Ergotherapeutin / Ergotherapeut — Psychiatrie St.Gallen

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Your tasks

• As a member of our interdisciplinary treatment team, you look after patients in the outpatient and day-care area and actively contribute to a holistic ergotherapeutic care.
• After a thorough induction, you will take over ergotherapeutic treatments and support the team in the development and implementation of individual therapy plans to promote everyday management and improvement of cognitive, social and emotional abilities.
• Your varied workday covers the entire spectrum of psychiatric conditions and offers you the opportunity to work in both individual and group therapies.
• To specifically design the treatment, you plan therapeutic measures, carry out assessments to record the individual needs of patients and document the course in the hospital information system.
• At the Uznach/Rapperswil location, you will participate in rapports, case discussions and training courses and maintain a close professional exchange with the other practitioners.
• In the occupational therapy team, you accompany interns during their internship and support them in their training process. Your profile
• You have completed training as an occupational therapist and ideally already have professional experience in the psychiatric environment.
• You already have a professional training permit from the Canton of St.Gallen or you meet the requirements to obtain it before starting your job.
• You are interested in an interdisciplinary treatment and in a consistent orientation towards the needs of patients and relatives.
• Continuous professional training is important to you and you follow current developments in occupational therapy with interest in order to incorporate new insights profitably into your work.
• An independent and responsible working method as well as enjoyment of working in a committed team are among your strengths. With around 1,400 employees, we provide accessible, personal and effective psychiatric treatment and care for adults in the cantons of St.Gallen and Appenzell Ausserrhoden as well as in the Principality of Liechtenstein at our nine company locations. We are on the road digitally and are committed to sustainability, so we look forward to your online application via our homepage. As soon as your application has been received online, you will receive a confirmation of receipt by e-mail. We are happy to get to know you based on your dossier and check whether your qualifications, skills and you as a person fit the advertised position and the psychiatry St.Gallen. Then we will contact you. During a personal interview we get to know each other and you learn more about the psychiatry St.Gallen, the advertised position and the challenges. In the second round we would like to get an even better picture of you and find out together with you whether we fit together. You will also have the opportunity to get to know your future team. You will receive a telephone confirmation from us if we decide for you after the second interview and ask you if you are still convinced of us. If we agree, we will draw up your contract. The contract In the following days we will send you the contract by post in double. The contract also provides you with relevant information about your employment. Between the acceptance of the job and the first working day, you as a new employee can already access relevant internal information. So you can get a differentiated picture of the company and already prepare for the job. On the first day you can expect an onboarding in your new team and with other colleagues. You set up at the new workplace and get an overview of your next tasks. You also get your individual introduction plan, which helps you to find your way around quickly.

Tasks

• As a member of our interdisciplinary treatment team, you look after patients in the outpatient and day-care area and actively contribute to a holistic ergotherapeutic care.
• After a thorough induction, you will take over ergotherapeutic treatments and support the team in the development and implementation of individual therapy plans to promote everyday management and improvement of cognitive, social and emotional abilities.
• Your varied workday covers the entire spectrum of psychiatric conditions and offers you the opportunity to work in both individual and group therapies.
• To specifically design the treatment, you plan therapeutic measures, carry out assessments to record the individual needs of patients and document the course in the hospital information system.
• At the Uznach/Rapperswil location, you will participate in rapports, case discussions and training courses and maintain a close professional exchange with the other practitioners.
• In the occupational therapy team, you accompany interns during their internship and support them in their training process.

Requirements

• You have completed training as an occupational therapist and ideally already have professional experience in the psychiatric environment.
• You already have a professional training permit from the Canton of St.Gallen or you meet the requirements to obtain it before starting your job.
• You are interested in an interdisciplinary treatment and in a consistent orientation towards the needs of patients and relatives.
• Continuous professional training is important to you and you follow current developments in occupational therapy with interest in order to incorporate new insights profitably into your work.
• An independent and responsible working method as well as enjoyment of working in a committed team are among your strengths.