Lawyer
Kanton Graubünden
Chur
Key information
- Publication date:18 September 2025
- Workload:100%
- Contract type:Unlimited employment
- Place of work:Chur
Job summary
Join the diverse team in Graubünden, the largest Swiss canton.
Tasks
- Conduct administrative and disciplinary procedures in health law.
- Provide legal advice and support to public health departments.
- Collaborate with health professionals on legal matters.
Skills
- Law degree with preferred attorney license; some public sector experience.
- Strong analytical and structured thinking skills required.
- Good IT skills and proficiency in Italian is a plus.
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Together for Graubünden
The only trilingual canton in Switzerland is economically, culturally, and politically diverse. Graubünden, with 7106 km², is the largest canton in Switzerland and offers a high quality of life with 150 valleys, 615 lakes, 140 holiday resorts, and countless sunny days per year. The Cantonal Administration of Graubünden is as versatile as our landscape. Bring your unique skills and help shape the future of the Cantonal Administration of Graubünden together with us.
The only trilingual canton in Switzerland is economically, culturally, and politically diverse. Graubünden, with 7106 km², is the largest canton in Switzerland and offers a high quality of life with 150 valleys, 615 lakes, 140 holiday resorts, and countless sunny days per year. The Cantonal Administration of Graubünden is as versatile as our landscape. Bring your unique skills and help shape the future of the Cantonal Administration of Graubünden together with us.
Lawyer
Health Office Graubünden | 80% | Chur
As a department directly subordinated to the Department of Justice, Security and Health, the Health Office is responsible for the tasks assigned to it by law and regulations in the field of healthcare. In particular, it is responsible for healthcare and health prevention, as far as these are cantonal tasks. Essentially, the activities of the Health Office can be divided into the following areas: approvals and supervision of professions and institutions in the healthcare sector, cantonal medical service, control of medicinal and narcotic substances, health promotion and prevention, as well as controlling the granting of cantonal contributions to eligible healthcare institutions.
The legal service is responsible for supervising persons and businesses in the health sector in the legal areas assigned to the Health Office according to federal and cantonal law (health, medicinal products, medical and health professions, epidemics, health insurance law). It advises and supports the office and specialist departments on legal issues, provides legal information in the healthcare sector, and coordinates the enforcement of the health insurance obligation with the federal government and canton.
We are looking for a legal staff member in the legal service for the Health Office by arrangement.
Your area of responsibility
- Conducting supervisory administrative and disciplinary proceedings as well as misdemeanor proceedings, in particular leading proceedings and drafting health police orders
- Conducting procedures concerning exemption from professional secrecy
- Drafting statements in supervisory complaint procedures
- Processing requests under the Public Information Act
- Supporting municipalities in implementing the mandatory health insurance
- Legal clarifications in the health sector
- Legal advice to specialist departments
- Collaboration with the office's specialists in medicine, dentistry, and medicinal products
- Preparing statements for the department or the federal government
What we expect from you
- Completed law degree, preferably with a lawyer's license
- Several years of professional experience in public administration, justice, or legal practice
- Independent and precise work
- Willingness to take on responsibility
- Teamwork skills, high social competence
- Analytical, structured, and conceptual thinking ability
- Quick comprehension
- Ability for interdisciplinary exchange
- Linguistic fluency and stylistic confidence in oral and written expression
- Good IT skills
- Basic knowledge of Italian is an advantage
We look forward to receiving your online application and to getting to know you.
For questions, Gabriela Huber, Head of Legal Service, is happy to assist you at phone number 081 257 25 02, gabriela.huber@san.gr.ch.
Application deadline: October 24, 2025
