Social Worker / Social Worker Social Department

What you will do with us

Your versatile area of responsibility primarily includes the counseling and support of people with the aim of professional and/or social integration, as well as the alignment of social assistance benefits with the aim of securing financial existence.

• Do you enjoy conducting structured and solution-oriented counseling sessions with people in challenging life situations?
• Do you possess strong methodological competence to cooperatively initiate and accompany integration processes with people receiving social assistance?
• Do you enjoy working in a networked and active manner with external specialist agencies to achieve individual support offers?
• Are you accustomed to efficiently checking and utilizing financial resources in the sense of subsidiarity?
• Do you speak German and wish to apply or improve your French skills in an inspiring and bilingual environment?

Then you are exactly the right person for our team!

What you ideally bring with you

• Bachelor in Social Work or immediately before graduation
• Professional experience as a social worker in statutory social assistance
• Commitment, teamwork skills, flexibility and perseverance
• Professional network in the Biel area

It goes without saying that you are familiar with the dual mandate of statutory social assistance between counseling and control and that completing the resulting administrative tasks is easy for you.

Come join the Biel team et travaillez pour la plus grande ville bilingue de Suisse!

Quality of life

Our employees can combine meaningful work with leisure time and thereby gain quality of life. Whenever possible, we consider part-time positions and home office. Those who prefer to work 42 instead of 41 hours per week get one more week of vacation in return. We also offer additional days off.

Families - our future

We invest in families and support them, among other things, with extended maternity and paternity leave.
In addition, we grant 2 weeks of pre-birth leave. And besides the statutory child allowances, there is also a maintenance allowance with us.

Equal and greater opportunities

In the Biel city administration, there is equality of opportunity and wages.
The personal development of our employees is important to us so that they also have good opportunities in the labor market in the future. For this reason, we invest in internal and external training and further education.

We think ahead

Our pension fund benefits are excellent.
Many people do not necessarily think about this point during their working life. We do. We have a low entry threshold and the coordination deduction is already dependent on the degree of employment. The Swiss Parliament is still discussing it - we have already implemented it for a long time. We also cover 60 % of the contributions.

Support in difficult situations

We look closely and take responsibility.
Our external confidential advisory service is available anonymously for all concerns of our employees.
We cover 65 % of the daily allowance insurance contributions and our Case Management advises and accompanies people from the beginning to the end of a challenging situation.

À la Biennoise

We naturally live bilingualism in everyday life. Our employees speak either German or French and improve their respective language skills in the other language quite incidentally.
The City of Biel lives from its diversity. All people are welcome with us.
We use our diversity and complement each other.

We have a lot to offer

Here you will find our attractive employment conditions with numerous advantages and benefits.
Perhaps you or you (Du) will soon belong to the team of the City of Biel!

Your place of work

Alexander-Schöni-Strasse 14
2501 Biel

Your contact

Questions about the position?
David Gilbert
Head of Social Services
032 326 25 41

David Gilbert
Head of Social Services

032 326 25 41