Occupational Therapist in Outpatient Geriatric Psychiatry - 80% to 100%

About the job

Occupational Therapist in Outpatient Geriatric Psychiatry - 80% to 100%

• Contract
• HUG contract type: Fixed-term
• Department: Psychiatry Department

Company Description

With more than 13,000 employees representing 160 professions, the Geneva University Hospitals are a nationally and internationally recognised institution. To learn more about our institution, take a few minutes to discover the highlights of the year 2025 by clicking here.

With nearly 1,100 employees, the psychiatry department fulfils a triple mission concerning the treatment of mental disorders, education, and research.

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 Geriatric Psychiatry Service offers psychiatric, psychosocial, and psychotherapeutic treatments to the elderly population of the canton of Geneva as part of a public service mission. The service contributes to the prevention of mental illnesses and the psychosocial consequences of psychiatric disorders in collaboration with various partners.

Job Description

As an occupational therapist in outpatient geriatric psychiatry, you are responsible for developing and implementing an individualised therapeutic project centred on human occupations and adapted to the patient’s status.

You play a key role in promoting autonomy, rehabilitation, and psycho-affective support for patients of AVS age suffering from psychiatric disorders, whether or not associated with cognitive impairments.

You are responsible for managing occupational therapy treatment plans individually as well as recording services provided for billing purposes. You manage and update patient files by documenting the services delivered and clinical information.

You communicate information concisely. You measure and reassess therapeutic objectives during interdisciplinary meetings (visits and/or conferences). You ensure the quality and continuity of care in collaboration with other health professionals.

You work within the mobile team of the Dementia Treatment and Prevention Unit (UTPD), which provides treatments at the patient’s home as well as within nursing homes in the canton of Geneva.

The multidisciplinary mobile team consists of doctors, nurses, social workers, and an occupational therapist. It works closely with the attending physician and home care providers.

Your role involves participating in interprofessional projects within your department and sharing your practice with the occupational therapy network at HUG.

Qualifications

You hold a Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy or an equivalent diploma recognised and registered by the Swiss Red Cross.

You have proven experience with patients suffering from psychiatric disorders, whether or not associated with cognitive impairments, and possess good knowledge of the Geneva healthcare network. You are autonomous, creative, and have good integration and adaptation skills. You demonstrate openness to change, willingness to question your practices, and are capable of working in co-therapeutic leadership.

You must show an interest in developing occupational therapy practice in an outpatient setting while fostering interprofessional collaboration. You have good self-awareness and understand your own limits.

You are able to develop social skills and pro-social behaviours, encourage occupational engagement, foster the patient’s intrinsic motivation, establish temporal-spatial references, identify the patient’s resources and difficulties, improve, remediate, reclaim, and maintain the patient’s skills. You have the ability to relay best practices in occupational therapy to partner structures and the network.

Additional Information

• Start date: as soon as possible
• Number of positions: 1
• Activity rate: 80% to 100%
• Job grade: 15
• Contract type: One-year fixed-term, renewable
• Application deadline: 27.05.2026
• Contact for information: Mr J. Favre, Deputy Head of Care, jeremy.favre@hug.ch or Ms V. Serrano, Head of Care Team, vanda.serrano@hug.ch

Your application must include a letter demonstrating your motivation, your CV, copies of diplomas and certificates required for the position, and the last two work certificates.

This announcement is addressed equally to women and men.

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

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