Peer Practitioner Research Officer (12829-RE-230-2025)

About the job

Research

Peer Practitioner Research Officer

The Community Psychiatry Service (PCO) is looking for a peer practitioner research officer at a 20% rate within its Research Unit. Fixed-term contract of two years, renewable.

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 life stages. It covers the Central, West, and North 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 to patients but also offer outpatient follow-ups and support in their usual living environment.

The Community Psychiatry Service provides psychiatric care for the adult population (18 to 65 years) of the Lausanne agglomeration. Community psychiatry aims to facilitate the integration and maintenance in the community of people suffering from mental disorders. Particular attention is paid to relational, social, and environmental factors influencing mental health. The therapeutic approach, focused on the recovery of the people followed, is multidisciplinary and relies on mobile, outpatient, and day activity interventions.

The Community Psychiatry Service has a Research Unit that studies means to promote the recovery of people with psychiatric disorders to lead a fulfilling civic life in the community. The Research Unit emphasizes the first-person perspective and the personal journey of patients. It contributes to the modernization of mental health care. The Research Unit is interdisciplinary and includes a research hub in community psychiatry and a research hub in transcultural psychiatry. It integrates expert patients and the associations representing them in the development, implementation of projects, and dissemination of results. Its goal is to be competitive in the scientific community and to offer robust scientific knowledge, international exchanges, and continuing research education. The Research Unit collaborates closely with other CHUV Services, the Haute Ecole de Santé de la Source, the Institute of Psychology of UNIL, the University Institute of Training and Research in Care of UNIL, as well as with European and Canadian research teams.

Mission

• You contribute to the design of research projects by bringing your perspective and expertise from your lived experience
• You collaborate in the implementation of research projects, notably by supporting clinical teams and participating in data collection
• You participate in the analysis and discussion of results from your expert patient perspective
• You take part in the dissemination and valorization of results through writing reports and scientific articles, co-leading training sessions, and intervening during teaching.

Profile

• You hold a bachelor’s degree or an equivalent qualification
• You have obtained or plan to obtain the "peer practitioner in mental health" certificate or an equivalent title
• You have experience in research and/or project management
• You have teaching experience
• You have an interest in clinical research in mental health
• You enjoy working within a multidisciplinary team
• You have good autonomy and a creative spirit
• You know how to listen actively and communicate effectively.

We offer

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

• Top-tier 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 hotel-style company restaurants in each hospital building with preferential rates.

Contact and application submission

Contact for information about the position: Dr. Stéphane Morandi, stephane.morandi@chuv.ch or at 079 556 55 93 (please do not apply via this email address).

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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

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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