Specialist Psychologist

Heerbrugg

by arrangement

Your tasks

• As a member of our interdisciplinary treatment team, you will care for patients in the outpatient clinic.
• Following thorough induction, you will take over the psychotherapeutic assessment, treatment, and counseling of patients and their relatives in individual and group settings.
• Your varied daily work includes the entire spectrum of psychiatric clinical pictures, in which you conduct individual and multi-person conversations.
• You will coordinate treatments independently, plan therapies, and perform test psychological assessments.
• You will actively participate in reports, case discussions, and continuing education and maintain close exchange with other practitioners.
• With the support of our secretariat, you will complete case-related documentation, write reports, and record services in the clinical information system.

Your profile

• You have successfully completed your psychology studies and have already gained experience in outpatient or inpatient adult psychiatry.
• Your psychotherapy advanced training is recognized in Switzerland and is either completed or well advanced.
• You already possess the professional practice permit for psychotherapy of the Canton of St.Gallen or are willing to acquire it before starting the position.
• An interest in outpatient, interdisciplinary treatment distinguishes you, whereby you always take into account the individual needs of patients and their relatives.
• You are motivated to actively contribute your specialist knowledge, to develop professionally, and to help shape the future of psychiatry in St.Gallen.
• You bring initiative, a sense of responsibility, and very good German language skills (mandatory C1).

Your salary

At a 100% workload, your gross salary is expected to be between 109'000.- and 159'000.- Swiss Francs per year.

Your contact persons

Brunhilde Edelmann

Leading Psychologist, Head of Department Ambulatory Geriatric and Neuropsychiatry Heerbrugg

+41 58 178 77 64

brunhilde.edelmann@psychiatrie-sg.ch

Diana Mändli

HR Specialist Recruiting

+41 58 178 14 34

diana.maendli@psychiatrie-sg.ch

About us

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

Application process

Apply online

We are digitally active 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 Psychiatry St.Gallen. We will then contact you.
Interview with HR and specialist department

In a personal conversation, we will get to know each other and you will learn more about Psychiatry St.Gallen, 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. In addition, you will have the opportunity to get to know your future team.
Verbal offer

You will receive a verbal offer from us by telephone if we decide on you after the second interview, and we will ask if you also continue to be 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 accepting the position and your 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 prepare yourself for the job.
First working day

On the first day, onboarding in your new team and with other colleagues awaits you. You will set up your new workplace and get an overview of your next tasks. You will also receive your individual induction plan, which will help you to find your way around quickly.