Brändi
Willisau
Department Head
- 23 October 2026
- 70 – 90%
- Permanent position
About the job
Department Head
Living - Care | Willisau | 70% - 90% | from 01.01.2027 or by arrangement
You want to actively help shape and contribute to the inclusion of people with disabilities? Then you are exactly right with us. Together we make more possible.
Learn more about Living Willisau - centrally located, just a few minutes' walk from Willisau station.
Learn more about Living Willisau - centrally located, just a few minutes' walk from Willisau station.
Your Tasks
- Establishing an additional intensive setting: To establish a new intensive residential group for people with cognitive and psychological impairments as well as challenging behaviours (HEVE), we are looking for a committed leader for management or co-management.
- Leadership and team development: Professional and personnel management of the 12-member team as well as promoting a trusting collaboration and an open, constructive feedback and learning culture.
- Educational management and processes: Operational management of daily residential group life, ensuring individual support plans and shaping milieu-therapeutic and relationship-oriented conditions in the intensive setting.
- Interfaces and departmental work: Close cooperation with the Agogic & Intake department as well as interdisciplinary collaboration with specialist services, psychiatric clinics and therapists.
- Presence and overall responsibility: Assuming budget, duty roster and resource responsibility as well as taking on on-call, evening and weekend duties.
Your Profile
- Professional foundation: Completed training in social pedagogy HF/FH or a comparable field as well as leadership experience or willingness for professional and personal development in the leadership role.
- Personality: A clear and reflective attitude, empathy and enthusiasm for joint development as well as the ability to remain calm, provide orientation and act solution-oriented even in challenging situations.
- Passion for inclusion: Ability to effectively implement inclusion even in challenging support settings.
- Appreciative and supportive: Structured and supportive induction with coaching and internal training to prepare for leadership tasks. Active support in cases of boundary violations through the violence reporting office, incorporating the Graubünden standard and professional aftercare.
Why Brändi
- Appreciative: We treat each other with respect, on equal footing and create meaningful things together.
- Empowering: We support you and offer you freedom through participation in further training and a diverse internal course programme.
- Family-friendly: We pay an additional social allowance for families and contributions towards the costs of external childcare.
- Mobility and discounts: We offer contributions to public or slow transport, discounted parking spaces as well as affordable catering in staff restaurants.
- Discover all advantages and learn more at: Why Brändi
Apply now via our online portal - straightforward and informal.
Contact
Living Willisau
Daniel Meier | Department Head
Bleuen 8 | 6130 Willisau | Tel 041 972 71 47
Contact
Living Willisau
Daniel Meier | Department Head
Bleuen 8 | 6130 Willisau | Tel 041 972 71 47
Together making more possible for people with disabilities
