Pedagogical Team Leader – Intensive Pedagogical Residential Group
Diakonie München und Oberbayern
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Wolfratshausen • 🇩🇪 Germany
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Senior
About the role
- Management of a residential group with professional and operational oversight
- Personnel responsibility for 6–8 staff members (recruitment, hiring, staff support and personnel development)
- Creating duty rosters and managing vacation planning
- Facilitating and organizing weekly team meetings and planning workshops
- Responsibility for the pedagogical placement, design and structuring of the facility and for steering the organizational development process in coordination with the department management
- Implementing care plans, service agreements and action catalogues in cooperation with funding agencies (cost bearers)
- Providing pedagogical counseling and care services within the facility
- Enjoys and is comfortable working day and night shifts within the group
Requirements
- You actively contribute and want to make a difference with your ideas
- A completed, state-recognized qualification as an educator (Erzieher/in) or curative education nurse/special-needs care worker (Heilerziehungspfleger/in), or a completed degree in Social Work / Social Pedagogy / Special Needs Education / Early Childhood Education with state recognition, or an equivalent qualification
- Enthusiasm for leading and further developing the facility and the staff
- Team-building and team leadership skills
- Confident demeanor and negotiation skills
- Empathy, motivation, resilience in crisis situations and a sense of humor
- You appreciate the freedoms and advantages of shift work (flexible duty-scheduling)
- You hold a Class B driving licence (for use of the company vehicle during working hours)
- Good knowledge of common Office programs
- You share the Christian values of our diaconal (church-affiliated) organization
Benefits
- A responsible and varied position with many opportunities to shape and influence
- Excursions, sports, handicrafts & more — bring your hobbies and talents to our team
- Work in an innovative, non-profit social enterprise with a strong culture of participation and involvement
- Attractive collective pay according to AVR Bavaria with many special payments (annual bonus, family budget, capital-forming benefits, child allowance)
- A permanent employment contract with 30 vacation days plus 3 additional days off (for Buß‑und‑Bettag [Day of Repentance and Prayer], December 24 and December 31)
- A 100% employer-funded company pension plan (Evangelische Zusatzversorgungskasse) and an additional supplementary insurance
- Diverse pedagogical training and continuing-education opportunities, supervision and much more
- A generous subsidy for the Deutschland-Ticket as a job-ticket
- Employee discounts at body + soul fitness studios and numerous other partners (fashion, tickets, mobile, travel, etc.), as well as additional corporate benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
pedagogical counselingcare servicesservice agreementsaction cataloguesstaff supportpersonnel developmentduty roster managementvacation planningcrisis managementshift work
Soft skills
team leadershipteam buildingnegotiation skillsempathymotivationresiliencesense of humorconfident demeanororganizational developmentcommunication
Certifications
state-recognized qualification as an educatorcurative education nursespecial-needs care workerdegree in Social Workdegree in Social Pedagogydegree in Special Needs Educationdegree in Early Childhood EducationClass B driving licence