Childcare Professionals EFZ on an Hourly Wage (50-60%)

Key information

  • Publication date:28 October 2025
  • Workload:50 – 60%
  • Contract type:Unlimited employment
  • Place of work:Amriswil

Job summary

HEKS employs over 1500 staff across 35 countries. Join a vibrant team!

Tasks

  • Support and guide children aged 0-5 with empathy and creativity.
  • Facilitate smooth transitions and resolve conflicts for families.
  • Participate in concept development and team meetings actively.

Skills

  • Completed training as a childcare specialist with 3 years experience.
  • Strong verbal and written communication in German, Swiss German.
  • Experience in intercultural environments and passion for children's work.

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HEKS employs over 1500 permanent staff members. At 24 locations in Switzerland and worldwide in 35 countries, HEKS operates with 290 programs and projects amounting to around 144 million Swiss francs. In 2024, HEKS reached approximately 16 million people with its work.

HEKS pursues the vision of a just world in which the dignity of all people is respected, peace prevails, and natural living conditions are preserved. The goal is a transformation on social, economic, and political levels. HEKS contributes to improving the living conditions of people in Switzerland and worldwide, advocates for their rights, and raises awareness and mobilizes for this purpose.

Lived diversity - Inclusion is important to us:
We welcome applications regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, or sexual orientation.

Childcare Professionals EFZ on an Hourly Wage (50-60%)

The "HEKS in-fra" program offers language and integration courses for migrants and refugees at five locations in the canton of Thurgau. 75% of our participants are foreign-language women and mothers with small children. Children between 0 and 5 years learn playfully and with professional support for 5 to 12 hours per week with our well-trained childcare workers, while the parents attend a German and integration course. Our goals are based on the pedagogical concept of early childhood, where language, social learning, and play are central, and we are partners of the selective language obligation.

To complement our teams and as maternity cover, we are looking for two experienced, empathetic, and flexible professionals at the locations Weinfelden and Arbon immediately or by arrangement.


These are your main tasks:

  • You care for and accompany children with a migration background aged 0 – 5 years with empathy, attention, joy, creativity, and pedagogical skills.
  • The heterogeneous group of children looks forward to a skillful mix of free and guided sequences as well as movement and rest phases.
  • You skillfully support children and parents during transitions or in conflict situations.
  • Varied administrative tasks such as participating in concept development, creating personal child reports, or organizing the location complement your area of responsibility.
  • You are part of the overall team and contribute your experiences and ideas constructively, participating in group meetings and large team meetings.

Ideally, you bring the following:

  • You have successfully completed training as a Childcare Professional EFZ or certified child educator and have been working in early childhood for at least 3 years.
  • Ideally, you have completed further training in "Early Education, Focus on Multilingualism and Integration" and/or the canton of Thurgau's "Preschool Language Promotion" or are willing to complete it.
  • Your great joy in working with children from different cultures is noticeable; you bring experience in an intercultural environment.
  • You have very good oral and written expression in German and preferably also in Swiss German.
  • We look forward to an empathetic and communicative personality who lives and supports a participatory attitude.

You can expect from us:

  • A versatile and responsible activity  in an intercultural context
  • Working in team teaching and small groups
  • Professional expert guidance and support from the team
  • Active participation according to the modern model of role-based collaboration
  • Permanent employment on an hourly wage basis
  • Regular working hours and flexible holidays during cantonal school holidays
  • A committed, cheerful, and helpful team

Are you interested and do you have the appropriate qualifications? Then we look forward to receiving your complete application documents by November 30, 2025 exclusively via the online application portal. Please understand that email or postal applications cannot be processed.

For further information, Ms. Deborah Cambiotti, Head of Early Childhood, HEKS in-fra, is available at phone 079 966 39 69.

More information about "HEKS in-fra" can be found at  www.heks.ch/projekte/heks-infra


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