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 WilGermanLead70%Hybrid14 days ago
Team Lead Intake/Administration
Soziale Dienste Stadt Wil
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 WidnauGermanMid-level100%
Childcare Specialist
Gemeindeverwaltung Widnau
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 DorfplatzGerman
Volunteer
Liebenau Dorfplatz
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 LebensartGermanJunior80%
Care Assistant SRK / AGS EBA Night Shift Residential IV
Stiftung Lebensart
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 famiZGermanMid-level10–30%Hybrid
Child, Youth and Family Support
Fachstelle famiZ
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-JonaGermanMid-level45%7 days ago
School Social Worker
Regionale Beratungszentrum Rapperswil-Jona
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
DreischiibeGermanLead80–100%3 days ago
Team Leader Office Point
Dreischiibe
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 HeliosGermanJunior
Healthcare Assistant EFZ
Liebenau Helios
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 DepartmentGermanMid-level80–100%14 days ago
Social Therapist or Nursing Professional
Security and Justice Department
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 SDMGermanMid-level50%3 days ago
Specialist Open Child and Youth Work
Jugendnetzwerk SDM
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
Kindergarten Intern
Kita GossauGermanJunior80–100%
Kindergarten Intern
Kita Gossau
What you would do
- Assist with individual care, support, and promotion of children.
- Participate in a children's group and help shape a varied, pedagogically valuable kindergarten daily routine.
- Support the implementation of rituals and everyday activities.
- Take responsibility for tasks conscientiously.
Skills
ChildcareEarly Childhood EducationPedagogical SupportGroup Activity FacilitationRitual & Routine Support
Social Worker
Zweckverband Soziale Dienste WerdenbergGermanMid-level14 days ago
Social Worker
Zweckverband Soziale Dienste Werdenberg
What you would do
- Conduct independent factual and needs assessments in endangerment reports.
- Interview children and adolescents to gather information.
- Write assessment reports to support authority decision-making.
- Perform risk and protection assessments.
- Participate in interdisciplinary case discussions.
- Obtain necessary reports and prepare information.
Skills
Needs AssessmentRisk AssessmentChild ProtectionReport WritingMethodical Interviewing
Youth Worker
Stadt GossauGermanMid-level70%
Youth Worker
Stadt Gossau
What you would do
- Building and maintaining relationships with and advising young people.
- Managing the youth center and the Kubus youth club.
- Planning and designing mobile youth work.
- Planning, organizing and implementing events and projects in information, leisure, prevention and public relations.
- Networking and cooperating with specialist agencies.
- Deputizing for the manager.
Skills
Social Work Degree (FH/HF)Open Youth WorkYouth Center ManagementEvent PlanningPrevention Programs
Case Manager WSH & KES
WSH-SupportGermanMid-level3 days ago
Case Manager WSH & KES
WSH-Support
What you would do
- Independently manage cases in economic social assistance (WSH) and/or mandate management in child and adult protection (KES).
- Advise and support people in various life situations in a professional, solution-oriented manner.
- Work across various social services and authorities in German-speaking Switzerland, with deployment planning based on residence and personal situation.
- Quickly familiarize with existing dossiers and structures and ensure professional, reliable case management.
- Support the further development of processes and workflows for clients as needed.
Skills
Case ManagementEconomic Social Assistance (WSH)Child and Adult Protection (KES)Social Work (FH/HF)KLIBnet
Head of Social Services
Gemeindeverwaltung WatttwilGermanLead80–100%10 days ago
Head of Social Services
Gemeindeverwaltung Watttwil
What you would do
- Overall management of the Social Services department including professional, organizational and personnel leadership.
- Responsibility for social assistance, asylum affairs, alimony, guardianship, open youth work, voluntary social counseling and elderly issues.
- Leading and coordinating subordinate department heads.
- Acting as interface between political and administrative levels on social issues.
- Cooperating with internal and external bodies.
Skills
Social Assistance ManagementAsylum AffairsAlimony LawGuardianshipOpen Youth Work
Specialist Social Services Office Oberuzwil-Jonschwil 80-100%
Gemeinde OberuzwilGermanMid-level80–100%
Specialist Social Services Office Oberuzwil-Jonschwil 80-100%
Gemeinde Oberuzwil
What you would do
- Independent case management in child support and asylum matters.
- Advance payment of child support and debt collection processing.
- Processing of parental contributions.
- Involvement in financial social assistance.
- Management and documentation of case files and expert assessments.
- Counseling in personal, financial, and legal matters.
Skills
Social Assistance CaseworkChild Support LawAsylum LawSocial Security LawCase Management
Consultant
Stiftung Landwirtschaft und Menschen mit BeeinträchtigungGermanMid-level60%Hybrid
Consultant
Stiftung Landwirtschaft und Menschen mit Beeinträchtigung
What you would do
- Advise employees with disabilities and caregiver families on the pedagogical design of care and work relationships or training relationships.
- Maintain contact with relatives, legal representatives, and integration specialists.
- Conduct new admissions and assessments.
- Work in other business areas of the foundation.
Skills
Social Work DegreeSocial PedagogyDisability CounselingIV Vocational MeasuresSocial Insurance Law
Registered Nurse HF - Psychiatry
Spitex St. GallenGermanMid-level100%
Registered Nurse HF - Psychiatry
Spitex St. Gallen
What you would do
- Independently provide psychiatric nursing and care to clients in their home environment.
- Advise and accompany clients and their relatives in basic and treatment psychiatric care.
- Work interdisciplinarily with doctors, social workers, and other specialists and institutions.
- Maintain close cooperation with the internal office team.
Skills
Psychiatric NursingHome CareAddiction Disorders CarePsychiatric AssessmentInterdisciplinary Collaboration
Social Sector Professional
Inclusy 4 AllGermanJunior7 days ago
Social Sector Professional
Inclusy 4 All
What you would do
- Support teams in various organizations and situations.
- Take on assignments in communities, schools, foundations, and institutions.
- Decide flexibly when, where, and to what extent to take on assignments.
- Contribute to meaningful, impactful placements.
Skills
Social Work (EFZ/HF/FH)Team SupportCase SupportCommunity EngagementSchool Support
Healthcare Assistant
Zentrum RheinauenGermanJunior
Healthcare Assistant
Zentrum Rheinauen
What you would do
- Accompany, care for, and support residents in daily activities such as personal hygiene, getting up, dressing and undressing, and eating and drinking.
- Perform wound care and administer medications.
- Observe and monitor residents' well-being.
- Work weekend shifts and irregular hours.
Skills
Personal Care AssistanceWound CareMedication AdministrationDementia CareElderly Care
Languages required
All roles
91%
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
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.