Psychomotor Therapist (Male or Female) in the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Service - 50%

Within the Maison OBB and as part of multidisciplinary and multi-weekly care, you will autonomously ensure psychomotor care (assessment, individual and/or group sessions using body mediation) for children aged 0 to 2 years and their parents. You accompany and support parenting, the child's psychomotor development, and the parent-child relationship. You participate in synthesis meetings and the development of therapeutic and orientation projects. Within the Maison OBB, a structure attached to the Office de l’enfance et de la jeunesse, primarily addressing particularly vulnerable families, you have the possibility to offer support in the development of parent-child bonds for high psychosocial risk families. You perform psychomotor assessments and then parent-baby support in close collaboration with the Maison OBB team (FOJ educational team) and the SPEA/HUG team (pedopsychologist, pedopsychiatrist of the Guidance petite enfance unit, pediatrician, adult psychiatrist, and social worker). In addition, you support and evaluate the establishment of parent-baby/child bonds during daily care (bathing, changing, meals, sleep, interactions/play…) and the skills of the baby/child as well as their psychomotor development by accompanying their parents in reading, decoding, and responding to their signals. You support and accompany the parent according to their psychic state (postpartum depression, personality disorder, non-decompensated psychiatric disorder…). Furthermore, you support and evaluate parenting skills. You may participate in joint interviews with the child psychiatrist or psychologist. Participation is also required in team colloquiums, supervisions, and psychosocial networks surrounding the family. Finally, on an administrative level, you are responsible for follow-up notes of the child's daily observations and the parent-baby relationship for each family. You participate in the development and writing of reports as well as billing. You hold a Bachelor or Master HES-SO in psychomotricity or have training deemed equivalent. You possess the cantonal right to practice or are able to obtain it before your start date. Experience in a hospital or institutional setting with children and practice of co-therapy in a multidisciplinary team are desired. Experience or training for young children is an asset. You are comfortable with the sensorimotor model and have awareness and/or training in sensorimotor assessment, group therapies, and parental support. You have an interest in multidisciplinary teamwork (nursing staff, ASSC, child psychiatrists, psychologist, speech therapist, social worker, educator) and working in partnership with the psychosocial network (HUG team, FOJ placement homes, SPMI…). You have excellent organizational skills, priority management, autonomy, stress resistance, and conflict management skills. You possess excellent interpersonal, communication, listening, and empathy skills to support parents and their baby/child and to co-construct the care project. You have excellent observation skills, openness to change, and self-reflection. You are available and have a great capacity for adaptation and creativity. You participate in training or congresses provided by the service. Start date: from 01.11.2026 Number of positions: 1 Activity rate: 50% Function class: 15 Contract: CDI Application deadline: 31.08.2026 Request for information: Dr F. Hentsch, deputy physician head of unit, tel. 079 553 87 14. 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 will be considered. 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 national and international levels. To learn more about our institution, take a few minutes to discover the highlights of the year 2025 by clicking here. The Département de la femme, de l'enfant et de l'adolescent has the mission of offering quality care adapted to the needs of women at each stage of their lives and to the health problems faced by newborns, children, and adolescent girls and boys from their birth until the age of 16. It works towards the development of cutting-edge services and specialty competence centers. The Service de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent (SPEA) deals with the hospital or outpatient care of children and adolescent girls and boys suffering from mental disorders. The teams work in multidisciplinary collaborations in a university environment offering many possibilities for undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuing education. The Maison de l’enfance et de l’Adolescence, which brings together all the activities of the SPEA, allows for responding to the current public health policy of the "1000 premiers jours" within the Guidance Petite Enfance unit. This unit brings together different modalities of intervention with families and their children from birth to 4 years: liaison activity, outpatient activity and activ