Senior Psychologist Family Day Clinic Dolphin

University Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

from 1 February 2027 or by arrangement

Would you like to make a decisive contribution to the psychiatric and psychotherapeutic care of children and adolescents in the canton of Bern? Then engage as a Senior Psychologist in the Family Day Clinic Dolphin of the University Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the UPZ in Bern. The team of the Family Day Clinic Dolphin offers a day-patient psychiatric treatment service for children and their families. Within the framework of multi-family therapy, children aged 9 to 13 with a broad spectrum of mental disorders are treated, with the family being closely involved in the therapeutic process. You have the opportunity to co-lead and shape this service in a multiprofessional team. Become effective where you are most urgently needed and bring your passion for psychotherapy into patient care, new diagnostic and treatment concepts, as well as into the training of young colleagues.

Your tasks

• You take on the senior psychological leadership of the Family Day Clinic Dolphin in an interdisciplinary management team
• You lead a psychological team and work closely and multiprofessionally with the medical service as well as the staff of the clinic school, nursing and pedagogy
• You are therapeutically active yourself
• You take on a key role in the training and supervision of assistant psychologists and assistant doctors in the diagnosis and therapy of children and adolescents. In doing so, you actively involve the extended system (family, school and training)
• You take on conceptual tasks, continuously develop the diagnostic and therapeutic service and conduct supervisions
• You build valuable networks with specialist centres and expert groups in the region and maintain existing contacts
• You act at the interface between clinic and research and support the recruitment for research projects
• You have the opportunity to engage in teaching and in the internal continuing education programmes of the CAP

Your profile

• You have successfully completed your psychotherapy training
• You want to apply diagnostic and therapeutic concepts based on current evidence-based guidelines, pass on your expertise and actively further develop existing treatment concepts
• You bring experience in a comparable working environment and are motivated to jointly explore new paths and further develop innovative approaches
• You appreciate the networked collaboration with patients, their families, schools, training institutions and the extended health system
• You value and promote teamwork as well as interdisciplinary collaboration
• You are motivated to support treatment-accompanying research projects

Your contacts

Dr phil Andreas Witt

Andreas Witt answers your specialist questions: T: +41 58 630 82 63

For questions about the application process please contact

Nicole Portner

Email: bewerbungen@upz-bern.ch T: +41 58 630 96 71

The UPZ

The University Psychiatric Centre Bern (UPZ) is the leading competence centre for psychiatry and psychotherapy in the capital region as a university clinic. It ensures psychiatric care in the canton of Bern along the entire care chain, from early detection through outpatient, day-patient and inpatient therapies to rehabilitation and forensics. With over 30 locations, the UPZ offers a comprehensive care network. In addition, the UPZ makes an important contribution in the areas of teaching, training and further education as well as research.

Learn more

https://jobs.upz-bern.ch/de/warum-upz

Your workplace

Bolligenstrasse 111, 3000 Bern 60