Medical Secretary for the Liaison Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit

About the job

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Medical Secretary for the Liaison Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit

The Department of Psychiatry at CHUV is seeking a medical secretary at a 40% workload for the liaison child and adolescent psychiatry unit at the Nestlé Hospital in Lausanne. The contract is permanent and the starting date is scheduled for 1 September 2026 or to be agreed upon.

Context

The Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) is one of the five Swiss university hospitals. In collaboration with the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne and EPFL, it plays a leading role in care, research, and education.

The Liaison Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit at CHUV cares for children, women, mothers, and their families under the Department of Woman-Mother-Child (DFME) at CHUV.

Its mission is to provide psychological care to children hospitalised in paediatrics and paediatric surgery departments, also supporting their families, in close collaboration with the medical and nursing teams of these departments. It has developed specific hospital-ambulatory care models with various specialised consultations in paediatrics and paediatric surgery (paediatric oncology, functional disorders, metabolic diseases, perinatal medicine, medical genetics, for example).

Our unit also operates in the Maternity ward, both pre- and post-partum, as well as in the Neonatology Service, to offer support to children, parents, and the parent-child relationship. It thus has expertise in perinatal psychiatry and severe early parent-baby pathologies. It also actively participates in the prevention of child abuse, in collaboration with the CAN-Team, whether in Maternity or paediatrics.

Finally, it also cares for children and adolescents hospitalised for child and adolescent psychiatric reasons in paediatrics, offering child and adolescent psychiatric assessment, therapeutic orientation, and/or crisis psychotherapeutic work.

Mission

• You ensure the maintenance of patients’ medical records (typing or proofreading various documents, archiving)
• You send copies of reports and discharge letters to the relevant doctors in agreement with the responsible physician
• You manage the follow-up of medical information requests
• You handle administrative management tasks for patients (opening, updating data, closing files)
• You perform checks on the entry of services
• You ensure the reception and orientation of unit users
• You manage the unit’s telephone calls

Profile

• You hold a Federal VET Diploma as a commercial employee or an equivalent qualification, ideally complemented by a medical secretary diploma
• You have at least 2 years of experience in autonomous medical secretarial work
• You have excellent command of French, both spoken and written (a foreign language is an asset)
• You possess excellent skills in common IT tools
• You have a service-oriented attitude and appreciate working in a multidisciplinary team
• You demonstrate empathy, flexibility, and excellent organisational skills
• You ideally know the functioning of Vaud state structures and parapublic bodies related to the psychiatric field.

We offer

Becoming a collaborator at the Lausanne University Hospital means benefiting from:

• Top-tier social benefits, 20 days paternity leave, and 4 months maternity leave (with the possibility of an additional month of breastfeeding leave)
• Regular salary progression adapted to responsibilities
• A 13th salary and 25 days of holiday per year
• A minimum of three training days per year, with access to a varied offer within the CHUV Training Centre and partner training centres of the State of Vaud
• Facilitated access to one of the 500 furnished apartments offered in the surrounding neighbourhoods for people relocating to Switzerland from abroad
• Social, cultural, and economic benefits offered to members of the H-Oxygène association
• Benefits offered within the mobility plan (discounts on public transport subscriptions, promotion of "Mobility" vehicles, and discounts on the purchase of electric bikes)
• Quality hotel-standard staff restaurants in each hospital building with preferential rates.

Contact and application submission

Contact for information about the position: Mr Julien Meguerditchian, coordinator of SUPEA secretaries, tel.: 021 314 40 26.

As all our applications are processed electronically, we kindly ask you to apply exclusively online by clicking the APPLY button at the bottom of the announcement.

If you have difficulty applying, you can consult our procedure on how to apply online. If for technical reasons you cannot apply online, we invite you to contact our Recruitment Unit, which will assist you in your process, either by email at e.recrutement@chuv.ch or by phone at 021 314 85 70.

As part of the recruitment process for this position, if hired, you will be required to provide an original criminal record extract. You will also be asked to present your original diplomas and an identity document.

CHUV applies the highest quality standards in its recruitment processes. Furthermore, committed to promoting diversity among our collaborators, we are attentive to different life paths and do everything possible to ensure equal treatment and prevent any discrimination. We look forward to receiving your application.

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