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

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

The Office for Youth and Vocational Counseling of the Department of Education provides, orders, manages, and coordinates services for child and youth welfare and vocational 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.

The Youth and Family Counseling (JFB) of kjz Winterthur is seeking a Social Worker 60 - 90% as relief starting January 2027.
The position is limited to one year with an option for extension.

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

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-level 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 middle of the lives of the most diverse population groups
• Supportive interdisciplinary team
• Fair employment conditions according to cantonal guidelines

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