Health Specialist EFZ – Head of Day Care Services

Welcome to your new workplace.

The Hottingen Senior Center offers you a position with a workload of 20 – 50% starting July 1, 2026, or by arrangement as

Health Specialist EFZ – Head of Day Care Services

The new day care service for people with dementia takes place on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday with working hours from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

If you also want to make a difference in people’s lives, these are your tasks:

• Ensuring professional care and activation of day guests affected by dementia
• Management and responsibility for the day care and lunch table services for people with dementia
• Independent design and assurance of an appealing daily program with suitable activities for dementia
• Collaboration with the internal home care organization of the Hottingen Senior Center, relatives, and other specialist agencies; management of the corresponding documentation

To make you feel comfortable with us, many benefits await you. To name just a few:

• Regular working days and hours (Monday, Wednesday, Friday)
• Possibility for job sharing with a smaller workload
• Possibility to increase workload in the internal home care if interested
• Own pension fund with employer’s over-obligatory contribution
• Worldwide private accident insurance
• Financial support for public transport subscription or bicycle
• Well accessible by public transport directly in the city of Zurich

All employee benefits can be found here . If you want to be the best version of yourself, you will find the opportunities with us.

This is how you convince us:

• Qualification as Health Specialist EFZ (FaGe)
• Professional experience and further training with a focus on dementia
• Very good German skills (spoken)
• Respectful and appreciative interaction with day guests and all employees
• Independent working style and organizational talent
• Experience in leading group activities is an advantage
• Our and your values: appreciation, partnership, reliability, transparency, and seeing the whole picture

For further information, please contact Rahel Wyss, Head of Nursing and Care, at T 044 397 32 33 or email rahel.wyss@residenz-neumuenster-park.ch.

Please apply via our online tool.

We want to fill this position with direct applications without the support of recruitment agencies. Thank you very much in advance for your understanding.

About the Hottingen Senior Center #LI-PZ1

The Hottingen Senior Center is an operation of the Diakoniewerk Neumünster Foundation – Swiss Nurses School. It offers 150 tenants modern assisted living for seniors. The Oase restaurant and seminar rooms are also part of it. In total, more than 50 employees work in the areas of nursing, gastronomy, housekeeping, technical service, and administration.