Assistant Psychologist for the Liaison Psychiatry Service

About the job

Psychosocial

Assistant Psychologist for the Liaison Psychiatry Service

To complete its team, the Department of Psychiatry is seeking an assistant psychologist at an 80% activity rate. The starting date is scheduled for 1 January 2027.

Context

The Lausanne University Hospital (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 specialised Liaison Psychiatry Unit (UPLS) is attached to the CHUV Liaison Psychiatry Service (PLI). It coordinates and provides professional supervision to psychologists and psychiatrists specifically engaged within various CHUV care Services and Units (Palliative Care, Pain Management, Genetic Medicine, Oncology, Organ Transplant Centre, etc.). They participate in certain PLI meetings. The managers are supervised by the UPLS leaders according to their needs.

The psycho-oncology consultation is part of the CHUV Coordinated Oncology Centre. It is currently the largest specialised platform in this field in Switzerland. Its missions are to provide diagnostic and therapeutic care and follow-up for adult patients suffering from cancer; to serve as a regional reference service by coordinating the care of patients in the oncology field, taking into account services offered by other Department services – such as haematology, radio-oncology, immuno-oncology, and the experimental therapies centre – in collaboration with private partners, clinics, and regional hospitals.

This position includes a clinical component involving brief psychological assessments and/or interventions with oncology patients and their relatives, through individual, couple, and family interviews. Additionally, this position includes a second component: liaison work with the medical team through communications and recommendations to the team.

Mission

• You provide clinical activity within the Oncology Service and liaison activity within the multidisciplinary team
• You facilitate support groups and workshops
• You undertake postgraduate training.

Profile

• You have good knowledge of psychopathology
• You have been undergoing training in a psychotherapeutic approach for at least 2 to 3 years
• You have at least 2 to 3 years of clinical experience in a psychiatric setting
• You have an aptitude for multidisciplinary work.

We offer

Framework conditions supporting your postgraduate training. You will benefit from:

• weekly individual supervision with the service’s senior psychologist
• biweekly group supervision with the liaison psychiatry service
• specific training in psycho-oncology, to be defined
• specific liaison psychiatry conferences, to be specified

Becoming a collaborator at the Lausanne University Hospital means benefiting from:

• first-rate 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 month salary and 25 days of holiday per year
• a right to a minimum of three training days per year, with access to a varied offer within the CHUV Training Centre and partner training centres of the Canton of Vaud
• facilitated access to one of the 500 furnished apartments offered in the surrounding neighbourhoods for people relocating to Switzerland from abroad
• social, cultural and economic benefits offered to members of the H-Oxygène association
• benefits offered within the mobility plan (discounts on public transport subscriptions, promotion of "Mobility" vehicles and discounts on the purchase of electric bikes)
• hotel-quality staff restaurants in each hospital building with preferential rates.

Contact and application submission

Contact for information about the position: Ms Sonia Krenz, psychologist in liaison psychiatry, at 021 314 11 16

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