your personality, social behavior, and make initial evaluations of your abilities and professional interests as far as possible.

Your expertise, empathy, creativity, and commitment to promoting our clients come into play here. Without production pressure, you develop an individual work plan together with the clients. The goal is to enable them to experience daily successes through suitable tasks and clear structures – and to accompany them step by step on their path 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 together with your colleagues from psychiatric, psychotherapeutic, and socio-pedagogical fields.

As a team member, you gladly contribute to an organizational culture characterized by 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 tools for your demanding task. The employment conditions are progressive, based on the cantonal Zurich guidelines.

Your area of responsibility

• Developing and implementing individual treatment plans within the framework of key worker work 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 and weekly team meetings
• Active participation in shaping and further developing the daily structure
• Organizing excursions and smaller events
• Accompanying external programs such as excursions and sports
• Supporting and accompanying clients in everyday work
• Taking over administrative and organizational tasks to ensure case work
• Maintaining client documentation / preparing progress reports

You bring with you

• Work educator / social pedagogue diploma HFS/FHS/Uni
• Experience in the craft sector is an advantage
• Experience with psychologically burdened / dissocial clients is an advantage
• Enthusiasm and creativity for developing individual projects and learning opportunities
• Stable, empathetic, attentive, and open personality
• Strong team and communication skills
• Knowledge of Word and Excel
• Joy and interest in interdisciplinary work with professionals from medical, therapeutic, and socio-pedagogical fields
• Driver's license category B

You can expect an exciting workplace from us as well as

• A versatile 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 staff events and a great team
• Modern, progressive employment conditions based on 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 + deputy head of the education department, Mr. Roger Reichle, is happy to assist you. Phone 052 244 50 00

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

or by post to

Model Ward SOMOSA

Personnel Department

Ms. Miriam Wäfler

Zum Park 20

8404 Winterthur