Coordinator Secretary - 80%

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With nearly 1,300 employees, the Department of Psychiatry fulfils a triple mission concerning the treatment of mental disorders, training, and research. Thus, the department's mission is to detect and effectively treat increasingly frequent and diverse pathologies while respecting patients and their relatives.

Organised into two services (The CAAP Grand-Pré and the CAAP Arve), the department offers hospital and outpatient services.

The addiction service offers psychiatric, psychosocial, and psychotherapeutic treatments to all individuals suffering from an addiction with or without substances within the framework of a public service mission.

As a coordinator secretary, you manage the medical and administrative secretariat. You ensure telephone reception as well as patient reception by checking their administrative data, while ensuring compliance with current institutional and medico-legal requirements.

You handle the opening, creation, updating, filing, and archiving of the patient medical record according to institutional standards. You also perform billing control for therapists as well as data entry of reports into DPI.

You manage various insurance reports in coordination with the responsible physician (meeting deadlines), as well as the stock of materials and administrative forms in compliance with current institutional rules. You draft routine correspondence and perform other secretarial tasks specific to CAAP-GP.

You hold a Federal VET Diploma as a commercial employee or an equivalent qualification in the field of medical secretariat as well as the ECDL Base for Word & Excel.

You have a very good command of IT tools and institutional software used at HUG, such as DPI, DPA, OPALE, and GRECO.

You possess solid experience in psychiatry, including direct contact with patients, and have proven experience in independently managing a medical secretariat.

You have an excellent command of the French language; knowledge of English would be an asset.

Punctual, reliable, and autonomous, you have a sense of organisation and priorities and demonstrate very good stress resistance.

Rigorous, flexible, and quick, you are comfortable managing a heavy workload while being frequently called upon for various requests.

You are motivated to acquire new knowledge and to invest yourself in the role and demonstrate good team spirit.

Flexible in working hours, you will be required to work at various outpatient and hospital sites within the sector and department.

• Start date: 01.11.2026 mandatory
• Number of positions: 1
• Work rate: 80% - absence on Thursdays
• Function class: 10
• Contract: Permanent
• Application deadline: 22.10.2026
• Contact for information: Mrs F. Duchoud Pitzalis, head of secretariat, tel. 022 372 57 59

Your application file must include a letter demonstrating your motivation, your curriculum vitae, copies of diplomas and certificates required for the position, and the last 2 work certificates.

This announcement is addressed equally to women and men.

Wishing to commit to the fight against unemployment, HUG encourages applications coming from the Cantonal Employment Office.

Only applications submitted via the recruitment platform will be considered. Paper and email applications will not be processed.