Nurse - 90%

About the job

Nurse - 90%

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

Company description

With more than 13,000 employees representing 160 professions, the Geneva University Hospitals are a nationally and internationally recognised institution. To learn more about our institution, take a few minutes to consult our 2025 retrospective by clicking here.

With nearly 1,000 employees, the Department of Psychiatry fulfils a triple mission concerning the treatment of mental disorders, education, and research. The department’s mission is to detect and effectively 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, raising awareness of psychological, biological, and social dimensions. The department also supports quality training in psychotherapy.

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 of a high standard.

The psychiatric specialties service provides diagnosis and care for adult patients with the following issues: difficulties within couples and families, autism spectrum and intellectual development disorders, sexology, mood disorders, and emotional regulation disorders.

Job description

You autonomously and under medical delegation provide personalised and comprehensive nursing care in a preventive, curative, and palliative manner to patients of all ages and in situations presenting various levels of complexity. You are a responsive person, with good stress and priority management, able to analyse clinical situations and adapt to the context and unforeseen events. You thus develop the quality of care.

Your ability to work collaboratively allows you to work hand in hand with a care team composed of ASA and ASSC staff. You ensure precise and rigorous transmission of information within multidisciplinary teams.

You participate in the supervision and clinical teaching of new nursing staff and other health professionals.

Your learning abilities allow you to continuously improve your practice.

Qualifications

You hold a Bachelor of Science in Nursing or an equivalent recognised qualification by the Swiss Red Cross.

You have postgraduate training related to the targeted population or are ready to engage in it.

You possess the required practice licence in the canton of Geneva. For more information, please consult the State of Geneva website.

You have 3 to 5 years of experience in psychiatric nursing. Experience with people with intellectual disabilities or training or experience in behavioural approaches (e.g. ABA, behaviour-based interventions) is a significant asset.

You demonstrate good analytical and synthesis skills and are comfortable in interdisciplinary relationships. You are also capable of ensuring effective coordination with other mental health professionals and the canton’s disability network.

Knowledge of the canton’s mental disability care network is highly appreciated.

Additional information

You work day, night, and weekend shifts according to service needs.

• Start date: to be confirmed
• Number of positions: 1
• Activity rate: 90%
• Job grade: 15
• Contract: Permanent contract
• Application deadline: 29.05.2026
• Contact for information: Ms V. Marini, Deputy Head of Nursing, tel 079 553 29 70

Your application file must include a letter demonstrating your motivation, your curriculum vitae, copies of diplomas and certificates required for the position, and the last 2 work certificates.

This announcement is addressed equally to women and men.

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

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