Professional Guardian / Adult Protection Guardian 80%

Your new role

As a professional guardian of the Adult Department, you will manage adult protection mandates on behalf of the KESB Region St.Gallen. Through your work, you help people who rely on your support by representing their interests. For example, you manage finances, assets, secure housing situations, network with the personal environment and professionals. In doing so, you contribute decisively to ensuring that clients lead as self-determined a life as possible and receive protection. You will be competently supported in administrative tasks by our specialist service. Become part of a committed and high-performing team.

This position is for you if you

• have a tertiary degree in social work or a comparable educational background.
• enjoy working with a wide variety of people, professionals, and family constellations and can professionally handle divergent expectations.
• are confident in dealing with crisis and conflict situations.
• are persuasive, goal-oriented, and assertive.
• bring a willingness to shape, seek challenges, and want to develop professionally and personally.
• are resilient, a team player, empathetic, and humorous.
• additional training in the areas of child or adult protection, mediation, systemic/solution-oriented counseling, social insurance, or mental disorders are valuable additional skills for this role.

Good reasons to work for the City of St.Gallen:

Your department

At the Social Services, the person is at the center of action. Our approximately 150 employees provide a wide range of services in the areas of child and adult protection as well as social assistance for the benefit of the city population. The professional guardianship with its 55 employees is a department of the Social Services. It carries out guardianship measures on behalf of the Child and Adult Protection Authority Region St.Gallen. We maintain lively professional exchanges with various offices inside and outside the city administration.

Our corporate culture

We live a respectful working atmosphere characterized by mutual trust, respect, and loyalty. We challenge and promote our employees based on their individual skills and resources. Equal opportunities are a top priority for us, and our framework conditions support you in balancing work and other areas of life.

What we offer

We offer you a responsible, varied, and challenging area of responsibility with modern employment conditions. Mobile working, intervisions, and supervisions are a matter of course for fulfilling our tasks. We implement the recommendations of the Conference for Child and Adult Protection regarding the organization of professional guardianships from June 2021 and continue to advance professional and organizational development. You are part of a motivated and well-coordinated team with an exciting mix of experienced and aspiring colleagues. You will be carefully introduced to the area of responsibility by your supervisor and an experienced employee and coached in mandate management during the first months. Your workplace is located in the center of the city of St.Gallen.

Our selection process

Do you feel addressed? The head of the Adult Department, Christiane Klug, phone 071 224 54 45, is happy to provide you with further information.

We value diversity in all its forms and look forward to your perspective.

Please send your complete application exclusively online to the Human Resources Department.