Social Pedagogue for our Residential Training, 60 - 70%

About the job

Social pedagogue for our residential training, 60 - 70%

The socio-pedagogical-psychiatric model ward SOMOSA offers a 9- to 12-month intensive inpatient treatment program for 14- to 18-year-old clients who are in a severe adolescent crisis.

The goal of the treatment is to stabilize the adolescents in their personality to the extent that they can cope with the existing supportive or replacement socialization systems upon discharge.

The setting and therapeutic tools consist of elements of psychiatric milieu therapy, structures analogous to socio-pedagogical residential facilities, as well as a psychotherapy offer corresponding to an open psychotherapy ward with 365-day operation.

As a possible follow-up solution to our inpatient therapy program, our external residential training is offered.

The adolescents are cared for mainly in the evenings with supportive socio-pedagogical guidance from experienced professionals. We understand residential training in a broad sense as life training, where training partly means learning certain skills through repeated practice. It requires more self-responsibility from the adolescents but also offers more freedom compared to an inpatient residential group.

The adolescents usually engage in an external activity during the day or participate in the program in our own day structure. Therefore, care mainly takes place in the evenings and only very rarely on weekends.

To complement our residential training team, we are looking for

a social pedagogue HFS/FHS/Uni

60 - 70% immediately or by arrangement

Together with 2 colleagues, you are responsible for the care of 4 male and 3 female clients in the two apartments located close to each other.

For the implementation of the SOMOSA-specific therapeutic-pedagogical concept, you work together with colleagues from socio-pedagogical, psychiatric, psychotherapeutic, and work-agogic fields.

Your ability and experience in dealing with psychopathological disorders enable you to independently and with your team realize the goals of the development plan of our adolescents. As a new team member, you gladly contribute to an organizational culture characterized by mutual learning as an innovative process, openness and transparency, efficient work, and yet learning from mistakes.

Your area of responsibility

• Case management and key worker role over a longer period
• Co-development and implementation of individual treatment plans within the framework of key worker activities
• Training of everyday, self, and social skills in group and individual settings
• Design of leisure time and weekly organization
• Participation in projects and working groups, preparation of documentation and reporting

Your profile

• Training as a social pedagogue HFS / FHS / Uni
• Experience in social work tasks
• Experience in adolescent psychiatric inpatient care desirable
• Self-organized and independent work in a small team
• Working days Monday to Wednesday
• Willingness for irregular working hours, mainly evenings, no weekends
• Willingness for flexible assignments
• Driver's license category B desirable

You can expect an exciting workplace from us as well as

• Versatile, interesting, close interdisciplinary collaboration
• Room for initiative, responsibility, and personal development
• Internal and external training opportunities with time and financial support
• At least 25 days of vacation
• Internal social staff events
• Pension fund affiliated with the "Pension Fund of the City of Zurich"
• The employment conditions are progressive, based on the cantonal Zurich guidelines
• Excellent public transport connection
• Free parking spaces available at the SOMOSA main building
• Eulach park area in immediate vicinity
• Attractive fringe benefits

Application deadline and further information

Applications are reviewed continuously.

For verbal information, Ms. Karin Büchi-Amacker, group leader WG D and WT, is happy to assist you. Phone 052 244 50 00

Please send your written application with the usual documents, preferably by e-mail: personal@somosa.ch

Model ward SOMOSA

Human Resources Department

Ms. Miriam Wäfler

Zum Park 20

8404 Winterthur