Kriegstetten
Deputy Teacher/Special Needs Educator for Individual Offer, 35-55%
- 17 June 2026
- 35 – 55%
- Permanent position
- Kriegstetten
Job summary
Our institution is a modern center for special education, addressing diverse needs. Join us for a rewarding opportunity in a supportive environment.
Tasks
- Facilitate individualized learning for children and youth in one-on-one settings.
- Develop and assess personalized educational goals in collaboration with colleagues.
- Create enriching outdoor activities connected to educational content.
Skills
- Experience working with children with challenging behaviors; interest in trauma pedagogy.
- Ability to foster self and social competencies in students.
- Creative, flexible, and resilient personality with a solution-oriented approach.
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About the job
Our institution has developed over time into a modern centre 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, boarding school, therapy, integrative special educational measures, services and administration.
In the area of day special school, we run an individual offer for six pupils of all ages in the Olten area on behalf of the public school office.
For our small class Schulinsel Fuxbau (individual offer) in Ifenthal, we are looking for a
Deputy Teacher/Special Needs Educator for Individual Offer, 35-55%, from 1 August 2026 to 31 July 2027
Actively shape...
- Teaching & Support: You accompany and support children and young people in an individual setting (mostly 1:1). You create a structured, support-oriented daily routine in the school building and during outdoor activities.
- Case Management & Support Planning: You develop and review individual support goals and work closely with colleagues.
- Teamwork: You enrich our team with your skills to promote the pupils' self- and social competence and to create an action-oriented learning environment.
- Nature & Experiential Education: Together with the team, you develop meaningful links between nature and experiential education and the school content.
Enrich us with...
- Experience & Attitude: You enjoy working with children and young people with challenging behaviour and bring a relationship-oriented basic attitude.
- Expertise: Ideally, you have experience in trauma pedagogy, autism spectrum and/or attachment-based pedagogy or are interested in further developing yourself in these areas.
- Affinity with Nature: You enjoy being outdoors and like outdoor activities, regardless of the weather.
- Personality: You are creative, flexible and bring a solution-oriented and resilient personality.
At "focus youth"
- We offer space for participation and personal development
- We support internal and external training and further education opportunities above average
- Opportunity for intervision and external supervision
- We are open to new things and implement them as far as possible
- We rely on shared values as well as innovation
- We support part-time work, also in management positions
- We enable home office (depending on the situation)
- We appreciate our employees with regular staff events and department excursions
- Contemporary working conditions are a matter of course
- We enable flexible work arrangements
- 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-serving employees receive generous long-service gifts
- We offer discounted (or free in the housing area) catering options
- We grant unpaid leave
- Free parking spaces are available
Contact
Heide Hergarten
Head of Family Support & Individual Offers
T +41 79 262 24 61
