Social Therapist or Nursing Specialist

About the job

As the fifth largest canton in Switzerland with around 6000 employees, we are committed to the common good of society within the cantonal administration. With an impressive variety of services, our work touches all areas of life, be it education, economy, law, security, nature, health, construction, culture, and finance. Through our meaningful work, we leave a small footprint every day, as it is relevant to over half a million people.


For these diverse and responsible tasks in the open care department, we are looking from 1 November 2026 or by arrangement for a

Social Therapist or Nursing Specialist

• Empowering admitted persons to lead a life free of offences
• Co-creating a forensic milieu-therapeutic setting
• Intensive collaboration with internal and external agencies

• Social skills in relationship building
• Respectful communication and appreciative attitude
• Administrative and digital skills, process thinking
• Degree in Social Work/Social Pedagogy or Nursing Specialist HF

• Work in a socially important context
• Varied and challenging activity in an interdisciplinary environment
• Interesting training and further education opportunities / supervision
• Attractive working conditions in shift work

Patrick Dort, Head of Social Integration, Tel. 058 228 15 07 or Dr Claudio Vannini, Director, Tel. 058 228 15 85.
Information about the St. Gallen penal system at: www.justizvollzug.sg.ch