Herisau
Dependency Unit (ABHB): Health Professional (m/f/d) - no night shifts & weekend shifts 80% - Hospital Network Appenzell Ausserrhoden
- 23 July 2026
- 80%
- Herisau
Job summary
Join the Spitalverbund AR team, providing essential healthcare services. Enjoy a supportive work environment with attractive benefits.
Tasks
- Collaborate within an interdisciplinary team focused on recovery-oriented care.
- Facilitate daily situations and lead therapeutic groups for patients.
- Manage organizational tasks and medication inventory adhering to safety standards.
Skills
- Completed training as a Fachangestellte/r Gesundheit; psychiatric experience preferred.
- Flexibility and readiness for shift work in a 24-hour operation.
- Interest in working with an interprofessional treatment team.
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About the job
The Hospital Network AR
The Hospital Network Appenzell Ausserrhoden with the acute hospital Herisau and the Psychiatric Centre AR in Herisau ensures extended basic medical care for the population in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden and is also the first point of contact for a large part of the population in the surrounding region. Both locations are relevant for care within the canton and beyond.
We are looking for
In the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy under the nursing management of Mr Sven Lang, Ms Séverine Buchter and Ms Melanie Bruderer are seeking a health professional for the Dependency Treatment Unit from 1 September 2026 or by arrangement, with a workload of 80%.
At your workplace, you will find an open and highly motivated interdisciplinary team with excellent team spirit.
We work recovery-oriented with an addiction psychiatric and psychotherapeutic treatment setting. Through milieu and therapy design, we promote the participation and self-responsibility of our patients.
Attractive tasks
- Strong, transparent and consensus-oriented collaboration in the interdisciplinary setting as well as with patients
- Support and management of everyday situations as well as leading milieu-therapeutic groups
- Main responsibility for the organisational and logistical processes on the ward (ward secretariat)
- Receipt of medication deliveries, stock checks and replenishment of medicine cabinets in compliance with hygiene and safety regulations
- Support in training tasks
- Electronic documentation with ORBIS NICE and other IT systems
Therefore, we want you
- Completed training as a health professional
- Experience in psychiatry
- Flexibility and interest in supporting teams on different wards during shortages
- Interest in working in an interprofessional treatment team
- Willingness to work shifts in a 24-hour operation
- Enjoyment of situations that are sometimes unpredictable
Additionally, you benefit from
We prefer direct applications. Recruitment agencies please contact Human Resources Management directly (bewerbermanagement@svar.ch). Applications without prior contact will not be considered.
- Appreciative atmosphere in a committed and lively interdisciplinary team
- Predominantly weekday shifts as well as no night shifts and weekend shifts
- Process-oriented induction by the team
- Other attractive benefits
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