Associate Psychologist at the Specialized Liaison Psychiatry Unit

About the job

Psychosocial

Associate psychologist at the Specialized Liaison Psychiatry Unit

The Specialized Liaison Psychiatry Unit (UPLS) is looking for an associate psychologist with a workload between 50%-60% on a permanent contract, starting March 1, 2026.

Context

The Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) is one of the 5 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 CHUV Liaison Psychiatry Service provides care for adult patients of all ages suffering from somatic illness and presenting associated, consequent, or pre-existing psychological/psychiatric distress.

Mission

• You provide outpatient clinical activity (assessments, evaluations, groups, psychotherapeutic follow-ups)
• You participate in teaching in the field of the somatic unit and interface with liaison psychiatry
• You supervise assistant psychologists.

Gender dysphoria:

• You ensure the initial evaluation and psychological support follow-up of the medicalized gender transition of patients concerned with transgender issues
• You provide psychiatric liaison activity with other involved specialties
• You participate in joint interviews with patients' families within the consultation.

Intensive care:

• You lead and manage support groups for relatives of patients who have stayed in the resuscitation or intensive care unit
• You organize the groups and document the activity.

ENT:

• You perform the evaluation of patients suffering from tinnitus within the framework of a joint medical-psychological consultation.

Neurorehabilitation:

• You ensure the initial evaluation and psychological support follow-up of patients with neurological disorders
• You provide psychiatric liaison activity.

Profile

• You hold a master's degree in psychology or an equivalent qualification
• You have a FSP specialization title in psychotherapy
• You have very good knowledge of psychopathology
• Ideally, you have experience as a senior psychologist
• You possess knowledge in the field of liaison psychiatry.

We offer

Framework conditions for your continuing education:

• Occasional individual supervision as needed with the liaison psychiatry service
• Biweekly group supervision with the liaison psychiatry service
• Specific training and conferences in palliative care
• Specific conferences in the liaison psychiatry service

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

• Top 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 offered within the mobility plan (discounts on public transport subscriptions, promotion of "Mobility" vehicles, and discounts on the purchase of electric bikes)
• Quality company restaurants in each hospital building with preferential rates.

Contact and application submission

Contact for information about the position: Sonia Krenz, Psychologist at 021 314 11 16.

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