Social Care jobs in St. Gallen

  • 33 open roles
  • 3 posted in the last 7 days
  • 25 employers hiring
  • Updated 9 Oct 2026

Team Lead Intake/Administration

Soziale Dienste Stadt Wil
GermanLead70%Hybrid14 days ago

What you would do

  • Leading the Intake/Administration team with 5 employees.
  • Eligibility assessment for social assistance.
  • Conducting client interviews.
  • Legal clarifications on jurisdiction according to ZUG.
  • Coordination of interdepartmental administration.
  • Cooperation with team leadership, department management, and internal and external specialists.

Skills

Social Assistance Eligibility AssessmentClient InterviewsJurisdiction Clarification (ZUG)Social Insurance LawTeam Leadership

Childcare Specialist

Gemeindeverwaltung Widnau
GermanMid-level100%

What you would do

  • Care for and age-appropriately promote children aged 4 to 12 in the school day center.
  • Co-design and organize the pedagogical daily routine and participate in the lunch program.
  • Plan, structure, and implement a varied, needs-oriented daily schedule.
  • Support children in everyday activities and individual learning and development processes.
  • Maintain regular contact with teachers and parents.
  • Plan and run project weeks and parent activities.

Skills

Childcare (FaBe)Pedagogical PlanningAge-Appropriate Child DevelopmentParent CommunicationProject Week Organization

Volunteer

Liebenau Dorfplatz
German

What you would do

  • Walking residents with or without wheelchairs.
  • Assisting with dressing, playing, and play afternoons.
  • Crafting and craft afternoons.
  • Accompanying residents to the doctor and therapy pool.
  • Shopping together.
  • Accompanying on excursions.

Skills

Wheelchair AssistancePersonal Care SupportResident CompanionshipTherapy Pool AccompanimentMedical Appointment Support

Care Assistant SRK / AGS EBA Night Shift Residential IV

Stiftung Lebensart
GermanJunior80%

What you would do

  • Care for and accompany residents during the night.
  • Perform nursing and care tasks according to training and competencies.
  • Ensure safety and well-being of residents at night.
  • Document observations and care services according to internal specifications.
  • Ensure smooth processes and high care quality.
  • Work primarily in the residential group for people with disabilities, also providing services in departments for people with advanced age.

Skills

SRK Care AssistantAGS EBANight Shift CareResident DocumentationDisability Care

Child, Youth and Family Support

Fachstelle famiZ
GermanMid-level10–30%Hybrid

What you would do

  • Accompany children, adolescents and families in an outreach manner and strengthen them in development and stabilization processes.
  • Plan interventions, implement them and reflect on their effects.
  • Document work in a structured manner and report in a target-group-appropriate way.
  • Work in a network with authorities, schools and specialist agencies.
  • Contribute professional assessments to site meetings and case discussions.

Skills

Social Pedagogy (HF)Outreach WorkIntervention PlanningCase DocumentationParent Work

School Social Worker

Regionale Beratungszentrum Rapperswil-Jona
GermanMid-level45%7 days ago

What you would do

  • Provide low-threshold counseling for students.
  • Advise parents and teachers.
  • Deliver individual case help, group and class interventions.
  • Carry out prevention and project work.
  • Perform early detection and early identification.
  • Triage and collaborate with external specialist agencies.

Skills

School Social WorkCounselingCase ManagementGroup InterventionsClassroom Interventions

Team Leader Office Point

Dreischiibe
GermanLead80–100%3 days ago

What you would do

  • Provide professional guidance and pedagogical support to people with mental disabilities in IV integration measures and supported workplaces.
  • Plan and coordinate daily work and customer orders while meeting quality, deadline, and budget specifications.
  • Co-manage commercial basic training and support apprentices.
  • Ensure documentation and reporting.
  • Collaborate with internal interfaces, referring parties, authorities, specialist agencies, relatives, and external partners.
  • Contribute to developing work processes and quality standards.

Skills

IV Integration MeasuresCommercial Basic TrainingAbacusMicrosoft 365Reporting

Healthcare Assistant EFZ

Liebenau Helios
GermanJunior

What you would do

  • Care and nursing of elderly people.
  • Performing administrative, household, and medical-technical tasks.
  • Designing daily life with residents.
  • Accompanying residents and their caregivers.
  • Applying general work techniques and instruments.
  • Working in a team.

Skills

Elderly CareLong-term CareMedical-Technical TasksHousehold ManagementResident Care Planning

Social Therapist or Nursing Professional

Security and Justice Department
GermanMid-level80–100%14 days ago

What you would do

  • Enabling individuals to lead a crime-free life; co-creation of a forensic milieu-therapeutic setting; intensive collaboration with internal and external bodies; shift-based care work in open care units of a correctional measures center.

Skills

Social WorkNursing (HF)Milieu TherapyForensic CareRelationship Building

Specialist Open Child and Youth Work

Jugendnetzwerk SDM
GermanMid-level50%3 days ago

What you would do

  • Co-manage open child and youth work operations in Diepoldsau within the specialist team.
  • Plan and implement needs- and target-group-oriented offers and events.
  • Handle budget control and funding applications.
  • Design participation and engagement processes.
  • Represent the JNW SDM and contribute youth needs to municipal bodies such as the Youth Commission.
  • Participate in regional offer design and the specialist team.

Skills

Social Work DiplomaSocial PedagogyYouth WorkBudget ControlFunding Applications

Languages required

All roles91%
GermanNone statedOther

Industries

  • Healthcare30
  • Public Sector9
  • Non-profit7
  • Education4
  • Technology3
  • Consulting2

Employers

  • Kita Gossau3
  • Gemeinde Flums3
  • Gemeindeverwaltung Widnau2
  • Liebenau Helios2
  • Stadt Gossau2
  • Inclusy 4 All2

Skills

  • Case Management7
  • Early Childhood Education5
  • Social Pedagogy5
  • Interdisciplinary Collaboration4
  • Childcare3
  • Elderly Care3

Seniority and workload

  • Junior44%
  • Mid-level47%
  • Lead9%
  • 100% only14%
  • Range up to 100%23%
  • Part-time64%

New roles per week

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Questions

How many social care jobs are open in St. Gallen?

33 open roles, 3 of them posted in the last 7 days.

Who is hiring?

Kita Gossau, Gemeinde Flums, Gemeindeverwaltung Widnau, Liebenau Helios have the most open roles.

Which languages are required?

German is the most common requirement (91% of roles).

How we count

Open social care roles in the St. Gallen area, checked daily. Workload is taken from the posting text where stated. Recruitment agencies are excluded from the role sample.

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