Kanton Graubünden
Landquart
Social Worker
- 29 September 2026
- 100%
- Permanent position
- Landquart
Job summary
Join the Grisons region as a social assistant in a diverse environment. This role offers the chance to make a real impact while enjoying a supportive workplace.
Tasks
- Provide solution-oriented social advice to individuals and families.
- Support individuals facing addiction and their families with guidance.
- Ensure access to social insurance and economic assistance services.
Skills
- Completed social assistant training or equivalent experience required.
- Strong counseling skills with knowledge of social and addiction support.
- Effective communication, organizational, and administrative abilities.
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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
Social Services Office | 80–100 % | Landquart
On behalf of the municipalities, the Cantonal Social Services Office fulfils the task of providing social and addiction support to individuals and assists them in accessing financial social assistance. To this end, it manages eight regional social services across the canton. The Prettigovia/Herrschaft/Fünf Dörfer Social Service is responsible for 18 municipalities, serving a population of 43,000 people.
Social counselling, addiction support and financial assistance (gr.ch)
For the Landquart office, we are seeking a social worker for 1 January 2027 or a date to be agreed.
- Solution- and resource-oriented social counselling for individuals and families facing difficult life situations related to various issues
- Counselling for people affected by addiction and their families
- Counselling and financial support for persons with S protection status from Ukraine accommodated in individual housing
- Ensuring access to social insurance benefits as well as financial social assistance
- Collaboration with social authorities and specialised services
- Other varied, interesting and responsible tasks
- 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 in addiction counselling, social assistance law and social insurance
- Affability, 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
