Health Specialist (FaGe) 60% Adult Forensic Psychiatry Department

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Health Specialist (FaGe) 60% Adult Forensic Psychiatry Department

Look forward to

• A responsible position with independent areas of responsibility
• A committed interprofessional team
• A recovery-oriented institution
• Specific further training opportunities in forensic psychiatry and general psychiatry as well as an attractive and diverse further training programme (internal course programme, support for external training, professional and leadership development)
• Regular supervisions, case discussions, team retreats and ethics consultations to best reflect on our challenging work
• Attractive and contemporary employment conditions under the GAV (such as: minimum 30 days holiday/time off per year, above-average pension fund benefits: 2/3 of pension fund savings contributions are paid by the employer and much more)
• The offer of a job ticket in the TNW network (U-subscription at a discounted price)
• A free sports offer on and off the UPK campus (such as Pilates, Power Yoga, gym; discounted fitness centre offer)
• Staff restaurant, Café Kranich and kiosk directly on the UPK campus
• A beautiful park area and quiet working environment

The Clinic for Forensics (UPKF), as part of UPK Basel, is a supraregional university centre covering the broad spectrum of forensic psychiatry and psychology in diagnostics, expert assessments, therapy, research and teaching. The UPKF includes the areas of adult and youth forensics with full care from consultation services in institutions and prisons to inpatient services and outpatient treatment as well as forensic psychology.

To fulfil these tasks, we work in an interprofessional team. Our work is guided by the principles of recovery orientation and we use dialectical behavioural approaches.

What to expect

• Administration and coordination (e.g. ordering, correspondence, appointment coordination)
• Daytime contact person
• Participation in and taking over nursing offers for daily structuring and activation
• Co-creation of the therapeutic milieu on the ward
• Tasks of the key worker after delegation
• Medical-technical tasks (e.g. blood sampling, urine samples)
• Co-responsibility for the safety of patients and staff
• Active participation in team meetings and supervisions

What distinguishes you

• You have a qualification as a Health Specialist (FaGe) with a psychiatric focus or professional experience in psychiatry
• You enjoy working with people with mental illness and find the forensic context exciting and interesting
• You see not only the illness and the offence but also the multifaceted person as a whole and use the team potential to support them in their mental health
• You possess strong competence in administrative and organisational tasks
• You enjoy contributing your own skills and strengths of your personality and thus making an important contribution to interdisciplinary collaboration

The permanent position is available from 1 January 2027 or by arrangement.

Do you have questions? Please feel free to contact us.

For professional questions, please contact Farid Nadali, Head of Nursing Department, at +41 61 325 54 52. For general questions, you can also contact Maurizio Chirico, HR Business Partner, Tel. +41 61 325 53 39.

We look forward to receiving your online application.

More benefits of working at UPK: https://www.upk.ch/ueber-uns/arbeiten-in-den-upk/wir-als-arbeitgeberin/anstellungsbedingungen.html

About UPK Basel https://www.upk.ch/ueber-uns.html