Psychologist within the Adult Psychiatry Mobile Team - 80%

Psychologist within the Adult Psychiatry Mobile Team - 80%

• Part-time
• HUG contract type: Permanent
• Department: Psychiatry Department

Company Description

With more than 13,000 employees representing 160 professions, the Geneva University Hospitals are a nationally and internationally recognized institution. To learn more about our institution, take a few minutes to discover the highlights of the year 2024 by clicking here.

With nearly 1,000 employees, the Psychiatry Department's mission is to detect and treat increasingly frequent and diverse pathologies while respecting patients and their relatives. The department, using cognitive and affective neurosciences, a true flagship of the Geneva site, also carries out academic and clinical research at a high level of quality.

Quality teaching is also provided by the department to students as well as to doctors in training for specialist certification by raising awareness of psychological, biological, and social dimensions. The department also supports quality training in psychotherapy.

The adult psychiatry service is responsible for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of mental disorders in adults and psychiatric disorders beginning in young adults, within the framework of a public health mission. In the outpatient and inpatient units of the service, multidisciplinary teams provide care integrating biological, psychotherapeutic, and social treatments in a network with external partners.

Job Description

You carry out fieldwork with hard-to-reach patients (home visits, accompaniment in the city, etc.) to help them initiate psychiatric care and promote their maintenance at home (symptom monitoring - relapse prevention, assistance in developing autonomy as well as integration into the community).

You contribute to standardized diagnostic evaluation and exploration of the person's resources to define which resources to strengthen or develop.

You use psychotherapeutic techniques supporting recovery (exposure, behavioral activation, etc.).

You provide care in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team. In this context, you promote interdisciplinary clinical reflection on complex clinical situations through your psychotherapeutic and psychopathological skills.

You actively participate in research activities (collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data, presentation of results).

Qualifications

You hold a Master’s degree in psychology (or equivalent training) and possess a federal specialist title in psychotherapy or have progressed in training in this field (CBT or systemic orientation).

You have at least 3 years of practice in psychotherapy.

You have advanced training in methodology and research.

Experience with psychiatric patients and in research would be an asset.

You are able to work within a multidisciplinary team. You demonstrate autonomy and responsibility in professional activity and show interest in research.

Additional Information

• Work location: you travel throughout the canton of Geneva
• Start date: 01.01.2025 or to be agreed
• Number of positions: 1
• Activity rate: 80%
• Job class: 18
• Contract: Permanent
• Application deadline: 01.12.2025
• Contact for information: Mr. C. Delaloye, head of psychologists in the adult psychiatry service, tel 022 305 51 30, christophe.delaloye@hug.ch

Your application file must include a cover letter, your CV, copies of diplomas and work certificates, as well as a recent photo.

This announcement is addressed equally to women and men.

Wishing to engage in the fight against unemployment, the HUG encourages applications coming from the Cantonal Employment Office.

Only applications submitted via the recruitment platform will be considered. Paper and email applications will not be processed.