Pregassona9 days ago
Updated · 2026-10-19
12 open positions for Elderly Care in Ticino
Browse 12 elderly care jobs in Ticino, Switzerland — updated every day. Apply online for free as a cross-border worker.
Active jobs
12
Companies
7
Locations
5
Available listings
Role requirements and context
A dedicated hub for elderly care job opportunities in Ticino, Switzerland. Read full listings without signing in. Free sign-in is required to continue to the employer's official application page.
Sector overview in Ticino
The elderly care sector in Ticino offers stable job opportunities for Italian cross-border workers with G permits. Local employers regularly hire for operational, qualified and supervisory roles in both public and private sectors. Demand is driven by geographic proximity to the Lombardy labour pool, the quality of cantonal infrastructure, and Switzerland's stable economic environment.
Salary range
Salaries in the Ticino elderly care sector are typically 30-50% higher than equivalent roles in Italy, with ranges varying by experience, qualification and responsibility. Swiss employment terms include a 13th-month bonus, mandatory AVS/LPP contributions and a favourable withholding-tax regime for cross-border workers.
Typical requirements
Typical requirements in the elderly care sector include sector-relevant qualifications, prior experience (varying by role), and strong Italian fluency. Knowledge of German, French or English is often valued, especially for client-facing positions. Italian credentials are recognized by competent cantonal authorities through standard equivalence procedures.
Market trend
Hiring in the Ticino elderly care sector is growing moderately to strongly depending on market demand. The Canton supports cross-border-worker integration through orientation services and the Switzerland-EU bilateral agreements governing labour mobility. Italian cross-border workers with a G permit can take these jobs under the 2026 New Italy-Switzerland Tax Agreement: reduced withholding tax on Ticino-earned wages, with mandatory AVS/LPP social-security contributions paid by the Swiss employer. Ticino counts over 76,000 active G-permit cross-border workers, mostly from Como, Varese, Lecco and Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, and the recruiting catchment for this sector also includes nearby Italian towns such as Luino, Porto Ceresio, Stabio confine, Chiasso and Brogeda.
Top cities: Lugano, Bellinzona, Mendrisio, Locarno, Chiasso
FAQ
How many elderly care jobs are there in Ticino?
There are currently 12 active elderly care jobs in Ticino. The list refreshes multiple times per day.
Can I apply as a cross-border worker?
Yes. Most Ticino employers accept applications from EU cross-border workers with a G permit. Each listing specifies requirements.
How do I apply?
Read the full description without signing in. Free sign-in on Frontaliere Ticino is required to open the official application page; the employer may require a separate account.
Cross-border guide: salary, G permit, tax, weekly return
How we collect listings and what this page guarantees
Listings on this page come from a proprietary crawler that polls the main Swiss ATS (Smartrecruiters, Workday, proprietary trackers like Talentry and ServiceNow) every 6 hours, plus the cantonal Ticino Job Center, JobUp, JobScout24 and the career pages of long-standing Ticino employers. Every listing passes a deduplication check on normalised title + company + municipality before publication, so the same role does not appear twice even when the employer posts it on three portals. The displayed date is the original publication date — not the crawl timestamp — so you can judge the freshness. We keep listings online for 30 days or until the employer removes them from its ATS (we verify HTTP 404 and "position closed" redirects every 12 hours).
Living in Italy and working in Ticino: the cross-border geography
These listings concern Ticino. A G permit covers work in Switzerland while keeping a main residence abroad and returning at least weekly. The 20 km border zone is a treaty tax condition, not a general EU/EFTA G-permit requirement. In Ticino, issuance and renewal for adult EU/EFTA nationals cost CHF 75; other categories and procedures have different fees. Apply before starting work and check the expiry shown on the permit. Source for Ticino: SPOP Ticino.
CHF gross salary: how to land at real take-home
When a listing states pay, check the gross amount, pay period, workload and number of salary payments. Take-home pay depends on cantonal rates, pension contributions and personal circumstances. For new cross-border workers meeting the Italy–Switzerland agreement conditions, Switzerland applies 80% of ordinary withholding tax; this percentage is not a cap on the Italian tax credit. The hiring date alone does not determine the regime: residence, workplace and daily return in principle also matter. The transitional regime requires checking qualifying frontier work between 31 December 2018 and 17 July 2023. Outside the agreement conditions, the applicable treatment must be checked separately. Enter the offer details in the calculator for an estimate and assess actual commuting costs separately. Official source: ESTV / AFC
Example: a manager with a CHF 6'154 gross monthly offer in Ticino (CHF 80,000 gross/year over 13 months). Source tax ~13 % (~CHF 800), AVS-AI-IPG 5.3 % (~CHF 326), LPP ~7 % (~CHF 431). Swiss net ~CHF 4'597/month. EUR rate at 0.97 → ~EUR 4'459. The fiscal compensation between states is not a worker refund; any Italian tax depends on the applicable regime. The Frontaliere Ticino calculator handles both regimes (old + new agreement) and shows the effective net.
Frequent questions from cross-border readers
How many days a week can I work remotely while keeping cross-border status?
For Italy–Switzerland tax frontier workers, home working up to 25% of working time preserves the agreement’s tax treatment. Social insurance has separate rules: between 25% and 49.9%, Swiss coverage may continue under the multilateral exemption if its conditions are met and the employer requests an A1 certificate. Agree the share and formalities with HR. Tax rules; social insurance.
Does Ticino have a different border zone than the rest of Switzerland?
No: the "border zone" of the 2024 Italy-Switzerland agreement is the same across the Canton of Ticino — Italian municipalities within 20 km of the Swiss border. What changes between Lugano and Bellinzona is the commute time, not the tax regime. Your Italian residence stays in the same municipality even if you switch employers between Ticino cities.
Are Italian qualifications recognised for Elderly Care in Ticino?
For non-regulated professions, formal recognition is not a prerequisite for applying. For regulated professions, identify the competent body: SERI does not handle every application. Search for the occupation on recognition.swiss and follow the document and procedure requirements. Processing time depends on the complete application and responsible body; there is no guaranteed duration shared by every profession.
How much does the commute actually cost on a monthly basis?
Calculate the actual return distance and monthly days on site. For a car, include fuel consumption and price, parking, tolls, maintenance and a share of fixed costs. For rail, check the pass price for the route and any connecting journeys. Compare options using the same working days, including travel time and compatibility with shifts. Commuting costs reduce your available budget; a tax deduction is not automatic.
Related tools for cross-border workers
Three free tools to close the loop before applying: cross-border net salary calculator with both tax regimes (old + 2024 new agreement); CHF/EUR exchange comparator with rates from Italian banks, Swiss bureaus de change and Wise/Revolut; LAMal health-insurance comparator to pick the cheapest premium in your Ticino work municipality.