About the Role
As a pedagogical professional in our short-term and crisis group P4, you will accompany young people in important life phases, provide support, orientation, and foster their individual strengths. You will help shape a safe place for living, learning, and growing within our stationary group for children and adolescents aged 9 to 14.
Responsibilities
- Accompany and care for children and adolescents within the key worker system, considering their individual needs.
- Strengthen clients' emotional stability and promote their personal development.
- Create a protected pedagogical development environment.
- Ensure child protection and establish a safe, secure, and crisis-free environment.
- Maintain a systematic and resource-oriented perspective on the family of origin, their life world, and social environment.
- Collaboratively establish age-appropriate goals and perspectives.
- Organize, conduct, and accompany leisure and group activities.
- Engage in intensive work with parents and families.
- Cooperate and maintain transparency with all parties involved in the support process.
- Participate in and contribute to support conferences.
Requirements
- Completed training as a state-recognized educator or remedial educator.
- Willingness to work shifts (24-hour care), including in challenging crisis situations.
- Enjoy working with children and adolescents with behavioral issues and value collaborative work with their families.
- High level of empathy and understanding for individual, often difficult, life situations.
- Ability to apply pedagogical expertise reflectively, confidently, and solution-oriented in the daily operations of a crisis group.
- Reliability, teamwork skills, and flexibility, along with a readiness to take responsibility and work independently.
- Strong sense of responsibility and commitment to providing stability, safety, and orientation to children and adolescents in acute crises.
- An open, resilient, and positive personality to actively support our multidisciplinary team.
Skills
- Pedagogical expertise
- Empathy
- Reliability
- Teamwork
- Flexibility
- Responsibility
- Independent work
- Resilience
- Positive attitude
Location
- Berlin
Work Type
- Full-time
- Shift work
- 24-hour care
Experience Level
- Dependent on qualification and professional experience
Education Level
- State-recognized educator
- Remedial educator
Salary/Compensations
- €3,115.49 to €4,089.10 gross monthly (for full-time)
Benefits
- Warm, familial team environment
- Open communication with colleagues and superiors
- Company-funded supplementary health insurance
- Regular team events, company trips, and celebrations
- 30 days of vacation per year (based on a 5-day week)
- Supervisions, case teams, feedback, and personnel discussions
- Training and further education opportunities with input on topics
- Allowances and supplements (e.g., for night, weekend, or holiday shifts)
About the Company
- We are an independent provider of child and youth welfare services based in Berlin, dedicated to the protection, promotion, and participation of young people.
- We support approximately 270 children and adolescents in various life situations with a team of around 240 dedicated employees from diverse professional backgrounds.
- Our work is characterized by a appreciative, trauma-sensitive approach, a participatory attitude, and high professional standards.
- As an organization with a broad portfolio, we offer a dynamic, collegial environment and diverse development opportunities for our employees.
Equal Opportunity
- We value diversity and welcome all qualified applications.
- Severely disabled applicants will be given special consideration in case of equal suitability.
