Care and Support Assistant - 80% to 100%

As part of the care for elderly female and male patients in complex situations, you perform basic care and maintenance tasks while maintaining excellent human relations. You also participate in the organization of daily activities to ensure their physical, psychic, and social well-being. Thus, you provide support and substitution in the daily life activities of female and male patients and in the support of their family. You ensure hospitality and housekeeping tasks related to the immediate environment of the patient and you contribute to their safety by respecting current hygiene and asepsis rules. You actively participate in the prevention of complications related to hospitalization in collaboration with other health professionals (pain, pressure ulcer prevention, fall prevention…). The geriatric psychiatry service has a strategic place within the canton of Genève with high demands and requirements for treating and caring for vulnerable female and male patients. With the benefit of a federal certificate of vocational training (AFP) as a care and support assistant (ASA) or an equivalent diploma recognized by the Croix-Rouge, you perfectly master French orally and in writing. Significant hospital experience with elderly female and male patients with psychiatric disorders and/or cognitive disorders such as dementia, Alzheimer's disease is a major asset. Training in these areas is also taken into account. Emphasis will be placed on the expertise of the candidates. You adapt quickly to changes in work rhythm in a complex environment, with a high care load that requires very good knowledge of the characteristics and needs of this population. You demonstrate excellent physical capacity to mobilize dependent female and male patients. You demonstrate a sense of welcome and communication and have the capacity to work in an interdisciplinary team. You possess team spirit and creativity and have a sense of organization and anticipation. You can work both in day shifts, as well as night and weekend shifts. Start date: To be agreed Number of positions: 6 Activity rate: 80% to 100% Job class: 08 Contract: CDI Application deadline: 31.07.2026 Request for information: M. S. Boudouh, deputy head of care, salem.boudouh@hug.ch Your application file must include a letter demonstrating your motivation, your curriculum vitae, copies of the diplomas and certificates required for the position, and the last 2 work certificates. This advertisement is addressed indistinctly to women and men. Wishing to commit to the fight against unemployment, the HUG encourage applications coming from the Office cantonal de l’emploi. Only applications submitted via the recruitment platform are taken into account. Paper and email applications will not be processed. With more than 13,000 employees representing 160 professions, the Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève are a reference institution at the national and international level. To learn more about our institution, take a few minutes to consult our 2025 retrospective by clicking here. Counting nearly 1,000 employees, the Department of Psychiatry responds to a triple mission concerning the treatment of mental disorders, training, and research. Thus, the department's mission is to detect and effectively treat increasingly frequent and polymorphic pathologies while respecting patients and their relatives. Quality teaching is also provided by the department to students but also to doctors in training for the specialist title by sensitizing them to psychological, biological, and social dimensions. The department also supports quality training in psychotherapy. Finally, the department seeks to understand the origins of mental disorders using cognitive and affective neurosciences, a true flagship of the Geneva site. To this end, it conducts patient-oriented academic and clinical research meeting a high level of quality. The geriatric psychiatry service of the HUG is the largest university institution in Switzerland for the care of psychiatric illnesses in elderly people. A particularity is the offering of an integrated postgraduate training program in geriatric psychiatry and psychotherapy which also takes into account neurology as well as physical medicine and neurological rehabilitation.