Psychologist in the Assessment Centre of the Thorberg Correctional Facility, 40%, fixed-term

About the job

Start date:

1 December 2026 or by arrangement

Workplace:

Krauchthal

"Execution tailored to measure" is our motto at the Thorberg Correctional Facility. We enforce sanctions on 180 men from over 40 nations in closed custody. Our 130 employees dedicate themselves daily to the reintegration of offenders into society, thereby making an important contribution to public safety. In eleven workshops, we lead and support the inmates according to work-educational principles. Our programmes in the areas of work, therapy, education, sport and leisure are consistently aimed at risk reduction and the social integration of the inmates.

The psychological assessment team prepares a case summary for new inmates based on files and interviews, conducts a risk assessment and creates an initial provisional execution plan. It also supports inmates during a timeout in the assessment department.

Your tasks

• You admit inmates from remand prisons to the Thorberg Correctional Facility for penal execution
• You study the criminal and execution files
• You conduct psychological assessment interviews with the admitted inmates
• You assess risks, identify resources and deficits of the prisoners and derive execution goals from these
• You conduct psychological conversations to stabilise, assess current challenges and promote resources with inmates during timeout placements
• You work in a small team of psychologists, but also very interdisciplinarily with other professional groups in the correctional facility
• You help manage the daily work routine in the assessment centre

Your profile

• Master’s degree in Psychology (university or university of applied sciences), preferably with specialisations in psychopathology and/or forensic/legal psychology
• Resilient, confident and self-assured personality
• Flexible, systematic and reliable working style
• Team player
• Good spoken French is essential. Additional spoken foreign language skills are highly desirable
• Proficient PC user skills

We offer you

You can expect an unusual, very independent job in a correctional facility where you help shape the future. Your workplace is located in a historically significant building in a unique natural landscape.

Contact

The position is limited until 31 December 2027. There is a chance it can be extended.
Interested? We look forward to meeting you! Please send us your application documents online by 31 October 2026 at the latest. For further information, please contact Ms Anyi Steiner, Head of Special Execution (+41 31 635 64 07), anyi.steiner@be.ch.

About the Office of Correctional Services

The Office of Correctional Services (AJV) employs around 1000 staff within the Security Directorate of the Canton of Bern (SID) and is responsible for open and closed penal and measure execution for adults and juveniles. To fulfil this task, the office has at its disposal four concordat correctional facilities, four regional prisons, the surveillance station at Inselspital, the detention control centre as well as probation and execution services.

https://www.ajv.sid.be.ch/de/start.html