Part-time UAP social worker(70%) at the Office for Aid and Protection, Locarno Regional Office — Amministrazione Cantonale Ticino

Role overview

Tasks

• provide advice to families, third parties, entities, proposing direct intervention or directing towards external services, to ensure an answer to all requests
• examine the needs of minors and their families to define the project of intervention
• to provide social assistance, by activating, where appropriate, the resources necessary to ensure adequate support for minors and their families
• carry out the socio-family evaluations required by the protection and judicial authorities, to deepen situations of potential risk or danger for minors
• take protection warrants pursuant to Article 307 cpv.

3 of the CCS, to monitor uncomfortable situations, prevent the emergence of more important issues and provide support to families - to prepare, execute and verify the custody of minors with entrusting families and educational centers, to ensure their protection, examining the possibility of reconstructing the conditions of welcome of their families - to cooperate with the other sectors of the Office to offer coordinated and synergistic interventions

• Requirements
• bachelor SUP in social work or equivalent title, or, if combined with experience in individual social responsibility, university degree in related disciplines such as sociology, psychology, education science, pedagogy
• proven experience gained in the protection of minors
• availability, reliability, cooperative and welcoming attitude, communication and mediation skills
• knowledge of services and authorities in Ticino
• organizational capacity, work for objectives and networking
• proficiency of the Italian language and good knowledge of a second official language; knowledge of the third official language is preferential title
• practical knowledge of the main computer applications and preferably VIS
• licence to conduct and availability to work outside office hours Special remarks
• entry into service: 1 August 2026 Application conditions
• applications must be submitted online.

Other forms of application shall not be deemed valid - in addition to the documents to be submitted at the time of the online application (letter of presentation and motivation, curriculum vitae, diplomas, certificates and certificates of work), in a second moment may be required additional documentation (judicial casellario with relative self-certification and self-certification on the state of health) Conditions of use - appointment or assignment: these are those provided for by the Law on the order of employees of the State and of teachers of 15 March 1995 (LORD) and the relevant Regulation.

Any amendment of the law concerning salary and organization remains explicitly reserved - working hours: 42 hours per week (for a 100% employment ratio), flexible or according to service requirements Deadline 5 June 2026 Further information can be obtained from Mrs.

Sabina Beffa, Head of the Office for Aid and Protection, Tel.

091 814 54 32, e-mail sabina.beffa@hsn.ti.ch .