Social Pedagogue (80%)

Key information

  • Publication date:03 September 2025
  • Workload:80%
  • Contract type:Unlimited employment
  • Place of work:Elgg

Job summary

Join our innovative institution in Elgg, focusing on children with challenging backgrounds. Be part of a supportive work environment offering professional growth.

Tasks

  • Actively shape the living and learning environment for youth.
  • Support and promote emotional and social development in daily life.
  • Collaborate interdisciplinary and manage cases with families.

Skills

  • Degree in Social Work or equivalent; experience with troubled youth.
  • Strong communication and social skills; resilience and flexibility.
  • Willingness to work irregular hours and participate in camps.

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In our boarding school, we provide inpatient care and treatment for 55 children and adolescents with a challenging biography 365 days a year, socially pedagogically, curatively pedagogically, and therapeutically. We work with the methodology of competence orientation in the inpatient setting (KOSS). The residential groups are located in Elgg and three surrounding communities. Immediately or by arrangement, we are looking for a social pedagogue (80%) for residential group 2 in Elgg with 8 adolescents between 12 and 16 years old. (Requirement is a driver's license for manual cars and 1 year of driving experience) Your area of responsibility
  • Active shaping of the living, learning, and development environment of the children/adolescents
  • Accompanying, supporting, and promoting in everyday life, especially in the emotional and social area
  • Interdisciplinary collaboration
  • Administrative tasks
  • Taking over case management of two adolescents, including writing progress reports
  • Parent and relative counseling
Your profile
  • Completed training at a school for social work or equivalent training
  • Interest in working in the inpatient area with challenged children/adolescents and their
families
  • Special knowledge in working with challenged children/adolescents and/or families
  • Willingness to work with the competence orientation methodology KOSS
  • High professional, social, and communicative skills as well as resilience, assertiveness, and flexibility
  • Willingness for irregular working hours, night presence, and weekend service
  • Willingness to participate in leisure camps
We offer
  • A very demanding, versatile pedagogical task in a professional environment
  • Case coaching
  • 7 paid training and coaching days on the competence orientation methodology KOSS
  • Generous internal and external training opportunities
  • Annual working time model
  • No split shifts
  • Seniority gifts (from 10 years)
  • Healthy pension fund
  • Salary based on cantonal guidelines
All information at www.schulheim.ch If you want to take new paths in an innovative institution together with competent employees, we would be happy to get to know you. For further information, please contact the educational director, Ms. Judith Köstner, Tel. 052 368 62 61. The Schulheim Elgg, Judith Köstner, Bahnhofstr. 35/37, 8353 Elgg, or by email at judith.koestner@schulheim.ch looks forward to your application with photo.

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