Community Health and Care Assistant at SUPEA

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Community Health and Care Assistant at SUPEA

The Department of Psychiatry (DP) of the CHUV is looking for several community health and care assistants (ASSC) at 80% for the Emergency, Crisis and Orientation Hospitalization Unit for children and adolescents (UCO) at the Children’s Hospital (HE) in Lausanne, starting May 1, 2026, or a date to be agreed upon.

Your working hours will be exclusively at night (8:00 p.m. – 8:00 a.m.), including weekends and public holidays.

Context

The University Hospital of Vaud (CHUV) is one of the five Swiss university hospitals. Thanks to its collaboration with the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne and EPFL, CHUV plays a leading role in medical care, medical research, and education.

The Department of Psychiatry includes ten services covering the three stages of life. It encompasses the Central, West, and North psychiatric sectors of the canton of Vaud. Its mission is the comprehensive and multidisciplinary care of children, adolescents, adults, and elderly people suffering from mental disorders. Caregivers provide acute care but also offer outpatient follow-ups and care in the usual living environment.

The University Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Service (SUPEA) plays a major reference role in psychiatric treatments for children and adolescents in the Lausanne region and more broadly in the canton of Vaud. The service supports a vision of community psychiatry and therefore offers patients and families outpatient care close to home. We also provide hospital care, ensure liaison with pediatric units, and offer day center services in collaboration with partners. Additionally, we are involved in academic missions of training and research. Since January 2019, the service has brought together child and adolescent psychiatry from the North, West, and Central sectors of the canton under one governance to adapt our offer to the constantly evolving needs of the population.

Open 24 hours a day, the Unit welcomes minors in crisis situations or suffering from psychological difficulties requiring hospitalization in close collaboration with pediatric emergency services.

Short-term hospital care (5 days) takes into account psychological, educational, family, social, and school aspects. It emphasizes thorough evaluation and aims to understand the nature and meaning of the difficulties encountered by the adolescent, promoting resolution of the crisis situation that led to hospitalization to allow proper orientation at the end of the stay.

The medical and nursing team will also ensure evaluation of pediatric psychiatric emergencies presenting at the pediatric emergency department of the HE as well as evaluation and orientation of hospitalization requests in child and adolescent psychiatry in the canton of Vaud.

Mission

• You support the patients assigned to you and compensate for the disabilities of dependent persons in daily life activities
• You actively participate in welcoming and integrating patients into the service and ensuring the smooth running of their stay, maintaining effective communication with their relatives and the care team
• You collect and record data to identify patients’ needs, observe the evolution of their physical, psychological, and social state, and report these observations to the care team, participating in defining and implementing the care plan
• You establish, in a stable care context, a helping and supportive relationship under the supervision of the interdisciplinary team
• You organize and ensure the execution of activities delegated by qualified staff
• You provide, by delegation, authorized medical-technical acts in stable situations, in accordance with internal procedures and rules
• You perform authorized sample collections according to institutional procedures
• You plan and carry out administrative and logistical tasks related to your activity: maintenance of equipment, furniture, and patient environment, management of laundry and care materials
• You participate in integration activities and continuous quality improvement processes of care
• You provide direct care to patients and contribute to its continuity
• You lead daily life activities, expression activities, and therapeutic groups
• You ensure the identification, planning, execution, and evaluation of nursing care in preventive, curative, and educational fields, in accordance with professional standards and institutional rules.

Profile

• You hold a Federal Certificate of Competence (CFC) as a Community Health and Care Assistant or an equivalent title recognized by the Swiss Red Cross
• You have experience in psychiatry and/or child psychiatry and/or pediatrics
• You master spoken and written French
• You adhere to public service ethics and possess analytical, synthesis, listening, and communication skills.
• You demonstrate openness, flexibility, and are oriented towards mutual aid and collaboration.
• You have basic knowledge of office automation and IT (Windows environment).

We offer

Becoming a collaborator of the University Hospital of Vaud means benefiting from:

• Top-level social benefits, 20 days paternity leave, and 4 months maternity leave (with the possibility of an additional month of breastfeeding leave)
• Regular salary progression adapted to responsibilities
• A 13th salary and 25 days of vacation per year
• A right to at least three days of training per year, with access to a varied offer within the CHUV Training Center and partner training centers of the State of Vaud
• Facilitated access to one of the 500 furnished apartments offered in the surrounding neighborhoods for people relocating to Switzerland from abroad
• Social, cultural, and economic benefits offered to members of the H-Oxygène association
• Benefits within the mobility plan (discounts on public transport subscriptions, promotion of "Mobility" vehicles, and discounts on electric bike purchases)
• Quality company restaurants in each hospital building with preferential rates.

Contact and application submission

Contact for information about the position:

Mr. Frédéric Biron, Head Nurse of the Care Unit (ICUS), at 079 556 88 31.

Mr. Swen Courossé, Head Nurse of Service (ICS), at 079 556 55 64.

Since all applications are processed electronically, please apply exclusively online by clicking the APPLY button at the bottom of the announcement.

If you have difficulty applying, you can consult our procedure on how to apply online. If for technical reasons you cannot apply online, please contact our Recruitment Unit, which will assist you in your process, either by email at e.recrutement@chuv.ch or by phone at 021 314 85 70.

As part of the recruitment process for this position, if hired, you will be required to provide an original criminal record extract. You will also be asked to present your original diplomas and an identity document.

CHUV applies the highest quality standards in its recruitment processes. Furthermore, committed to promoting diversity among our collaborators, we pay attention to different life paths and do everything possible to ensure equal treatment and avoid any discrimination. We look forward to receiving your application.

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