School Social Work Specialist (50–70 %)

About the job

The KV Zurich Business School is the largest commercial vocational school in Switzerland. We support adolescents and young adults during an important phase of their educational, professional, and personal development.

Prevention, health, and counselling have a long tradition at our school. Our support services include several coordinated areas: Face2Face offers topic-specific short consultations, the Prevention and Health Commission PGK is responsible for school-wide prevention, and the Care Team supports in extraordinary events. The School Social Work SSA complements these services with professional psychosocial counselling, intervention, and networking.

To complement our future two-person SSA team, we are looking for a committed

School Social Work Specialist (50–70 %)

Your role

• You help shape the development and quality assurance of the school social work unit. For this, you work closely with internal and external support services.
• You advise and support learners and students in a low-threshold and confidential manner regarding psychosocial, family, and training-related challenges.
• You advise and support teachers, guardians, and school management in challenging situations with learners, especially concerning psychosocial issues, early detection and intervention, as well as questions of child and adult protection.
• You conduct mediations as well as group and class interventions in stressful class situations.
• You refer to internal or external support services as needed and network the school, training companies, guardians, and other stakeholders.

Your profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Social Work or Social Pedagogy
• CAS in School Social Work or a comparable further qualification
• Experience in counselling adolescents and young adults, ideally in an educational or vocational training context
• Competence in systemic solution-oriented counselling, conflict mediation, and networking. Good knowledge of the Zurich education, counselling, and support landscape is an advantage.
• Confidence in handling crisis situations, confidentiality, data protection, and professional role clarity
• Independent, structured, and team-oriented working style
• Willingness to be visible, approachable, and present in everyday school life.

We offer

• Meaningful and varied work with scope for design in a two-person SSA team with collegial case consultation, organised as an independent unit.
• Regular intervision and generous opportunities for further training
• Modern infrastructure and a confidential counselling room
• Cantonal employment conditions and annual working hours with a focus on teaching weeks.

Interested? Please send us your complete application documents including your desired workload via our application platform . We look forward to meeting you.