Beschreibung
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With nearly 1,300 employees, the Department of Psychiatry has a threefold mission covering the treatment of mental disorders, education, and research. The department’s mission is to detect and effectively treat increasingly common and diverse pathologies with respect for patients and their relatives.
The adult psychiatry service is responsible for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of mental disorders in adults and psychiatric disorders beginning in young adults, within the framework of a public health mission. In the outpatient and inpatient units of the service, multidisciplinary teams provide care integrating biological, psychotherapeutic, and social treatments within a network of external partners. The Adult Psychiatry Service operates according to the principles of community psychiatry, which organises care around the patient in their environment and network. This approach aims to help those cared for maintain or develop social and/or professional activity within the community. Patients are also encouraged to retain a significant degree of initiative in their recovery journey. To this end, the therapeutic approach mainly consists of outpatient, mobile interventions and day programmes. Temporary hospitalisation is, however, possible.
Proactive and eager to contribute to the projects of a major institution such as the HUG, do you identify with our institutional values?
As an occupational therapist in adult psychiatry, you are responsible for developing and implementing an individualised therapeutic project centred on human occupations and adapted to the patient’s status.
You play a key role in promoting autonomy, rehabilitation, and psycho-affective support for patients suffering from psychiatric disorders. You work within an outpatient centre for integrated psychiatry and psychotherapy (CAPPI) offering psychiatric, psychosocial, and psychotherapeutic treatments to patients in the Servette sector.
You are responsible for managing occupational therapy treatment plans both individually and in groups, as well as recording services provided for billing purposes.
You manage and update patient records by documenting the services provided and clinical information.
You communicate information concisely. You measure and reassess therapeutic objectives during interdisciplinary meetings (visits and/or conferences).
You ensure the quality and continuity of care in collaboration with other health professionals.
Your role involves participating in interprofessional projects within your department and sharing your practice with the occupational therapy network at the HUG.
Qualifications
You hold a Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy or an equivalent diploma recognised and registered by the Swiss Red Cross.
You have proven experience with patients suffering from psychiatric pathologies and possess good knowledge of the Geneva healthcare network.
You are autonomous, creative, and have good integration and adaptability skills. You demonstrate openness to change, willingness to question your practices, and are capable of working in therapeutic co-leadership.
You must show an interest in developing occupational therapy practice in an outpatient setting while fostering interprofessionality. You have good self-awareness and understand your own limits.
You are able to develop social skills and pro-social behaviours, encourage occupational engagement, foster the patient’s intrinsic motivation, establish temporal-spatial references, identify the patient’s resources and difficulties, improve, remediate, reclaim, and maintain the patient’s skills.
Additional Information
- Start date: 01.09.2026
- Number of positions: 1
- Work rate: 70%
- Job grade: 15
- Contract: Permanent
- Application deadline: 01.07.2026
- Contact for information: M.J. Favre, Deputy Head of Care, jeremy.favre@hug.ch
Your application must include a cover letter demonstrating your motivation, your CV, copies of diplomas and certificates required for the position, and the last two work certificates.
This announcement is addressed equally to women and men.
Committed to combating unemployment, the HUG encourages applications from the Cantonal Employment Office.
Only applications submitted via the recruitment platform will be considered. Paper and email applications will not be processed.