Dipl. Social Pedagogue, 60-80%

Our institution has developed over time into a modern center for special education, which covers today's needs in the special and social pedagogical field with a diverse range of services. Around 240 people work in the areas of special school, housing, therapy, services, and administration.

The housing area offers socially pedagogically qualified support to children and adolescents in six residential groups in cooperation with the parents.

Do you love the challenge of inspiring and accompanying young people? Do you enjoy working with their families? Do you see the opportunities to contribute your skills and experience with us to have a positive impact on the lives of our children and adolescents and their family systems? Then you are right with us!

For the residential group team "Hangar" in Derendingen, we are looking for a:

Dipl. Social Pedagogue, 60-80%

Actively shape...

• Meaningful work: You actively shape the everyday life of young people and give them support, orientation, and new impulses. In doing so, you accompany adolescents on their way to independence and support them in entering the professional world.
• Team spirit: You work interdisciplinarily, networked, and on equal footing – with colleagues, families, and specialist agencies.
• Responsibility & scope for design: As a team member, you take on departmental tasks, contribute your ideas, and develop new paths together with the team.
• Quality: You work according to the KOA approach and attachment-guided intervention and strengthen trust in young people – and their systems – through reliable relationships and cooperative processes so that they feel safe, can grow, and develop new perspectives.
• Variety & challenge: No day is like the other – and that is exactly what makes working with us so special.

Enrich us with...

• Interest in people and their stories
• Completed studies in social pedagogy (FH/HF) or equivalent training
• Experience working with children and adolescents and their social networks is an advantage
• Sense of responsibility, humor in everyday life
• Willingness to identify with the values and culture of focus youth
• Joy and commitment to working in an interdisciplinary context
• Special knowledge in working with burdened children/adolescents and their families
• Flexibility and willingness to work in shifts
• Team and reflection skills
• Driver's license category B for excursions, etc.

At "focus youth"

• We offer space for participation and personal development
• We support internal and external training and further education opportunities above average
• We are open to new things and implement them as much as possible
• We rely on shared values as well as innovation
• We support part-time work, also in management positions
• We enable home office (situationally)
• We appreciate our employees with regular staff events and department outings
• Contemporary working conditions are a matter of course
• We enable flexible work design
• Mothers receive 16 weeks of paid maternity leave
• We offer above-average pension fund and insurance solutions
• We provide generous continued salary payments in case of illness and accident (720 days full salary)
• Long-term employees receive generous service anniversary gifts
• We offer discounted (or free in the housing area) catering options
• We grant unpaid leave
• Free parking spaces are available

Contact

Markus Magnenat

Head of Housing Department

T +41 32 674 66 49