Psychologist in the Assessment Center of the JVA Thorberg, 40%, temporary

Start of position:

1 December 2026 or by arrangement

Workplace:

Krauchthal

<<Execution according to measure>> is our motto at the Justizvollzugsanstalt Thorberg. We execute sanctions for 180 men from over 40 nations in closed execution. Our 130 employees are committed daily to the reintegration of offenders into society and thus make an important contribution to public safety. In eleven workshops, we lead and promote the admitted persons according to work-agogic principles. Our programs in the areas of work, therapy, education, sports and leisure are consistently oriented towards risk reduction and the social integration of the admitted persons.

The psychological assessment team creates a case summary for new admitted persons on the basis of files and interviews, performs a risk assessment and creates an initial provisional execution plan. In addition, it supervises admitted persons during a timeout in the assessment department.

Your tasks

• You provide [services] to persons admitted from the investigative prisons for criminal execution in the JVA Thorberg
• You carry out the study of criminal and execution files
• You lead psychological assessment interviews with the admitted persons
• You assess risks, identify resources and deficits of the prisoners and derive execution goals from them
• You conduct psychological conversations for stabilization, assessment of current challenges and resource promotion with admitted persons during timeout placements
• You work in a small team of psychologists, but also very interdisciplinary with other professional groups in the JVA
• You help to manage everyday work in the Assessment Center

Your profile

• Master's degree in psychology (Uni or FH), ideally with focuses on psychopathology and/or forensics/legal psychology
• Resilient, stable and confident personality
• Flexible, systematic and reliable way of working
• Team player
• Mandatory good oral French skills. Further oral foreign language skills are very welcome
• Proficient PC user skills

We offer you

A non-everyday, very independent job awaits you in a correctional institution, where you will help shape the future. Your workplace is located in a historically significant building in a unique natural landscape.

Contact

The position is temporary until 31.12.2027. There is a chance that it can be extended.
Interested? We look forward to getting to know you! Send us your application documents online by 31 October 2026 at the latest. Further information will be gladly provided by Ms. Anyi Steiner, Head of Special Execution (+41 31 635 64 07), anyi.steiner@be.ch.

About the Amt für Justizvollzug

The Amt für Justizvollzug (AJV) is responsible for the open and closed criminal and measure execution for adults and adolescents with around 1000 employees within the Sicherheitsdirektion des Kantons Bern (SID). To fulfill this task, the office has four concordat correctional institutions, four regional prisons, the detention station at the Inselspital, the detention management center as well as the probation and execution services at its disposal.

https://www.ajv.sid.be.ch/de/start.html