Curative Educator

The Bühl Foundation offers school, training, and socio-pedagogical support for children and adolescents with cognitive impairments or learning disabilities. This also includes the Therapeutic Residential School Group (TWSG).

The TWSG is a closely supervised program for children and adolescents with a dual diagnosis: cognitive impairment plus mental disorder (e.g., anxiety, trauma consequences, emotional instability) affecting behavior. These young people currently need a lot of security, understanding, and clear structure because a regular class or residential group overwhelms them. School and living take place in the same location. A maximum of five adolescents, fixed reference persons, clear routines instead of constant pressure. Challenging behavior is seen as a signal – every behavior has a good reason. We offer a safe place where stabilization, 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

Curative Educator approx. 70%

Your tasks

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

Your qualifications

• EDK-recognized teaching diploma, preferably with completed curative pedagogical training.
• You like children and adolescents even when they block, become loud, provoke, or seemingly "do not want to." You understand: behavior has a function.
• You have humor 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 in terms of dream pedagogy: security and relationship 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-Leader TWSG (Therapeutic Residential School Group)

Tel. +41 44 783 17 52

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