Senior Consultant in Addiction Psychiatry 80-100% in the Basel Region

Are you still missing the specialist title in addiction disorders? In this clinic, you will acquire it where treatment truly begins after detoxification: As a senior consultant, you will shape a dual diagnosis programme with your own signature.

The journey from physical detox to the first real change lasts six weeks here. Detoxification takes two weeks, followed by four weeks of motivational therapy. During this time, patients engage intensively with their addiction in individual and group sessions. Most bring more than just addiction: trauma-related disorders, affective disorders, ADHD, or personality disorders are part of everyday life on this open ward.

The addiction area is a distinct clinical focus with a chief physician and senior physician. On the ward, you work closely with nursing staff, social work, and a dedicated psychology team. The focus extends beyond the ward to include three addiction outpatient clinics, a substitution centre, and day clinic services. This allows patients to continue treatment within the same network after discharge.

Work is based in the Basel region, with living perhaps soon in Basel. The city lies exactly where Switzerland, Germany, and France meet. You can travel to Alsace or southern Baden by tram. With around 40 museums, Art Basel in June, and a carnival that begins with the Morgestraich at four in the morning, Basel offers more culture than one might expect from a city of its size. On mild evenings, you can cross the Rhine on one of the old ferries powered only by the current.

Your responsibilities:

• You share senior consultant responsibility for detoxification and motivational treatments for addiction disorders with psychiatric comorbidities
• You clinically and diagnostically assess patients, determine indications, and manage and evaluate therapy
• You supervise and further train junior doctors and psychologists
• You conceptually develop the inpatient treatment programme for dual diagnoses
• You work closely with the multiprofessional team as well as internal and external partners

Your qualifications:

• Specialist title in psychiatry and psychotherapy
• For work in Switzerland, you require MEBEKO recognition. We provide advisory and financial support to obtain this
• Clinical experience with addiction disorders is desirable but not mandatory
• Enthusiasm for conceptual work and taking responsibility within a team
• German language skills at least at B2 level

Your benefits:

• Specialist title on site: You can fully acquire the addiction disorders specialisation at a training centre of the highest category
• Programme with your signature: You actively develop a modern dual diagnosis programme rather than merely managing existing processes
• Leadership experience: professional leadership and supervision of junior doctors and psychologists
• Addiction medicine in all settings: ward, day clinic, three outpatient clinics, and substitution under one professional roof
• Transparent salary progression: clear salary bands, salary paid in 13 monthly instalments
• Academic affiliation: The institution is a teaching hospital of the Medical Faculty of the University of Basel
• City life in Basel: living in the city, working in the Basel region, connected by the S-Bahn