Bern
Assistant Physician / Assistant Doctor for Children and Adolescents
- 10 August 2026
- 60 – 100%
- Permanent position
- German (Fluent)
- 3012 Bern
About the job
University Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
immediately or by arrangement
Your progress is our goal. Are you at the same time enthusiastic and cautious, brave and fearful, patient and impatient, clever and sometimes ignorant, but always searching for new solutions? Then you are right with us, because every day we are a bit of all these things. Would you like to be part of a university-based, innovative and dynamic team in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy in the capital of Switzerland? We offer you diverse opportunities at a university clinic to train as a specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy. Together with interdisciplinary teams and under close senior medical supervision and guidance, you can get to know the entire spectrum of mental disorders in childhood and adolescence, in order to diagnose and treat them independently step by step. In the first year, we prepare you intensively for emergency services so that you can more relaxedly discover the diverse experiences in this wonderful specialist field. Additionally, we support you in your wishes for reconciling family and work as well as university research.
Your tasks
- You take on diagnostic tasks and therapeutic case management under senior medical supervision
- You get to know the entire spectrum of mental disorders in childhood and adolescence and thus learn to treat and support our patients with various mental illnesses
- You work in an interdisciplinary team and actively contribute your medical expertise
- You also take responsibility in emergency services
- You continuously expand your diagnostic and therapeutic skills in the clinical field
- You participate in research and teaching
Your profile
- You have completed a medical degree recognised in Switzerland or have the corresponding approval (MEBEKO recognition)
- Professional experience is desirable but not mandatory
- You wish to pursue further training in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy or are interested in basic child and adolescent psychiatric care
- You want to be trained in an academic environment in modern and scientifically based methods of diagnosis and therapy
- You enjoy working in a team, take responsibility and have enthusiasm for the specialty and therapeutic work
- You look forward to the opportunity to participate in research and teaching
- You have German language skills at level C1
Your contacts
Dr. med. Cornelia Ursula Bieri-Scheidegger
Cornelia Ursula Bieri-Scheidegger answers your specialist questions: T: +41 58 630 98 32
For questions about the application process, please contact
Yanis Emanuel Ryser
Email: bewerbungen@upd.ch T: +41 58 630 96 71
The UPZ
The University Psychiatric Centre Bern (UPZ) is the leading competence centre for psychiatry and psychotherapy in the capital region as a university clinic. It ensures psychiatric care in the canton of Bern along the entire care chain, from early detection through outpatient, day clinic and inpatient therapies to rehabilitation and forensics. With over 30 locations, the UPZ offers a comprehensive care network. In addition, the UPZ makes an important contribution in the areas of teaching, training and further education as well as research.
Learn more
https://jobs.upz-bern.ch/de/warum-upz
Your workplace
Hallerstrasse 10, 3012 Bern
3012 Bern