Psychologist - psychotherapist - 40%

About the job

Psychologist - psychotherapist - 40%

• Part-time
• HUG contract type: Fixed-term
• 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 2025 retrospective by clicking here.

With nearly 1,100 employees, the Department of Psychiatry has a triple mission covering the treatment of mental disorders, training, and research. The department's mission is to effectively detect and treat increasingly frequent and diverse pathologies while respecting patients and their relatives.

Attached to the Department of Psychiatry, the Institutional Measures Service's main mission is to care for individuals subject to an institutional therapeutic measure (MIT) in closed (Curabilis) and open environments (Iris and Onyx units at the Belle-idée site) (art. 59-64 of the Swiss Penal Code), and to exercise quality control over outpatient follow-ups (art. 63 of the Penal Code) ordered by criminal justice. The IMS is jointly attached to the Department of Health and Mobility (DSM) and the Department of Institutions and Digital (DIN) of the canton of Geneva, and is ISFM certified as a postgraduate training site in psychotherapy. Its crisis care and specific psychiatric rehabilitation services comply with medical law and professional ethics rules.

Job description

As a psychotherapist in a multidisciplinary team, you provide psychological follow-ups and individual and group psychotherapies in forensic psychiatry, in one of the hospital units of the closed penitentiary establishment Curabilis for adult patient-inmates with chronic psychiatric disorders (psychotic disorders, personality disorders, substance addictions, paraphilias, etc.).

These follow-ups aim to prevent criminal recidivism and are part of a multidisciplinary care program, in close collaboration with the penitentiary security team and regular networking with judicial authorities in French-speaking Switzerland and Ticino.

These are exclusively follow-ups ordered by the justice system, specifically in the context of an institutional therapeutic measure under article 59 of the Swiss Penal Code.

You participate as a psychotherapist in team collaboration, case conferences, supervisions, case discussions, networks, and continuing education spaces of the forensic psychology and psychiatry-psychotherapy service. The Institutional Measures Service is recognized as an ISFM clinical practice site for psychotherapy training.

Qualifications

You hold a Master’s degree from a Swiss university in psychology or an equivalent diploma, and a federal psychotherapist title or are in postgraduate specialization in psychotherapy.

You have excellent knowledge of the French language and a genuine motivation for teamwork and networking.

Working in detention requires a clean criminal record and a certificate from the Debt Collection Office. You will be subject to a prior police investigation as part of your hiring process.

Additional information

• Start date: as soon as possible
• Number of positions: 1
• Activity rate: 40%
• Job class: 18
• Contract: 9-month fixed-term (maternity leave replacement)
• Application deadline: 23.04.2026
• Contact for information: Ms. K. Weber, head of psychologists, Institutional Measures Service, kerstin.weber@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, the 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.