Senior Physician in Geriatric Psychiatry (80-100%) - also without prior experience in geriatric psychiatry

Would you like to take responsibility for your own ward while advancing your professional specialisation? And are you looking for a clinic where people still know each other by name?
Call me or write to me via WhatsApp: Alexandra Amrein, +41 31 310 98 74. I will be happy to provide you with more information about this position in the Canton of Bern.

Your future employer is a regional hospital with two locations, providing medical care to around 150,000 people. The psychiatry department includes a dedicated geriatric psychiatry clinic, which is deliberately manageable: short distances, a personal approach, and close collaboration between doctors, nursing staff, psychologists, and social workers. As a recognised training clinic, it offers you the opportunity to specialise specifically. The hospital is located in a rural, hilly region, and the federal city of Bern can be reached by train in about a quarter of an hour.

Your responsibilities:

• Medical responsibility for an open geriatric psychiatric ward, in tandem with the nursing management
• Further development of the ward's treatment concept
• Professional management and supervision of ongoing therapies
• Guidance and training of assistant doctors
• Consultative assignments for older patients in the hospital's somatic departments
• Assignments in the regional psychiatric emergency service

Your competencies:

• Specialist title in psychiatry and psychotherapy, from Switzerland (FMH) or equivalent from abroad, or the qualification is imminent
• Title from Germany or the EU? The MEBEKO (Federal Medical Professions Commission) generally recognises it. The process takes a few weeks, and Medimeo supports you from the start
• Interest in working with older people
• Prior experience in geriatric psychiatry is a plus but not a requirement
• Sensitivity in dealing with patients and relatives
• Enjoyment of interdisciplinary collaboration

Your benefits:

• Opportunity to specialise in geriatric psychiatry as well as in consultative and liaison psychiatry, i.e. psychiatric care of patients in other hospital departments
• Employment according to collective labour agreement (GAV, comparable to a collective agreement in Germany)
• Day nursery directly in the hospital
• Family-friendly working conditions and duty rosters developed jointly within the team
• Staff accommodation at moderate prices for starting out in Switzerland
• Personal working atmosphere in a manageable clinic
• Nature on the doorstep and Bern within commuting distance