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 Leben
GermanMid-level

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

ARTISET
GermanSenior

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 Kantonsspital
GermanJunior125 days ago

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 Psychiatrie
German19 days ago

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 Hochdorf
German6 days ago

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 & Sprecher
GermanLead70–100%

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 Nebikon
GermanMid-level80%

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

Brändi
GermanMid-level80%3 days ago

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 Emmen
GermanMid-level50%10 days ago

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 Luzern
GermanMid-level10%10 days ago

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

Languages required

All roles100%
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

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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.

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