Team Leader Remand Prison 80 - 100%

About the job

We do what works.

Correctional Services and Reintegration

Team Leader Remand Prison

As part of UGZ, the Zurich West Prison is located in the Police and Justice Centre Zurich and has 241 detention places. It specialises in provisional detention as well as remand custody and plays a key role in the admission and initial care of detained persons.

We are looking immediately or by arrangement for Zurich West Prison for a committed, dynamic and humorous leadership personality. You bear the personnel responsibility for the supervision and care team and accompany the admitted persons in their daily prison life. You strengthen their resources, promote relationship building and shape group detention. In doing so, you promote normality and stability, prevent crises and act confidently in difficult situations. You ensure quality, further develop the operation and work in a regulated shift system with weekend, night and special duties.

This is what you achieve with us

• As a member of the remand prison management team, you lead your employees professionally and personally and promote their professional and personal development through targeted training and further education
• You coordinate and organise the operational day-to-day business and ensure smooth processes
• You are responsible for administrative processes and ensure forward-looking personnel deployment planning
• You recognise crisis and emergency situations early and act safely and consistently according to the applicable safety protocols

This is what you bring with you

• You have a Swiss Federal VET Diploma (EFZ), a (specialist) Matura or an equivalent qualification
• You have initial leadership experience or have completed corresponding leadership training – both are advantageous
• You have very good German skills, master at least one other language and are confident in handling IT applications
• You bring resilience, assertiveness and conflict competence and meet your colleagues as well as admitted persons confidently and respectfully even in challenging situations
• You are at least 25 years old and have an impeccable reputation as well as a criminal record and debt enforcement register extract without entries

Your contact

Jan Streitberg

Deputy Prison Director & Head of Remand Prison

+41 43 257 30 04

Birgit Eberle

Senior Recruiter

+41 43 258 50 24

Dear personnel service providers! Unfortunately, we cannot consider dossiers associated with fee demands. Only direct applications will be answered and considered in the selection process.

About us

The Zurich Remand Prisons (UGZ) are one of eight main departments of JuWe. They comprise seven facilities with around 735 prison places and about 500 employees. They are responsible for provisional detention, remand and security custody as well as early enforcement of sentences and measures until transfer to a correctional facility. Thus, they fulfil a central function within the Zurich justice system from the outset.

As employees of the Zurich Remand Prisons, we ensure structured and humane care of admitted persons with expertise and commitment and contribute to orderly conduct of criminal proceedings before guilt or innocence is decided.

With around 1400 employees, Correctional Services and Reintegration (JuWe) is the largest office within the Directorate of Justice and Home Affairs and is responsible for the enforcement of sentences and measures as well as for the execution of various types of custody. Our employees from around 40 professions support and promote the reintegration of offenders and are committed effectively and progressively to a safe and just society.

Our application process

Online assessment

First interview (online)

Second interview (on-site)

Final decision