Occupational Therapist Poolist in Psychiatry - 80%

Occupational Therapist Poolist in Psychiatry - 80%

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

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 consult our 2024 retrospective by clicking here.

With nearly 1,000 employees, the Department of Psychiatry fulfills a triple mission concerning the treatment of mental disorders, training, and research. The department's mission is to detect and effectively treat increasingly frequent and diverse pathologies while respecting patients and their relatives.

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.

Organized into 5 services, the department offers a very broad and diversified range of care including hospital care, multidisciplinary outpatient care according to different modalities and intensities, organized according to the principles of community psychiatry, as well as specialized programs and units. An integrated, clinical, and structured quality teaching is provided by the department for doctors in training by raising awareness of psychological, biological, and social dimensions. The department also provides structured theoretical training in the 3 main psychotherapy models as well as individual and group supervisions included in the training curriculum.

The department also offers active support for research pathways in connection with a translational and clinical research center meeting a high level of quality.

Finally, the department seeks to understand the origins of mental disorders using cognitive and affective neurosciences, a true flagship of the Geneva site. To this end, it conducts patient-oriented academic and clinical research meeting a high level of quality.

Job Description

As part of strengthening its teams, the Department of Psychiatry is recruiting an occupational therapist for its departmental reinforcement team. This position involves carrying out replacement missions, from short to medium duration, across all hospital and outpatient structures of the department, depending on needs.

You will work with patients of all ages presenting various psychiatric pathologies, providing individualized occupational therapy care adapted to clinical and institutional contexts. You contribute to the continuity and quality of care, in close collaboration with interprofessional teams.

You are responsible for managing occupational therapy treatment plans individually and in groups as well as recording services performed for statistical and/or billing purposes. You manage and update patient files by documenting the services provided 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 connection with other professionals.

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

Qualifications

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

You have proven experience with patients suffering from psychiatric pathologies and 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 ability to work in co-therapeutic leadership.

You must show interest in developing occupational therapy practice in institutional settings while fostering interprofessionality. You have good self-awareness and understanding of your own limits.

You are capable of developing social skills and pro-social behaviors, promoting occupational engagement, developing the patient's intrinsic motivation, establishing temporal-spatial references, identifying patient resources and difficulties, improving, remedying, reclaiming, and maintaining patient skills.

Additional Information

• Start date: 01.01.2026
• Number of positions: 1
• Activity rate: 80%
• Function class: 15
• Contract: Permanent
• Application deadline: 25.11.2025
• Contact for information: Mr. J. Favre, Deputy Head of Care, jeremy.favre@hug.ch and Ms. L. Vigna, Deputy Head of Care, laurence.vigna@hug.ch

Your application file must include a letter demonstrating your motivation, your CV, copies of diplomas and certificates required for the position, and the last 2 work certificates.

This announcement is addressed equally to women and men.

Wishing to engage in the fight against unemployment, 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.