Social Worker 80% in Supported Living and Day Care

Burghof in motion, we shape the future
The Burghof is an institution of the Stiftung Zürcher Kinder- und Jugendheime and offers 44 places for male adolescents and young adults aged 14 to 25 with social, educational, and professional integration needs.
The offer includes four supervised residential groups (3 apprentice houses, 1 observation station), Supported Living in shared apartments or single apartments, Day Care, internal vocational training offers in nine training companies, the internal school (VBH), the Training & Orientation area, as well as the psychiatric-psychological service (PPD).
From January 2027, we will expand our offer in Supported Living by eight places.
We offer a diverse, flexible, and modularized range of services in the care, training, promotion, and support of adolescents and young adults.
We are looking for committed professionals who want to actively shape the expansion together with us and create new perspectives.

We stabilize, rehabilitate, and integrate adolescents. In the future, even more life-world oriented, comprehensive, and networked.

As of 1 January 2027 or by arrangement, new positions will be created in the new offerings of Supported Living and Day Care. If you want to become part of our team, then please apply for one of the positions as

Social Worker 80-100% ##

Your daily routine ###

In this versatile function, you will accompany and care for adolescents and young adults in our two offerings, Day Care and Supported Living. In doing so, you move between direct accompaniment in everyday life, social-pedagogical key person work, and the further development of our still young offerings.

In Day Care, you take over the social-pedagogical responsibility during the day for the adolescents who are completing training at the Burghof. You are a reliable contact person for them, support them with personal, social, and training-related topics, and shape a sustainable daily structure together with them. This also includes accompaniment during lunchtime as well as close cooperation with the companies and other internal specialists.
In Supported Living, you accompany adolescents and young adults on their way to an increasingly independent life. The young people live in apartments outside of the Burghof and are visited and accompanied by you regularly in their own living environment. Together, you work on individual topics such as household management, finances, administration, training and work, health, social relationships, and independent life management.

Furthermore, you take on key person work, conduct interviews and assessments, work together with legal guardians, referring agencies, and other specialist offices, and document the accompaniment process.
Since the two offerings are still being built up and are in development, we wish for a person who enjoys thinking along, further developing existing structures, and contributing new ideas. You actively help shape workflows and social-pedagogical structures and are ready to further develop proven methods as well as new approaches together with the team.

Your skills ###

You have a degree in social work, social pedagogy, socio-cultural animation (FH or HF), psychology, or psychiatric nursing. You have a degree in social work, social pedagogy, socio-cultural animation (FH/HF), psychology, or psychiatric nursing. You enjoy working independently, can build relationships, and keep an overview and your humor even when things get turbulent. Experience in working with adolescents and young adults is an advantage.

Burghof - we create options - also for you ###

Our offer

We work with innovative concepts for interdisciplinary cooperation. Regular (case) supervisions as well as internal and external continuing education promote our professional and personal development. In addition, we offer plenty of space for conceptual and organizational co-creation.

Your advantages:

• Scope for creativity in daily work
• Flexible working hours on workdays, no on-call services
• Remuneration according to the salary regulations of the Canton of Zürich
• Responsible area of tasks with active communication
• Work in a multi-professional and committed organization
• The appealing challenge of actively shaping a growing offering

Do you want to become part of our team?
Then do not hesitate. We look forward to receiving your complete application documents in electronic form to: info.burghof@zkj.ch