Social Worker 60-100%
ORS
Kanton Schwyz
Key information
- Publication date:03 November 2025
- Workload:60 – 100%
- Place of work:Kanton Schwyz
Job summary
Join our team in supporting asylum seekers and refugees. This role offers a chance to make a meaningful impact in a collaborative environment.
Tasks
- Provide advice and support to residents and asylum seekers.
- Ensure continuous case management in accordance with IAS standards.
- Coordinate with specialized offices for complex issues and needs.
Skills
- Completed training in social pedagogy or social work required.
- Strong teamwork and cooperation skills are essential.
- Fluent in German (C1) and English (B2), additional languages a plus.
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- Consultation and support for residents
- Mediation of assistance services
- Ensuring continuous case management according to IAS
- Responsible for case management and advising asylum seekers and refugees. Conducting client interviews, initial consultation, assistance with everyday problems, conflict resolution, mediation and arbitration
- Coordinating, clarifying and referring to specialized agencies for issues beyond own responsibility
- Developing and implementing measures for social integration
- Taking responsibility for the completeness and correct physical and electronic file management. Taking responsibility for correct data entry / changes / case documentation
- Supporting asylum seekers according to cantonal standards and internal guidelines. Calculating and paying support benefits according to applicable standards and the subsidiarity principle. Preparing and/or correcting quarterly accounts as well as maintaining accounting lists and tables
- Preparing orders with legal remedy instructions for integration measures. Checking orders prepared by the administration
- Ensuring communication with clients and other authorities. Collaborating with other internal departments
Requirements
- Completed training in social pedagogy / social work (HF/FH)
- At least 1 year of relevant professional experience
- Cooperation and teamwork skills
- Empathy and sensitivity in dealing with people from different backgrounds
- Ability to independently implement social interventions
- Basic and user knowledge of MS Office applications
- Impeccable reputation (no entries in debt enforcement, criminal record, or special private extract)
- German | spoken: C1 | written: C1
- English | spoken: B2 | written: B2
- Additional asylum-relevant language (advantage) | spoken: B2 | written: B2
