Specialist Admission Department 80-100%

Start of position:

or by arrangement

Work location:

Gampelen

The Justizvollzugsanstalt Witzwil executes sentences and measures for 184 adult men in open prison sentences as well as in administrative detention under foreign law. The inmates are guided and promoted in various occupations in agriculture, trade, and supply according to work-agogic principles. In prison service, around 140 employees work consistently towards the goal of reintegration and reduction of recidivism of the admitted persons. Production goals and execution goals do not compete, but rather complement each other.
The admission department now accompanies newly admitted persons during their first execution phase until assignment to a regular workplace. Through structured potential assessment, the interdisciplinary team creates important foundations for the further stay.

Your tasks

As a specialist in the admission department, you accompany newly admitted persons during the admission phase. You conduct anamnesis interviews, analyze relevant files, and record resources, areas for development, support needs, and internal risks through structured observation and suitable assessment methods. Based on this, you prepare internal reports with initial goals and practice-oriented recommendations for further execution planning, care, promotion, and employment. Furthermore, you participate in internal workplace assignment as well as transfers to subsequent execution areas.
In the daily work of the admission department, you care for and promote the admitted persons and use the various work and learning fields specifically for your assessment work.
As a member of an interdisciplinary team, you actively contribute your own professional perspective to the joint assessment and evaluation and participate in the further development of the admission department. In addition, depending on need, you take on specialist and additional tasks and support further operational tasks within the framework of available resources.

Your profile

You have training in social pedagogy, social work, or work-agogics and ideally several years of professional experience in the penal system or in a comparable institutional environment.
You bring experience in working with people with complex psychosocial problems and psychological abnormalities as well as in professional conducting of interviews. You work convincingly according to the principles of work-agogics and encounter intercultural issues with openness and professional security.
As a resilient, stable, and capable of criticism personality, you keep a clear head even in demanding situations. You appreciate a versatile working environment and are open to using your resources flexibly depending on the workload.
You have very good German skills in speaking and writing as well as good oral French skills and good French reading comprehension. English skills and other language skills are an advantage. You are proficient in dealing with digital work and documentation systems and are open to new applications.

We offer you

A versatile and responsible task awaits you in one of the largest agricultural enterprises in Switzerland. In an interdisciplinary team, you actively help shape the admission phase and thus important foundations for the further course of execution. As a "bridge to freedom," you make an essential contribution to the reintegration of the admitted persons into society.
You work in a varied environment in which professional assessment, relationship work, work-agogics, and daily prison life come together directly. We support your professional development and enable you to acquire the necessary execution knowledge alongside your profession at the Schweizerischen Kompetenzzentrum für den Justizvollzug.
Your workplace is located on the extensive grounds of the JVA Witzwil in a unique natural landscape.

Contact

We look forward to your application. Send us your application documents online by
Further information will be gladly provided as follows due to holiday absences:

• until Melina Tresch, admission department, Tel. ;
• until Bernhard Gerber, Deputy Head of Execution Area, Tel. ;
• from Andrea Steinbeisser, Head of Execution Area, Tel. .

About the Amt für Justizvollzug

The Amt für Justizvollzug (AJV) is responsible for the open and closed execution of sentences and measures for adults and juveniles with around 1000 employees within the Sicherheitsdirektion of the Canton of Bern (SID). To fulfill this task, the office has four concordat correctional facilities, vie j4id10407261a j4it0939a j4iy26a