Specialist Psychologist or Assistant Psychologist

Specialist Psychologist or Assistant Psychologist

80-100%

At the Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy (Clinic Director Dr med Angelo Bernardon), children and adolescents up to the age of 18 are treated. The integrated treatment offer of the clinic includes an outpatient area with a central outpatient clinic as well as four outpatient clinics distributed across the canton, a consultation and liaison service, and an inpatient area with an acute ward, two psychotherapy wards, a day clinic and a clinic school. The teams consist of clinical professionals from the fields of medicine, psychology, nursing and social pedagogy, and in the clinic school, teachers and special needs educators. The Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy is a teaching hospital of the University of Zurich and a certified training centre category A.

Profile

• You have a degree in psychology at master’s level
• You possess solid clinical training in the field of child and adolescent psychology and completed or advanced psychotherapeutic training
• You have great enthusiasm for systemic work with children, adolescents and their reference systems.
• You have a high degree of independence, can recognise connections and address appropriate solutions.
• You possess initiative, good communication skills with the necessary touch of humour, as well as a skilful handling of psychological stress
• You are confident in using common Office applications

Tasks

• You work in a committed interdisciplinary team of the outpatient clinic according to institutional objectives
• You independently take case responsibility and conduct assessments, psychotherapies, crisis interventions and counselling for psychologically burdened children and adolescents and their families
• You carry out psychiatric-psychological assessments with common instruments (psychopathological findings, test psychology, anamnesis, third-party information)
• You make diagnoses and assessments according to the valid diagnostic scheme and develop a measure plan based on professionally established, guideline-compliant methods and taking into account the individual circumstances of the children/adolescents
• You prepare the necessary treatment documentation and specialist reports and invoice the services provided

Benefits

Our employees are the heart of our company. That is exactly why we offer you so much: Further training is strongly promoted with us. We also invest a lot in team cohesion and offer all our teams access to the software "Moodtalk", which strengthens team communication. In addition, we offer attractive discounts at well-known brands such as Ikea, Zalando, Coop, Lidl and many more. Employees who commute to us by public transport receive a substantial eco-bonus at the end of the year. Additionally, we offer an attractive pension fund solution. Work-life balance is also promoted with us: We are always open to part-time work and offer the possibility to buy additional holiday.

Questions about the position?

Marina Gerwien Chief Physician

+41 56 461 96 90