Social Worker or Nurse in the Community Psychiatry Service

Psychosocial

Social Worker or Nurse in the Community Psychiatry Service

The Community Psychiatry Service (PCO) is looking for a social worker or a nurse for the mobile psychiatry team. This is a fixed-term contract (FTC) of 5 months starting March 1, 2026, or as agreed.

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 Department of Psychiatry consists of 10 services addressing the three stages of life. It covers the Central, Western, and Northern psychiatric sectors of the canton. Its mission is the comprehensive and multidisciplinary care of children, adolescents, adults, and elderly people suffering from mental disorders. Caregivers provide acute care but also offer outpatient follow-ups and support in patients' usual living environments.

The Community Psychiatry Service (PCO) aims to develop a social psychiatry hub oriented towards the community. It brings together various units with a community vocation.

The activities of the mobile psychiatry service are organized around four axes:

• Intensive Follow-up in the Environment (SIM)
• Transition Case Management (CMT)
• Psy&migrants
• Social support for practicing physicians

Mission

As a social worker or nurse in the Intensive Follow-up in the Environment (SIM), your main missions will be as follows:

• You ensure a transition follow-up of case-management type in the environment for people with significant mental disorders while promoting their entry into care
• You facilitate access to the care network and encourage patient engagement by integrating their primary and secondary networks
• You meet beneficiaries, assess their difficulties in collaboration with a psychiatrist, organize additional investigations and/or referral to appropriate care
• You conduct psychosocial assessments and follow-up of patients with social issues.
• You share your expertise with the multidisciplinary team
• You inform, guide, and/or support the patient and their relatives in concrete steps: administrative, professional, legal, and relational
• You investigate to assess the role and skills of actors present in patients' primary and secondary social networks
• You work in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team of the mobile psychiatry section, with partners of the Community Psychiatry Service and the Vaud medico-social network
• You undertake liaison interventions (case discussions, meetings with potential patients) with partner institutions in the canton
• You actively participate in the projects of the Community Psychiatry Service.

Profile

• For social workers, you hold a Bachelor of Arts HES-SO in Social Work or an equivalent title - mandatory SEFRI recognition for foreign diplomas
• For nurses, you hold a HES nursing diploma or an equivalent title as well as Red Cross recognition for foreign diploma holders, imperative
• You have experience with people presenting mental disorders
• You have good knowledge of the Vaud socio-health network, medico-social institutions, administrative and legal structures, and accommodation facilities
• You have good autonomy and a creative and initiative spirit
• You possess good analytical and synthesis skills
• You know how to listen actively and communicate effectively
• You have a spirit of mutual aid and collaboration and demonstrate openness and flexibility
• You hold a driving license and a car (essential).

Depending on the profile, the salary scale will be between level 8 and level 9.

We offer

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

• First-class 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 electric bike purchases)
• Quality hotel-style company restaurants in each hospital building with preferential rates.

Contact and application submission

Contact for information about the position: Estelle Zürcher, head of social units PLI/PCO, at 079/556.38.62

Website: www.chuv.ch/fr/fiches-psy/service-de-psychiatrie-communautaire

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, you will need to provide an original criminal record extract. You will also be asked to present your original diplomas and 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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