Pre-study or training interns (80%)

Are you motivated to pedagogically accompany young women* on a piece of their life path? Are you interested in developing yourself personally? Do you feel like dealing with the issues of young women*? Do you keep a cool head in situations that are demanding for you? Do you bring a good dose of humor? Then you are in the right place!

We are looking for the period from 1 August 2027 to 31 July 2028 for all three residential groups

Pre-study or training interns (80%) ##

Die Sonnegg is a non-profit institution with service contracts from the Confederation and the Canton of Bern. Our offer supports normally talented young women* between the ages of 14 and 18 who show a high need for support as well as school absenteeism due to various behavioral abnormalities and personality development disorders. To accompany them, Die Sonnegg has developed a specialized, well-coordinated interdisciplinary setting (living-school-therapy) as a unique selling point. The aim is to prepare the young women* in the best possible way for their personal and professional independence. Die Sonnegg works according to the "KOSS"/ Kitty Cassée methodology as well as on the basis of "Nonviolent Communication"/ M. Rosenberg and represents a trauma-sensitive attitude.

What are your tasks?

• Accompanying 6 young women* in everyday life in the residential groups
• Co-designing leisure activities for the young women*
• daily household tasks (shopping, cooking, chores etc.)
• joint assumption of various services (day, evening, weekend, holiday and possibly night on-call services)
• participation and co-design of group meetings, group days, Sonnegg events, group excursions, cross-group excursions etc.
• administrative work (keeping journals, writing protocols)

What do you bring with you?

• You like to organize and undertake leisure activities for and with the young women*.
• You have basic administrative skills and IT knowledge.
• You like to take on responsibility.
• You are at least 25 years old.
• You appreciate irregular working hours and days off during the week.
• You are interested in getting to know the "KOSS" methodology.
• You want to deal with the diverse topics in adolescence.
• You are flexible and resilient.
• You are interested in gender-specific topics.
• You are interested in the good reason behind every behavior of the young women*.

What do we offer?

• careful induction and professional support
• extraordinary socio-pedagogical task, in which your relational offering represents one of the supporting pillars for the personal development of the young women*
• possibility to bring in your own interests and design opportunities
• interdisciplinary work at eye level (living, school, therapy)
• regular PA conversations as well as exchange formats among the students
• various internal formats (socio-pedagogical forum, KOSS introduction, general forum, interdisciplinary case discussion, psychiatric case discussions, supervision as well as internal training),
• employment conditions according to the Cantonal guidelines of the Canton of Bern
• overtime necessary during school weeks is compensated during the school holidays, i.e. usually 8 non-working weeks / year
• weekend services are rotated between the three residential groups
• meals in the residential group during service (without deductions)
• coffee/ tea, fruit and snacks are freely available
• good public transport connection and less than 30min from Bern station
• free parking facilities, break room and rest room for employees

Your application
We look forward to receiving your complete application documents, which you please send to Frau Carmen Aebersold/ Teamleitung Wohnen (Terra) by e-mail: carmen.aebersold@sonnegg-belp.ch . Should you have any questions, Frau Aebersold can be reached by telephone at the number 031 818 83 86.