Assistant Psychologist/ Assistant Psychologist

This position is aimed at both psychologists and assistant physicians who are interested in further training with a focus on forensic psychiatry and psychotherapy and wish to further develop their professional competencies in a specialized forensic environment.

Assistant Psychologist/ Assistant Psychologist

Wil

by arrangement

Your tasks

• You actively accompany patients in the treatment process, conduct psychiatric and psychotherapeutic assessments as well as therapies under guidance, and support diagnostics and individual treatment planning.
• In interdisciplinary exchange with psychology, medicine, nursing, and social work, you contribute to a holistic and milieu-therapeutic approach to the care of patients.
• With a resource-oriented and individual treatment approach, you take personal needs as well as offense-specific aspects into account and support the development of safe and everyday-suitable strategies.
• You lead group therapies and actively contribute your ideas and professional impulses to the further development of the therapeutic offering.
• Within the framework of forensic treatment and the associated security requirements, you participate in risk assessments and make an important contribution to the safety of patients and the treatment team.

Your profile

• You have a completed degree in psychology and have already been able to gain professional experience in forensics.
• Your psychotherapy training is already advanced and you wish to further deepen your professional knowledge in a psychiatric psychotherapeutic environment.
• You already meet the requirements for a practice permit as an assistant psychologist of the canton or can meet them before starting the position.
• A respectful, unbiased, and professional manner with patients as well as reliable cooperation with internal and external specialists characterize your way of working.
• You handle the special structures and framework conditions of the enforcement of measures confidently and maintain a professional and reflective attitude even in demanding situations.
• High commitment, initiative, and very good German language skills in speaking and writing at least at level C1 round off your profile and enable you to communicate confidently in everyday clinical life.

Your salary

Your contact persons

Christiane Thomas-Hund

Chief Physician

Diana Mändli

HR Specialist Recruiting

About us

With around 1'400 employees, we ensure easily accessible, personal, and effective psychiatric treatments and the care of adults at our nine company locations in the cantons and Appenzell Ausserrhoden as well as in the Principality of Liechtenstein.

Application process

Apply online

We are digital and committed to sustainability, so we look forward to your online application via our homepage.

Confirmation via email

As soon as your application has been received by us online, you will receive a confirmation of receipt via email. We look forward to getting to know you based on your dossier and will check whether your qualifications, skills, and you as a person fit the advertised position and the psychiatry. We will then get in touch with you.

Job interview with HR and specialist department

In a personal interview, we will get to know each other and you will learn more about the psychiatry, the advertised position, and the challenges.

Invitation to a second interview

In the second round, we would like to get an even better picture of you and find out together whether we are a good match. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to get to know your future team.

Verbal acceptance

You will receive a verbal acceptance from us if we decide on you after the second interview, and we will ask you whether you are also still convinced by us. If we agree, we will prepare your contract.

The contract

In the following days, we will send you the contract in duplicate by post. With the contract, you will also receive relevant information regarding your employment.

Preboarding

Between the acceptance of the position and the first working day, as a new employee, you can already access relevant internal information. This allows you to form a differentiated picture of the company and...