Social Worker in Youth and Family Counseling, kjz Winterthur, 60 - 90%

The Office for Youth and Career Counseling of the Department of Education provides, orders, manages, and coordinates services for child and youth welfare and career counseling. The kjz Winterthur (Child and Youth Welfare Center) is a polyvalent counseling center for families, parents, adolescents, children, and toddlers and operates on the basis of the Child and Youth Welfare Act of the Canton of Zurich.

To provide relief, the Youth and Family Counseling (JFB) of the kjz Winterthur is looking for a social worker 60 - 90% starting in January 2027.
The position is limited to one year with the option of extension.

As a legal guardian (Beiständin/Beistand), you will implement civil law child protection measures, undertake child welfare assessments on behalf of the KESB, and advise families, children, and adolescents according to their mandates. The counseling covers a wide spectrum of topics regarding family organization, upbringing, separation and divorce, visitation rights problems, and child protection issues. Great importance is placed on good and close cooperation with authorities, schools, institutions, and specialist agencies.

You bring with you:

• Education from a Swiss University of Applied Sciences in Social Work
• Experience in youth and family welfare as well as statutory social work
• Optionally additional training in systemic, solution-oriented counseling
• Empathy for people in special life situations
• Negotiation-secure presentation skills
• Resilient personality
• Good written skills

We offer you:

• Good introduction and coaching by the department head
• Collegial professional exchange as well as intervision and supervision
• Demanding, meaningful, and independent activity
• Lively work that takes place in the midst of the lives of the most diverse population groups
• Supportive interdisciplinary team
• Fair employment conditions according to cantonal guidelines

Regula Kupper, the kjz head (Tel. 043 259 94 30), is happy to answer further questions. We look forward to your online application. www.ajb.zh.ch