Addiction Psychologist - 40%

Addiction Psychologist - 40%

• Part-time
• HUG contract type: Permanent
• Department: Department of Psychiatry

Company Description

With more than 13,000 employees representing 160 professions, the Geneva University Hospitals are a nationally and internationally recognized institution. To learn more about our institution, take a few minutes to consult our 2024 retrospective by clicking here.

With nearly 1,000 employees, the Department of Psychiatry fulfills a triple mission concerning the treatment of mental disorders, education, and research. The department's mission is to effectively detect and treat increasingly frequent and diverse pathologies while respecting patients and their relatives.

Quality teaching is also provided by the department to students as well as to doctors in training for specialist certification by raising awareness of psychological, biological, and social dimensions. The department also supports quality training in psychotherapy.

Organized into 6 services, the department offers a very broad and diversified range of care including hospital care, multidisciplinary outpatient care in various modalities and intensities, organized according to the principles of community psychiatry, as well as specialized programs and units. An integrated, clinical, and structured quality teaching is provided by the department for doctors in training by raising awareness of psychological, biological, and social dimensions. The department also provides structured theoretical training in the 3 main psychotherapy models as well as individual and group supervisions included in the training curriculum.

The department also actively supports research pathways linked to a translational and clinical research hub meeting a high level of quality.

Finally, the department seeks to understand the origins of mental disorders through cognitive and affective neurosciences, a true flagship of the Geneva site. To this end, it conducts patient-oriented academic and clinical research meeting a high level of quality.

The addiction service ensures the diagnosis and therapeutic management of patients suffering from addiction problems (with and/or without substances) in line with the Confederation and canton policy in the field of addictions, known as the "4 pillars" (prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and care of individuals).

Job Description

You will join the addiction service and, within a multidisciplinary team, ensure the evaluation, orientation, and psychological and psychotherapeutic follow-up of patients followed on an outpatient basis in the Reconnecte consultation (care for non-substance addictions).

Qualifications

You hold a Master’s degree in psychology and have the title of "psychotherapist recognized at the federal level." Additional training in the field of non-substance addictions and an interest in neuropsychological aspects would be an asset.

You are able to integrate easily into care teams and demonstrate autonomy and commitment in your work.

You have good skills to cope with stress effectively and proactively while knowing how to work in a multidisciplinary team.

Additional Information

• Start date: 01.02.2026 or to be agreed
• Number of positions: 1
• Activity rate: 40%
• Function class: 18 or 20
• Contract: Permanent
• Application deadline: 06.01.2026
• Contact for information: Ms. T. Aboulafia Brakha, Head of Psychologists, tatiana.aboulafia@hug.ch

Your application file must include a letter demonstrating your motivation, your curriculum vitae, copies of diplomas and certificates required for the position, recognition of your diploma by the Federal Office of Public Health (Mebeko) if you have training considered equivalent to the federal medical diploma, a practice license in the canton of Geneva, the last 2 work certificates, and a certificate of your French language level if you are of foreign nationality.

This announcement is addressed equally to women and men.

Wishing to engage in the fight against unemployment, the HUG encourages applications coming from the Cantonal Employment Office.

Only applications submitted via the recruitment platform will be considered. Paper and email applications will not be processed.