Security Service Employee Fixed-Term 100%

About the job

Start date:

immediately or by arrangement

Workplace:

Gampelen

The Witzwil Correctional Facility enforces sentences and measures on 184 adult men in open imprisonment as well as in administrative detention under immigration law. The inmates are guided and supported in various professions in agriculture, trade, and supply according to work-educational principles. Around 140 employees work consistently towards the goal of socialisation and reducing recidivism of the prisoners. Production goals and enforcement goals do not compete but complement each other.

Your tasks

The security service performs safety, supervision, and intervention tasks daily during 24 hours in a 3-shift system. This includes in particular:

• Responsible for the safety of staff, inmates, visitors, and the protection of the public
• Responsible for the professional and proper execution of personal, presence, property, and substance controls
• Receiving and handling telephone calls
• Knowledge of procedures in emergencies and crisis situations and accompanying inmates during transfers
• Monitoring and controlling security systems and administrative tasks
• Preparing reports as well as documenting workflows and recording events
• Interdisciplinary collaboration with other departments
• Providing weekend and on-call duties on a rota basis

Your profile

• You have an impeccable reputation and a completed vocational training with a federal certificate of competence in a craft, technical, social, or commercial field
• Preferably, you bring professional experience in the security sector (correctional services, emergency services, army) and basic knowledge in self-protection
• Working with inmates, mostly from other cultural backgrounds, is both a challenge and motivation for you
• As a resilient, stable, critical, and vigilant personality, you act calmly, thoughtfully, proportionately, and purposefully even in delicate situations
• You enjoy working in a team and are interested and open to new things
• You can express yourself confidently in spoken and written form and have good digital skills
• Oral communication in the official languages German and French comes easily to you. Preferably, you have another foreign language
• You hold a Swiss driving licence category B and are mobile

We offer you

You can expect a challenging and exciting role in one of the largest agricultural enterprises in Switzerland. As a "bridge to freedom," your work makes a significant contribution to the reintegration of inmates into society. Your workplace is located in a unique natural landscape. The position is limited to six months.

Contact

We look forward to receiving your application. Please send your application documents online by 31.10.2026. For further information, please contact Markus Walther, Deputy Head of Security Service, Tel. 031 635 65 11.

About the Office for Correctional Services

The Office for Correctional Services (AJV) employs around 1000 staff within the Security Directorate of the Canton of Bern (SID) and is responsible for open and closed penal and measure enforcement for adults and juveniles. To fulfil this task, the office has four concordat correctional facilities, four regional prisons, the surveillance station at Inselspital, the detention control centre, as well as probation and enforcement services at its disposal.

https://www.ajv.sid.be.ch/de/start.html