Personal Assistant in a regular school in Herzogenbuchsee 30–35 %

Start of position:

1. October 2026 or by arrangement, the position is limited until 31. July 2027

Workplace:

Herzogenbuchsee

The PHBern awards around 800 teaching diplomas per year and is thus one of the large Pedagogical Universities of Switzerland. Equally significant is its commitment to further education and to services for teachers and school leaders as well as its profession-related research, development and evaluation.

The Institute for Special Needs Education trains teachers for teaching in special schools and for integrative support in regular classes.

The Further Education in Special Needs Education offers specific programs for school special education teachers, specialists in speech therapy and psychomotorics as well as teachers. Institutions and companies within and outside the Canton of Bern can also use corresponding further education offers.

The Special Needs Education Advisory Service supports specialists from school special education, speech therapy and psychomotorics as well as teachers through consultations, practice support groups and supervisions. This offer is also available to institutions and companies.

Your tasks

• Accompanying a boy with impairments in perception and social-emotional development, who attends the regular school in Cycle 3.
• You get to know the student precisely and mediate between him and other persons, in the sense of <<interpreting>> and transporting needs, interests, wishes, thoughts.
• You are in regular exchange with the involved teachers, but have no professional educational mandate.
• You take on relieving and supporting tasks, especially before and after lessons, in break situations or in challenging situations.
• You are in regular exchange with an advisory person from the PHBern.

Your profile

• You enjoy working well with children and in an interdisciplinary team.
• You can observe precisely, empathize with other people and encounter your counterpart respectfully.
• You can integrate into a team and take on responsibility if necessary.
• You think solution-oriented and creatively.
• You are willing to acquire specialist knowledge.
• You are very flexible in terms of time and are available for 2-3 hours on 3 to 5 weekdays.
• You have good oral German skills and can present an impeccable private extract from the criminal register.

We offer you

• Employment conditions according to cantonal guidelines
• Support from a dedicated team
• Annual working time, which is divided into 39 school weeks, i.e. you have no obligations during the school holidays.
• The working hours are generally Monday--Friday mornings from 08.00--12.00, possibly also in the afternoons. Plus meetings by arrangement.

Contact

Your questions will be answered by:
Mareike Behounek, Operative Leitung Persönliche Assistenz
(mareike.behounek@phbern.ch)

We are happy to receive your application in a single PDF file until 11. September 2026.

We do not consider application documents from recruitment agencies.