Psychologist 60-70% Centre for Liaison and Outreach Services

Do you enjoy interdisciplinary outreach work and child and adolescent psychotherapeutic counselling for psychosocial institutions?

The University Psychiatric Clinics (UPK) Basel are one of the leading psychiatric clinics in Switzerland. Our goal is the continuous improvement of the treatment of our patients to achieve their best possible quality of life. The close networking of patient care, teaching and translational research guarantees high quality and orientation towards evidence-based concepts.

The Clinic for Children and Adolescents (UPKKJ) is part of UPK Basel, fulfilling the care mandate for the canton of Basel-Stadt in both outpatient and inpatient settings. The tasks of UPKKJ include, in addition to university research and teaching, psychiatric and psychological diagnostics as well as evidence-based psychotherapeutic and psychopharmacological treatment of mental disorders in children and adolescents, taking into account their family and social environment.

The Centre for Liaison and Outreach Services of the UPKKJ is based on the principle of close interdisciplinary collaboration with psychosocial and socio-educational institutions (residential groups, transitional residential groups, etc.). It enables many children and adolescents to receive appropriate psychiatric care and timely psychiatric-psychological diagnostics in addition to the services offered by the respective institution.

Psychologist 60-70% Centre for Liaison and Outreach Services

Look forward to

• an exciting field of work in a liaison team/supervision group
• the opportunity to attend diverse internal training courses of a university clinic and its internal and external supervision offers
• employment conditions under the GAV (pension fund, accident insurance)
• an attractive and varied training programme (internal course programme, support for external training, professional and leadership development)
• TNW network: U-subscription at a discounted price (job ticket)
• free sports activities within and outside the UPK campus (such as Pilates, Power Yoga, gym; discounted fitness centre offer)
• beautiful park area, quiet working environment and catering facilities on the UPK campus

What to expect

• You are the primary contact person for psychosocial institutions and residential groups specialising in people from childhood to adolescence/transition to adulthood (diagnostics and triage of children and adolescents, crisis intervention, counselling of professionals)
• Outreach work
• You advise and supervise socio-educational teams
• Support professionals in institutions in developing trauma-sensitive attitudes and dealing with psychological issues in everyday educational work
• Child and adolescent psychiatric/psychometric diagnostics
• Conducting psychotherapies and group therapies
• Counselling and therapy for families under high psychological and psychosocial stress
• Deployment in the UPKKJ emergency service team

What distinguishes you

• Completed Master’s degree (or equivalent) in Psychology
• Completed psychotherapy training
• Experience in supervision and team counselling, ideally with additional training in supervision
• Experience and confidence in handling psychiatric crisis situations
• Solid clinical experience in child and adolescent psychiatry
• Social, design and action competence as well as creativity and a pragmatic, solution-oriented working style
• Interest and enjoyment in interdisciplinary, life-world-oriented work
• Flexibility and the ability to quickly adapt to different teams, institutions and conditions
• Enjoyment of independent, mobile and outreach work

The permanent position is available from 1 January 2027 or by arrangement.

Do you have questions? Contact us.

For further questions, please contact Dr Constanze Veigel-Maruschke, Medical Director, or PD Dr Marc Schmid, Psychological Director of the Centre for Liaison and Outreach Services, +41 61 325 82 00.

We look forward to receiving your online application.

About UPK Basel https://www.upk.ch/ueber-uns.html

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