Specialist in Psychotherapy and Addiction Counselling 60-80 %

About the job

Would you like to join our interprofessional team of psychotherapists and social workers at the interface between social services and health?

The Addiction Specialist Centre Zurich supports those affected by addiction problems and their relatives (adults, adolescents and children). With us, you will find information, outpatient psychosocial counselling, psychotherapeutic support as well as an addiction medicine consultation. We also organise psychoeducational and therapeutic groups. In addition, our services include coaching, workplace addiction prevention and tailored training for professionals and managers from various fields.

For our Counselling and Therapy department, we are looking for a specialist in psychotherapy and addiction counselling (60-80%) immediately or by arrangement.

Specialist in Psychotherapy and Addiction Counselling (60-80 %)

Your Tasks

• Psychotherapeutic support for people with complex and multiple indications
• Assessment, counselling and crisis intervention for people with risky substance use or behaviour or an addiction disorder
• Counselling and therapy for relatives, couples and families
• Implementation of outpatient measures for the justice system and the road traffic office
• Leading psychoeducational and/or therapeutic groups, including conceptual
  further development

Your Profile

• You bring experience in therapy and counselling of individuals and groups and are motivated to provide counselling both in personal contact and via online channels in writing.
• Language skills that also enable counselling in foreign languages are an advantage.
• Ideally, you have addiction-specific knowledge.
• Social skills, innovative ability, flexibility and a sense of humour also characterise you.

Our Offer

We offer regular working hours, challenging tasks with a high degree of independence and many opportunities for creativity as well as thorough induction. You will become part of an open and collegial specialist team with short decision-making paths. Our employment conditions are attractive and contemporary; the workplace is centrally located at Josefstrasse 91, 8005 Zurich (near Zurich main station).

Further information can be found at www.suchtfachstelle.zuerich . For further enquiries, the co-heads of the Counselling and Therapy department, Martin Fleckenstein or Corinne Paravecino, are happy to assist you at 043 444 77 00.

Are you interested and do you meet our requirements? Then we look forward to receiving your complete online application, which we kindly ask you to submit by 5 October 2026 via our application form.