Psychologist - 50%

Company Description ##

With more than 13,000 employees representing 160 professions, the Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève are a leading institution at the national and international levels. To learn more about our institution, take a few minutes to consult our 2025 retrospective by clicking here.

With nearly 1,300 employees, the Department of Psychiatry fulfills a triple mission involving the treatment of mental disorders, training, and research. Thus, the department's mission is to screen for and effectively treat increasingly frequent and polymorphic pathologies while respecting patients and their relatives.

The Liaison and Crisis Intervention Psychiatry Service manages the assessment, orientation, and interdisciplinary treatment follow-up of psychiatric disorders in patients who are hospitalized or followed in the context of outpatient consultations at the various HUG sites. The service also has the mandate to welcome, provide care to, and orient patients approaching the HUG emergency departments. The Service offers a stimulating and diverse clinical environment at the heart of the hospital, promoting interactions with many medical and surgical specialty services. It also offers a high-quality training framework, with structured internal training including clinical presentations and other interactive pedagogical formats.

The Liaison Psychiatry Unit (UPL) is located at the interface between the different medical and surgical specialties on one hand, and psychiatry on the other. It operates under hospital modalities performed at the patient's bedside, and for non-hospitalized patients whose state of health requires the organization of outpatient follow-up in a somatic specialty, whether following or not a hospitalization. Its deployment allows for the management of complex situations combining somatic manifestations or disorders with psychological suffering or manifestations. In all the services covered by liaison psychiatry, the UPL team, composed of psychiatrists and psychologists, is deployed to meet rich and varied clinical needs, always at the request of the physician in charge of the patient. Generally speaking, the discipline of liaison psychiatry contributes, within the general hospital, to the development of a global and integrative approach to the patient, transcending the body-mind duality. The intended psychological interventions are based on this integrative vision and are part of multidisciplinary work around the patient, centered on clinical, training, and research missions.

The fulfillment of our employees in their mission is an important value for us, with a personalized career path and several evolution perspectives within the Institution.

Job Description ##

You will join the Liaison Psychiatry Unit (UPL) and, within a multidisciplinary team, ensure the assessment, orientation, and psychological and psychotherapeutic follow-up of patients hospitalized in somatic care units or followed as outpatients as part of care provided by the neurology, neurosurgery, and neurerehabilitation services under the supervision of a liaison psychiatrist. If you enjoy working in a multidisciplinary team and have an interest and/or experience in psychosomatics or liaison psychiatry, join the UPL.

Qualifications ##

You hold a Master's degree in psychology and are in training or have obtained a MAS in psychotherapy. You have personal clinical experience in the field of psychosomatics or liaison psychiatry, and at least three years of clinical experience.

You have good abilities to work in a team, are able to cope with stress, and adapt to the diversity of clinical situations. You have a good analytical and synthetic spirit and know how to work autonomously.

You possess the cantonal right of practice or are able to obtain it before starting your duties.

For non-French speaking candidates, a C1 level of French in spoken and written tests is required.

Additional Information ##

• Start date: 01.12.2026 or to be agreed
• Number of positions: 1
• Activity rate: 50%
• Function class: 18 or 20 depending on experience and level of training
• Contract: CDD 12 months
• Application deadline: 02.10.2026
• Requests for information: Mme A. Dunand, responsible psychologist, [email protected] or Dre L. Benzakour, responsible unit assistant physician, [email protected]

Your application dossier 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 will be taken into account. Paper and email applications will not be processed.