Social Pedagogical Family Support (60% - 100%)

annea . offers social pedagogical family support, support for adolescents and young adults, visitation supervision as well as child welfare assessments - with the goal of enabling children and adolescents to have a safe and supportive environment.

annea. sees itself as a partner for families, municipalities, authorities, specialist agencies and specialists. It is committed to comprehensive support and further development in the family, child and youth welfare sectors of the cantons of Zürich, Schaffhausen, Thurgau, Appenzell Ausserrhoden and St. Gallen.

To strengthen our team, we are looking for an engaged specialist speaking German / Ukrainian / Russian / Albanian / Croatian / Turkish / Farsi / Dari / Spanish or Portuguese, who takes on responsibility and acts professionally.

As part of outreach family support, you work independently and resource-oriented - directly in the living environment of the families. Your work strengthens and empowers parents to successfully shape their everyday upbringing and makes an important contribution to child protection.

Your tasks: ###

• You accompany and coach parents in the direct upbringing environment, promote their competencies and enable them to achieve successful life management.
• You organize and supervise visits between children and separated parents.
• Within the framework of individual support, you strengthen children and adolescents in their immediate living environment.
• You recognize resources and risks in the area of child protection and create well-founded recommendations to the referring agencies.
• Systemic thinking is a matter of course for you and shapes your attitude and professional actions.
• You work participatively and resource-oriented, thereby actively contributing to the improvement of the family situation.
• You maintain case-related files and create reports according to internal specifications.
• You participate in regular progress meetings and engage in case-related exchange with other specialists.

Your profile: ###

Prerequisites for employment are:

• Completed training in social pedagogy, social work, childhood pedagogy or psychology at HF/FH or university level (For foreign degrees, we require completed recognition in Switzerland. Please attach the proof of recognition to your application. Unfortunately, we cannot consider applications without this proof.)
• At least two years of professional experience in social pedagogical work with children, adolescents and families (part-time employment is considered proportionally).

In addition, you bring:

• The ability to apply sound specialist knowledge independently and purposefully and to develop individual solutions for families.
• High ability and enthusiasm for self-organized work.
• Resilience and the ability to remain calm and set priorities in challenging situations.
• Flawless German in speaking and writing.
• Flexibility regarding scheduling as well as willingness to work evenings and occasional weekends.

We offer: ###

• An inspiring working atmosphere in a dynamic, professional social institution.
• An appreciative environment in which you can contribute your strengths and take on areas of responsibility as part of organizational development.
• A collegial team with good cohesion - while simultaneously working predominantly independently.
• Regular professional exchange with the team leadership, supervision as well as team intervision.
• Regular internal training as well as individual training opportunities.
• Possibility to perform your tasks location-independently, either in the home office or at annea.
• Possibility for team care and exchange at annea.
• For contacting the family as well as the team leadership, a business mobile phone is provided by annea.