Senior Physician / Consultant Psychiatrist Outpatient 80-100% - 42-Hour Week

As a senior physician at an outpatient psychiatric centre in Central Switzerland, you treat adults within a consistent team and, thanks to a 42-hour week and up to seven weeks of holiday, have more time for your family. You spend your evenings between Lake Zug and the Rigi mountain massif.

Here, psychiatric, psychotherapeutic, and addiction therapeutic basic care is provided for adults across an entire region. The outpatient clinic is part of a network of three locations in the canton. Each location has its own day centre, and the network is recognised as a Category A training centre. The provider is a psychiatric institution with around 600 employees, ensuring care in three Central Swiss cantons and serving as a teaching hospital for the University of Lucerne. It is large enough to offer all settings and internal transfers, yet small enough for decisions to be made quickly.

On site, you will find a consistent team that works closely and openly together. If necessary, you also exchange information with child and adolescent psychiatry. This is practical when the family is also a topic for patients.

And the surroundings? The location is a railway junction on the Gotthard line. Zug can be reached in about 20 minutes, Lucerne in just over half an hour, and direct trains to Zurich run every half hour. From the station, a cog railway runs up to the Rigi, where you can hike in summer and enjoy winter sports in winter. Lake Zug begins right next door.

Your tasks:

• You assess adults from the entire psychiatric diagnostic spectrum on an outpatient basis and treat them psychiatrically and psychotherapeutically. If necessary, you also prepare expert reports
• You support the management in triaging new patients
• You conduct conversations with patients, relatives, private practitioners, and institutions
• You supervise staff
• You work in a socially psychiatric-oriented, multidisciplinary team. If interested, you help design group therapies and conduct test diagnostics together with the psychological service

Your competencies:

• Specialist title in psychiatry and psychotherapy recognised in Switzerland
• Good knowledge of somatics and psychopharmacotherapy
• Enjoyment of teamwork, an empathetic approach to patients, and interest in social psychiatric issues; leadership experience is an advantage
• German language skills at level B2
• We are happy to support you in obtaining your MEBEKO recognition

Your benefits:

• More time for the family: 42-hour week for senior physicians and great flexibility in working hours and daily organisation
• Tailored holidays: 25 days of holiday (30 from age 55), plus the option to purchase 5 or 10 additional days
• A team that stays: consistent staffing, short distances, and quick decisions
• Excursions included: free annual passes for a local animal park, plus free or discounted yoga and sports offers
• Affordable travel: annual rail voucher worth CHF 185, plus an additional CHF 154 for public transport commuters
• Professional growth: generous, individually agreed support for further training with training days and cost coverage, plus the possibility of internal rotations
• Nature and connectivity: Rigi and Lake Zug on your doorstep, Zug, Lucerne, and Zurich directly accessible by train