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The career program is intended for nursing professionals, care specialists, social pedagogues and all other people who would like to take on a leadership role in a social, socio-educational or socio-medical institution. In the Social Team Leader training course, you will examine your role, your understanding of leadership and your leadership behavior. This will enable you to lead your team in a goal-oriented manner. This includes planning and organizing the work of your team. You will also develop the team further and ensure the quality of the team and work by training as a social team leader.

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Team leader in social and socio-medical organizations: first management function in the social sector

Team leaders in social and socio-medical organizations (formerly team leaders in social and socio-medical institutions) take on initial management tasks. They take on the personal and professional management of a team, ensure optimal cooperation within the team and good communication with other teams and departments. The necessary know-how for this is imparted by training as a social team leader.

Possible places of work for social team leaders include retirement homes, care centers, day care centres, Spitex organizations or sheltered workshops. They lead their team, i.e. they chair regular team meetings, draw up work and deployment plans and assign tasks. Once you have completed your training as a social team leader, you will also be able to plan processes skillfully.

As a line manager, you are involved in the selection of personnel, draw up target agreements and assess performance. Thanks to the Social Team Leader training, you take care of the professional development of your employees.

The preparatory courses for the federal professional examination "Team Leader in Social and Sociomedical Organizations (BP)" (formerly Team Leader in Social and Sociomedical Institutions) can be completed on a part-time basis and last approx. 1 year.

Topics covered by the social team leader training include

  • Leading in a team, understanding leadership and leadership behavior
  • Organization of teamwork
  • Team development and cooperation

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The requirements for team leaders in social and socio-medical institutions with a Federal Diploma of Higher Education are as follows:

  • Federal Diploma of Vocational Education and Training (AFPE) or Advanced Federal Professional Examination (AFPE) or College of Higher Education in the health and social sector
  • and at least 2 years of professional experience (at least 60%) in the health or social sector after completing the training

or

  • Federal Diploma of Vocational Education and Training (AFPE) or higher vocational education qualification (Federal Professional Examination, Advanced Professional Examination or College of Higher Education) or university degree outside the social and healthcare sector
  • and at least 4 years of professional experience (at least 60%) in the health or social sector as well as proof of the required industry knowledge

In addition to the above conditions:

  • At least 1 year of management experience in the health or social sector
  • Required module qualifications (1, 2, 3 and double module 4/5) or certificates of equivalence

As a social team leader, you have to learn the following:

  • Own role and understanding of leadership
  • Leadership behavior
  • Plan and organize teamwork in a goal-oriented manner
  • Team development and quality improvement
  • develop further in strategic, structural and cultural terms
  • Interface design
  • Bearing budget responsibility
  • Managing an organization according to ethical, entrepreneurial, business and professional principles in a complex environment

As a team leader in the social sector, you should have the following personal qualities:

  • Leadership skills
  • Social skills
  • Interest in social services or healthcare
  • Strong sociability and communication skills
  • networked thinking and acting
  • Sense of responsibility
  • Ability to lead employees and work in a team
  • Flexibility and willingness to work irregular hours

The main tasks of team leaders in the social sector are

  • Lead yourself
  • Others lead
  • Plan and ensure the team organization
  • Setting goals and ensuring quality

This means that team leaders in the social sector are not too different from other team leader functions. However, specific training takes account of industry-specific circumstances.

Good social work team leadership requires:

  • Understanding of leadership and correct leadership behavior on the part of the team leader
  • Goal-oriented leadership in a team
  • Organization of teamwork to ensure good quality
  • Defining the foundations for team development and collaboration
  • Planning, implementation and evaluation of management tasks

There are the following options for training as a Social Team Leader:

  • Leadership seminar
  • Certificate course as a team leader for all sectors with a school-leaving certificate or association qualification
  • Professional examination for team leader in social and socio-medical organizations

The activities of a team leader of social institutions are:

  • Managing employees (work allocation, employee induction, job supervision, motivation, target agreements, performance appraisal, supporting employee recruitment, development and training measures, conflict management, health promotion)
  • Organizing and improving processes (coordinating collaboration, ensuring team communication, team meetings, analyzing and optimizing processes, ensuring service quality)
  • Perform coordination tasks (ensure information flow between organizational management and employees, ensure needs are taken into account, implement own tasks, plan, implement and evaluate team work)

The following advanced courses are useful after completing the federal professional examination for team leaders in social and socio-medical institutions:

  • Courses offered by technical colleges, professional associations, higher technical colleges and universities of applied sciences
  • Specialization through certificates or management courses (depending on the industry) for department and division heads
  • Specialization through the diploma as a daycare center manager
  • Higher professional examination (HFP) to become a certified manager of social and socio-medical organizations
  • Higher technical college leading to a diploma in social pedagogy HF, diploma in childhood pedagogy HF or diploma in business administration HF
  • University of Applied Sciences for degree programs in related fields, for example Bachelor of Science in Business Administration or Bachelor of Arts / Science in Social Work

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bke education center childcare
(5.3) Very good 45 45 Ratings (95% )
bke Bildungszentrum Kinderbetreuung has been training specialists in childcare and education for over 40 years and offers further training for specialists and managers in family and school childcare.

The bke team and the lecturers work together on this task. They make every effort to provide students and participants with a broad range of specialist knowledge that is consistently geared towards practical needs and leads to recognized qualifications and certificates of competence.
Strengths: Many years of experience/high practical relevance & success rate/orientation towards the latest knowledge & developments/very satisfied course participants/broad range of courses/fair prices/good public transport connections
Region: Zürich
Sites: Zürich-Altstetten
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ARTISET Education - Continuing education
ARTISET Education is your competence center for practical, innovative continuing education for professionals in social institutions for people with support needs. Practical and competence-oriented. To promote your professional and personal development.

We divide our courses into five specialist areas:
- Personal and social skills
- Leadership/management/counseling
- Social pedagogy/child education
- Care and support
- Gastronomy/housekeeping

Our specialist courses provide employees with targeted external training on a specific topic. In training courses, postgraduate courses and postgraduate studies, professionals acquire in-depth knowledge and skills. In-house training courses support the common attitude and actions of an institution.
Strengths: As a leading training organization, we successfully offer professional training for specialists and managers in the social and healthcare sector: competent, practical and personal.
Region: Bern, Zentralschweiz, Zürich
Sites: Luzern, Bern
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Mühlemattstrasse 42
5000 Aarau
Careum continuing education
Careum Continuing Education is the pioneering institution for continuing education in the health and social care sector in German-speaking Switzerland. We offer a comprehensive range of courses for specialists and managers. With our courses, you can further your education in every area of a healthcare organization. Be it in nursing and care, leadership and management, consulting and communication, teaching and learning, ageing and society, care gastronomy and housekeeping or medicine and pharmacy.

In our courses, you will acquire sound concepts and up-to-date specialist knowledge. You can put what you have learned into practice in your day-to-day work. In our further training courses, you will train your decision-making skills and expand your understanding of the needs of clients, residents, patients and employees.
Strengths: Flexible and modular - we offer you advice, orientation and individual solutions that match your educational biography, your life situation and your professional goals.
Region: Aargau
Sites: Aarau
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HFHS College for Anthroposophic Curative Education, Social Pedagogy and Social Therapy
The College of Higher Education for Anthroposophic Curative Education, Social Pedagogy and Social Therapy (HFHS) in Dornach is recognized by the Canton of Solothurn.

Its program includes:
A three-year, practice-integrated full-time course in social pedagogy CHE (federally recognized)
The shortened course in Social Pedagogy CHE for people with a relevant Federal Diploma of Vocational Education and Training lasts 2 years.
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The HFHS bases its work on anthroposophy's understanding of the human being and the world. It maintains a dialog with the specialist sciences and incorporates their findings into its school curriculum.
In addition to conducting training courses and offering continuing education, further training and continuing education, the HFHS attaches great importance to networking with other training providers and practical institutions.

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Region: Aargau, Basel, Bern
Sites: Dornach
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Agogis
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As a leading provider of education and training, Agogis has been qualifying and strengthening specialists and managers in the social sector for 50 years. It offers a wide range of practice-oriented courses and sets standards in higher vocational education and training. Agogis supports professionals throughout their entire professional career with training and further education courses for their daily work.

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Region: Zürich
Sites: Basel, Olten, St. Gallen, Zürich
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