Kanton Thurgau
Weinfelden
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Lawyer, Social Worker or Social Pedagogue
- Publication date:17 October 2025
- Workload:100%
- Place of work:Weinfelden
Job summary
The Kanton Thurgau seeks a legal support professional. Join a supportive team environment with various opportunities.
Tasks
- Provide legal support to authority members in the district.
- Prepare decisions and edit legal documents for hearings.
- Conduct hearings and manage specific legal inquiries independently.
Skills
- Completed law degree or equivalent social work qualification required.
- Strong knowledge of family law and legal procedures essential.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills needed.
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About the job
For the residents of the canton of Thurgau, a child and adult protection authority operates per district. To support the specialist secretariat of the KESB in the Weinfelden district, we are looking for you immediately or by agreement, limited to one year, as
What you do:
- legal support for the authority members
- decision preparation and drafting of decisions
- taking minutes at hearings
- independent conduct of delegated hearings
- independent case processing and advisory voice in the authority's decision-making meeting
- clarification of specific legal questions
What you bring:
- completed legal university degree (Licentiate, MLaw) or degree in social work (FH/HFS) or equivalent training
- ideally professional experience in the judiciary, law firm and/or administration or in child and adult protection or practical professional experience, preferably in statutory social work
- good knowledge of personal and family law as well as procedural law, preferably also in inheritance or social insurance law
- confident written and oral expression
- independent, precise, solution-oriented and efficient way of working
- resilience and reliability
- affinity for collaboration in an interdisciplinary team
- empathy and skill in dealing with people in special life situations
- interesting, independent and responsible activity
- versatile and varied assignments in different areas of law
- subject-specific training opportunities
- modern employment conditions
- modern workplace in a central location with excellent transport connections
Interested?
For questions, Christoph Buner, President of the KESB Weinfelden, T 058 345 73 40, is happy to assist you.
Have we aroused your interest? Then we look forward to receiving your complete online application.
About the company
Kanton Thurgau
Weinfelden
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