Stadt Luzern
Luzern
15 hours ago
Team Leader Child and Youth Protection (80%) - Start: immediately or by arrangement
- 10 April 2026
- 80%
- Luzern
Job summary
Are you ready to bring your optimistic and open personality to work with children and youth in special life situations? Join us to leverage your leadership talent!
Tasks
- Lead a team of six professionals with organizational and personnel guidance.
- Implement child protection measures as mandated by authorities.
- Support, empower affected individuals, and initiate change processes.
Skills
- Degree in Social Work with further training in child protection or counseling.
- Experience in statutory social work, preferably with leadership training.
- Empathetic, organized, and reliable, with a passion for guiding youth.
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About the job
Would you like to bring your optimistic and open nature to work with children and young people in special life situations? Then you might soon support us with your leadership talent.
Your tasks
- In this role, you lead a team of six professional guardians and take on the professional, organizational, and personnel management.
- You implement child protection measures on behalf of the child and adult protection authority.
- You advise, support, and empower affected persons and initiate change processes.
- You prepare accountability reports, statements, and applications.
- You collaborate with internal and external interfaces.
- You actively participate in the further development of the area.
Your profile
- You have a university degree in social work as well as further training in child protection or in systemic or solution-oriented counseling.
- You have professional experience in statutory social work and ideally already some leadership experience or corresponding leadership training.
- As an empathetic, well-organized, and reliable person, you enjoy professionally advising and supporting children and young adults.
- You are motivated to help shape structures and modernize processes.
- You understand leadership as the ability to empower people to take responsibility and achieve goals together.
- You think strategically, make clear decisions, and implement them with assertiveness and a keen sense of priorities.