Social Care jobs in Lucerne
- 58 open roles
- 8 posted in the last 7 days
- 38 employers hiring
- Updated 2 Nov 2026
Nurse or Social Pedagogue in Residential Care
SSBL Stiftung für selbstbestimmtes und begleitetes LebenGermanMid-level
Nurse or Social Pedagogue in Residential Care
SSBL Stiftung für selbstbestimmtes und begleitetes Leben
What you would do
- Act as case manager, actively shaping residents' daily lives and promoting their resources and potentials.
- Provide basic and treatment nursing alongside pedagogical support.
- Support a nursing team with in-depth specialist knowledge.
- Collaborate interdisciplinarily with internal and external specialist agencies.
- Take responsibility as specialist and case manager.
- Exchange appreciatively with relatives and legal representatives.
Skills
Nursing (HF/FH)Social Pedagogy (HF/FH)Case ManagementBasic NursingTreatment Nursing
Program Director and Lecturer
ARTISETGermanSenior
Program Director and Lecturer
ARTISET
What you would do
- Lead a study program and support students in practice and the training process.
- Teach in social pedagogical methodology, didactics, case work, and personality development.
- Accompany projects and diploma theses.
- Assess performance records.
- Participate in the admission process.
- Contribute to team cooperation and further development of the training program.
Skills
Social PedagogyDidacticsCase WorkAdult Education TeachingProgram Leadership
Medical Practice Assistant or Healthcare Assistant Pneumology Outpatient Clinic
Luzerner KantonsspitalGermanJunior125 days ago
Medical Practice Assistant or Healthcare Assistant Pneumology Outpatient Clinic
Luzerner Kantonsspital
What you would do
- Performing pneumological tests such as spirometries, body plethysmographies and bronchoprovocation tests; taking arterial and venous blood samples; assisting with bronchoscopies, pleural punctures, pleural drainages and spiroergometries; administering sedation during bronchoscopies under medical supervision after training; electronic patient documentation, service recording and logistical tasks.
Skills
SpirometryBody PlethysmographyBronchoprovocation TestingArterial Blood SamplingVenous Blood Sampling
Social Pedagogue or Nurse
Luzerner PsychiatrieGerman19 days ago
Social Pedagogue or Nurse
Luzerner Psychiatrie
What you would do
- Provide psychiatric nursing and social pedagogical care in an acute psychiatric emergency and inpatient setting.
- Support patients with acute self- or external danger.
- Coordinate with the central registration and coordination center (ZAK) and emergency services.
- Deliver group and individual therapy, crisis intervention, and care planning for children, adolescents, and adults.
Skills
Psychiatric NursingCrisis InterventionAcute CareSocial PedagogyGroup Therapy
Social Pedagogue
Schule HochdorfGerman6 days ago
Social Pedagogue
Schule Hochdorf
What you would do
- Accompany a child with socio-emotional developmental disorders in daily school life.
- Strengthen the child's resources.
- Support the child in challenging situations.
- Help the child find their place in the class.
- Build relationships with the child.
- Develop solutions.
Skills
Social PedagogyChild SupportSocio-emotional DevelopmentBehavioral SupportRelationship Building
Head of Vocational Integration and Job Coaching
Medici & SprecherGermanLead70–100%
Head of Vocational Integration and Job Coaching
Medici & Sprecher
What you would do
- Lead a team delivering vocational integration and job coaching measures in the first labor market.
- Ensure sustainable, high-quality integration measures to the satisfaction of referring bodies.
- Develop the team and shape its further development.
- Manage business and organizational aspects.
- Build and maintain relationships with referring bodies such as IV, Social Offices, ALV, and SMEs in Central Switzerland.
- Participate in change processes and shape structures, responsibilities, and cooperation.
Skills
Vocational IntegrationJob CoachingTeam LeadershipBusiness AdministrationStakeholder Management
School Social Worker
Schulsozialarbeit NebikonGermanMid-level80%
School Social Worker
Schulsozialarbeit Nebikon
What you would do
- Serve as first point of contact for children, adolescents, parents, and teachers on psychosocial issues and challenging life situations.
- Strengthen children and adolescents in overcoming personal difficulties and developing competencies.
- Deliver preventive offers and work solution-oriented with individuals, groups, and whole classes.
- Coordinate and network with specialist agencies to provide comprehensive support.
- Work as a member of the socio-emotional learning (seL) specialist team, developing school support offers in this area.
- Collaborate with school social pedagogues and school management.
Skills
Social Work DegreeSocial PedagogySystemic CounselingSolution-Oriented ApproachProject Work
Job Coach
BrändiGermanMid-level80%3 days ago
Job Coach
Brändi
What you would do
- Execute and take responsibility for integration measures for IV positions (integration measures, vocational measures, job coaching).
- Manage cases and organize vocational integration.
- Coach clients and take case responsibility.
- Collaborate interdisciplinarily with IV, therapists, guardians, relatives, and internal specialists.
- Acquire new companies and cooperate with existing contacts for internships.
- Visit clients at external workplaces.
Skills
Job CoachingSupported EmploymentCase ManagementSocial Insurance (IV)Psychosocial Support
Social Worker Social Services
Gemeindeverwaltung EmmenGermanMid-level50%10 days ago
Social Worker Social Services
Gemeindeverwaltung Emmen
What you would do
- Conduct independent social investigations (Abklärungen) into the circumstances of adults, children and youth.
- Lead demanding interviews with affected adults, children and adolescents.
- Weigh facts professionally with the presiding authority member regarding the necessity of child or adult protection measures.
- Write social investigation reports with recommendations to the KESB authority.
- Support and counsel affected persons during the investigation process.
- Connect affected persons with subsidiary support services.
Skills
Social Work Degree (FH/BSc)Child & Adult Protection Law (KESB)Social Investigations (Abklärungen)Social Assessment Report WritingCase Management
Night Care Staff
Kanton LuzernGermanMid-level10%10 days ago
Night Care Staff
Kanton Luzern
What you would do
- Ensure overnight peace and provide medical and nursing support to children and youth with cognitive disabilities; supervise one to two residential groups of roughly four to eight children/adolescents; ensure information handover to the day team for smooth day-night transitions; document incidents and special occurrences during the night; perform small administrative tasks; attend team meetings.
Skills
Nursing CareNight Shift CareCare DocumentationCare of Cognitively Impaired YouthPflegefachperson FH/HF
Healthcare Assistant
Spitex novacareGermanJunior80–100%
Healthcare Assistant
Spitex novacare
What you would do
- Provide independent care and support to clients in their homes.
- Perform basic and treatment care according to medical prescription.
- Carry out medical-technical procedures.
- Observe and assess clients' health status.
- Maintain complete and traceable nursing documentation.
- Coordinate and plan home visits with Nexus PEPS.
Skills
Basic and Treatment CareMedical-Technical ProceduresHealth Status AssessmentNursing DocumentationNexus PEPS
Caregiver
Tragwerk LuzernGermanJunior
Caregiver
Tragwerk Luzern
What you would do
- Care for visitors and distribute meals.
- Motivate clients to participate.
- Enforce house rules.
- Advise on everyday matters including triage to internal and external specialist agencies.
- Participate in projects and working groups.
- Handle administrative tasks.
Skills
Social PedagogySocial SupportAddiction SupportPsychiatric CareTriage
Healthcare Assistant Apprentice
Heim im BergliGermanJunior
Healthcare Assistant Apprentice
Heim im Bergli
What you would do
- Supporting residents in daily living and care activities.
- Assisting with personal care and hygiene.
- Helping with mobility and daily tasks.
- Participating in care planning and documentation.
- Working as part of a care team in a residential care home.
Skills
Personal Care AssistanceElderly CareHygiene SupportCare DocumentationMobility Assistance
Healthcare Professional EFZ / Caregiver EFZ with Treatment Nursing Course
MurhofGermanMid-level60–100%
Healthcare Professional EFZ / Caregiver EFZ with Treatment Nursing Course
Murhof
What you would do
- Providing comprehensive, needs-oriented, holistic care and support to residents.
- Applying professional nursing knowledge in daily care.
- Taking over house responsibility.
- Executing daily ward responsibility and coordinating daily work processes.
- Maintaining proper nursing documentation.
- Maintaining contact with relatives.
Skills
Treatment NursingNursing DocumentationHolistic Patient CareWard CoordinationHouse Responsibility
Social Pedagogue
MariazellGermanMid-level80%10 days ago
Social Pedagogue
Mariazell
What you would do
- Providing competency-oriented socio-pedagogical support to students in a residential group, including night shifts, camps and group weekends; working intensively in an interdisciplinary team; sharing responsibility for project planning, key-worker work and support planning; conducting parent collaboration; supervising social pedagogy students; contributing to internal and cross-departmental projects and working groups; participating in departmental and institutional activities.
Skills
Socio-pedagogical SupportSupport PlanningParent CollaborationInterdisciplinary TeamworkStudent Supervision
Healthcare Assistant
Luzerner KantonsspGermanJunior33 days ago
Healthcare Assistant
Luzerner Kantonssp
What you would do
- Care for outpatients from various surgical departments.
- Assist with small sterile surgical procedures and infiltrations.
- Care for patients before, during, and after examinations.
- Provide telephone information.
- Perform administrative activities and manage appointments.
- Ensure smooth outpatient clinic operations and efficient administrative processes.
Skills
FaGe CertificationSurgical AssistanceSterile ProceduresPatient CareAppointment Management
Social Pedagogue HF/FH or Registered Nurse Psychiatry
Stiftung Villa EricaGermanMid-level
Social Pedagogue HF/FH or Registered Nurse Psychiatry
Stiftung Villa Erica
What you would do
- Take case management responsibility for adolescents and young adults with mental impairments and challenging behavior.
- Act as primary contact person with professionalism and clarity.
- Accompany young people in daily life, conduct conversations, and support them in recognizing and developing their resources.
- Work closely with internal training companies.
- Coordinate cooperation with relatives, legal representatives, IV offices, and other specialists.
- Participate in support planning, progress meetings, reporting, and further development of processes.
Skills
Case ManagementPrimary Contact WorkPsychiatric NursingSocial PedagogySupport Planning
School Social Pedagogue
Gemeindeschule MeggenGermanMid-level50–60%17 days ago
School Social Pedagogue
Gemeindeschule Meggen
What you would do
- Conduct universal prevention work with all learners (kindergarten to 3rd secondary) in cooperation with SSA, including concept development and evaluation of prevention offerings in classes.
- Perform high-threshold case work for learners with behavioral challenges, including development and promotion planning and process documentation.
- Implement, coordinate, and evaluate social pedagogical interventions with case responsibility within the SA team.
- Involve and cooperate with parents.
- Collaborate interdisciplinarily with teachers, school management, and specialist departments.
- Network with other school social pedagogues and develop professional-political awareness of the role.
Skills
Social Work MethodsNew Authority ApproachSystemic ThinkingCase ManagementPrevention Program Design
Sociocultural Animator Youth
Einwohnergemeinde InwilGermanJunior30%Hybrid
Sociocultural Animator Youth
Einwohnergemeinde Inwil
What you would do
- Build up open children's and youth work across the municipalities of Inwil, Ballwil and Eschenbach.
- Plan and run regular activities and offers for children and young people.
- Initiate and support participatory projects with and for youth.
- Supervise the youth centre (Jugendtreff) and support young people on site.
- Network and collaborate closely with schools, external organisations and neighbouring municipalities.
- Work partly at off-peak times (Wednesday afternoons and Friday evenings).
Skills
Sociocultural AnimationSocial WorkSocial PedagogyYouth AnimationParticipatory Project Work
Specialist Social Work
Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek LuzernGermanMid-level20%14 days ago
Specialist Social Work
Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek Luzern
What you would do
- Manage the Social Work subject department and decide on acquisitions of books, e-books, databases, journals and e-journals.
- Work on content cataloging of media according to GND and RVK.
- Deliver information literacy workshops on literature research, source handling and literature management, including AI topics.
- Advise students and lecturers on research questions and scientific literature searches.
- Represent the library in the Education Steering Group of the Department of Social Work.
- Support Open Science and research data management topics.
Skills
GND/RVK CatalogingAcquisitions ManagementLiterature ResearchInformation Literacy InstructionScientific Literature Search
Languages required
All roles
100%
GermanOther
Industries
- Healthcare53
- Education14
- Public Sector8
- Pharma5
- Consulting4
- Non-profit4
Employers
- SSBL Stiftung für selbstbestimmtes und begleitetes Leben10
- Kiana Group4
- Luzerner Kantonsspital4
- Stadt Luzern3
- Kanton Luzern3
- Tertianum2
Skills
- Case Management18
- Social Pedagogy14
- Interdisciplinary Collaboration13
- PC Skills9
- Crisis Intervention7
- Administrative Skills7
Seniority and workload
- Junior48%
- Mid-level46%
- Senior4%
- Lead2%
- 100% only7%
- Range up to 100%30%
- Part-time63%
New roles per week
Questions
How many social care jobs are open in Lucerne?
58 open roles, 8 of them posted in the last 7 days.
Who is hiring?
SSBL Stiftung für selbstbestimmtes und begleitetes Leben, Kiana Group, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Stadt Luzern have the most open roles.
Which languages are required?
German is the most common requirement (100% of roles).
How we count
Open social care roles in the Lucerne area, checked daily. Workload is taken from the posting text where stated. Recruitment agencies are excluded from the role sample.