Special Needs Educator

About the job

The Bühl Foundation offers schooling, training, and social pedagogical support for children and young people with cognitive impairments or learning disabilities. This also includes the Therapeutic Residential School Group (TWSG).

The TWSG is a closely supervised programme for children and young people with a dual diagnosis: cognitive impairment plus a mental disorder (e.g. anxiety, trauma consequences, emotional instability) affecting behaviour. These young people currently need a lot of security, understanding, and clear structure because a regular class or residential group overwhelms them. Schooling and living take place at the same location. A maximum of five young people, fixed reference persons, clear routines instead of constant pressure. We see challenging behaviour as a signal – every behaviour has a good reason. We offer a safe place where stabilisation, trust, and learning become possible again. Psychology and child and adolescent psychiatry are part of the team.

Due to a retirement, we are looking for August 2026

Special Needs Educator approx. 70%

Your tasks

• You teach a small class together with two experienced special needs educators and social pedagogical professionals – genuine team teaching, never alone.
• You plan and support individual learning goals, step by step and concretely. Learning for us also means: enduring frustration, calming down, assessing closeness/distance, respecting boundaries, making contact without escalation.
• You maintain the classroom as a safe place: clear structure, clear language, relationships, humour, and support.
• You contribute your special needs educational perspective in collaboration with social pedagogy, psychology, and child and adolescent psychiatry.

Your qualifications

• EDK-recognised teaching diploma, preferably with completed special needs education training.
• You like children and young people even when they block, become loud, provoke, or seemingly "do not want to". You understand: behaviour has a function.
• You have humour and can remain friendly in tense moments.
• You have resilience: you stay calm, set clear boundaries, and maintain the relationship.
• You want to think along, take responsibility, and actively help shape this setting.

What we offer

• Meaningful work in a setting that thinks traumapedagogically: security and relationships first – then learning.
• An interdisciplinary team with an open culture. This includes supervision, joint reflection – and colleagues who are direct, humorous, versatile, and sometimes challenging: honest, clear, not sensitive, but committed.
• Internal training through the Bühl Academy as well as participation in professional additional qualifications.
• Progressive pension fund solution with a 60% employer contribution.

Good accessibility by public transport as well as parking spaces within walking distance.

Does this sound like your place? Then we look forward to your application or your call.

We look forward to hearing from you!

For further information, please contact:

Marcel Winter

Co-Head TWSG (Therapeutic Residential School Group)

Tel. +41 44 783 17 52

Applications by post are possible, but the dossier will not be returned.