Social Worker

Do you want to support people with mental illnesses holistically, including social, professional and personal areas of life? At the Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic in Biel, you will find a varied and bilingual working environment where you can specifically apply your social work expertise. Our interprofessional team offers competent, timely and individual psychiatric treatment and supports people with a wide range of mental illnesses.
As part of the UPZ's outpatient services, you will work closely with professionals from medicine, psychology and nursing as well as with private practitioners and external partner organisations. You support our patients with social, financial, legal and professional issues and develop concrete perspectives for their everyday lives together with them. You can expect varied tasks, a lot of personal responsibility and the opportunity to sustainably empower people even in challenging life situations.

Your tasks

• You plan and coordinate support measures in the core areas of work, housing, budget, law and migration and implement them
• You provide psychosocial counselling in acute crises, in collaboration with the outpatient treatment team
• You support our patients especially in social insurance law matters
• In your daily work you cooperate closely with authorities (e.g. adult and child protection authorities and social welfare offices) as well as legal and specialist services (e.g. counselling centres, outpatient services)
• You contribute your valuable experience in psychosocial counselling and actively participate in maintaining and optimising our high quality standards
• You accompany our patients individually and process-oriented
• You have the opportunity to network with social institutions, organisations and facilities (e.g. in sheltered housing and work areas)
• You work in an interprofessional team consisting of doctors, psychologists, nursing professionals and secretariat

• You have a university of applied sciences degree / bachelor’s degree in social work
• You have extensive knowledge of social law as well as medical-psychiatric orientation
• You are characterised by counselling skills and experience
• Additional qualification in social insurance law and further training in systemic counselling are a great advantage
• You are open, resilient and reliable with a good sense of humour
• You have a pronounced organisational talent
• Ideally, you already have experience in psychiatry
• You have good oral skills in German and French

Your contacts

Yvonne Stadler

Yvonne Stadler answers your specialist questions:
T: +41 31 720 82 50
Yanis Emanuel Ryser

Email: bewerbungen@upd.ch
T: +41 58 630 96 71

Your workplace

Vogelsang 84, 2502 Biel