Kanton Graubünden
Landquart
Social Worker
- 29 September 2026
- 100%
- Permanent position
- Landquart
Job summary
Join the diverse trilingual region of Grisons, Switzerland! Enjoy a supportive work environment with great quality of life.
Tasks
- Provide social counseling to individuals and families in need.
- Assist refugees with integration in language, profession, and society.
- Ensure access to social insurance and economic support services.
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in social work or equivalent training required.
- Strong counseling abilities and knowledge of social law.
- Excellent communication, organizational, and teamwork skills.
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About the job
The only trilingual canton in Switzerland is diverse in its economic, cultural and political profile. With an area of 7106 km², Graubünden is the largest canton in Switzerland and with 150 valleys, 615 lakes, 140 tourist resorts and countless days of sunshine per year, it offers a high quality of life. The cantonal administration of Graubünden is as diverse as our landscape.
Social Worker
Cantonal Social Services Office | 60–80 % | Landquart
On behalf of the municipalities, the Cantonal Social Services Office fulfils the task of providing social and addiction assistance to people and supports them in accessing financial social assistance. To this end, it manages eight regional social services in the canton. The Prettigovia/Herrschaft/Fünf Dörfer Social Service is responsible for 18 municipalities, with a catchment area of 43,000 people.
Social counselling, addiction assistance and financial support (gr.ch)
For the Landquart office, we are looking for a social worker as a substitute during maternity leave, immediately or from an agreed date. The position is fixed-term until 30 June 2027.
- Solution- and resource-oriented social counselling for individuals and families facing difficult life situations related to various issues
- Advice on linguistic, professional and social integration for recognised refugees and provisionally admitted foreigners
- Ensuring access to social insurance benefits as well as financial social assistance
- Collaboration with social authorities and specialised services
- Other varied, interesting and responsible activities
- Completed training as a social worker BSc/SUP or equivalent qualification
- Aptitude for working with people from different social backgrounds and/or cultural origins
- Strong counselling skills as well as solid specialised knowledge of social assistance law in the field of social insurance
- Friendliness, ability to cope with intense work rhythms, team spirit, good communication, organisational and administrative skills
- Ideally good knowledge of foreign languages
- Independent and solution-oriented working method
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Gion Andri Bundi, head of the Prettigovia/Herrschaft/Fünf Dörfer regional social service, at telephone number 081 257 66 28 or Laura Steinbacher, social worker, at telephone number 081 257 66 32.
Application deadline: 23 October 2026
