Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Educator at eHnv (12620-PS-230-2025)

Psychosocial

Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Educator at eHnv

We are looking for an educator at an 80% activity rate, from December 1, 2025 to November 30, 2026, for the hospital child and adolescent psychiatry unit located on the Yverdon site of the Northern Vaud Hospital Establishments (eHnv).

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.

This position is to be refilled within our hospital child and adolescent psychiatry unit (5 beds), located on the Yverdon site of the Northern Vaud Hospital Establishments (eHnv). This position offers the opportunity to join a multidisciplinary team and to develop skills and creativity with young people aged 3 to 16 years, in crisis or presenting a psychiatric pathology requiring acute care.

Mission

• You ensure educational work in the context of a hospital child and adolescent psychiatric care unit in a multi-professional collaboration
• You promote the exchange and sharing of information concerning socio-educational care modalities
• You lead and co-lead various daily life activities
• You contribute to the creation of new development projects for the unit through participation in meetings or team supervisions
• You support the care unit in the evenings and on weekends.

Profile

• You hold a Bachelor of Science as a specialized educator (or an equivalent title, as well as SEFRI recognition for foreign diplomas, imperative)
• Experience in child and adolescent psychiatry is desired
• You are an autonomous and creative person, with strong relational skills with children, excellent integration capacity within a multidisciplinary team, as well as good communication and organizational skills.

We offer

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 a minimum of three training days 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: Mrs. Barbara Bordy, ICS, at 021 314 25 11.

Since all our applications are processed electronically, we kindly ask you to 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, we invite you to 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, it will be necessary to provide an original criminal record extract. You will also be asked to present your original diplomas as well as 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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