Senior Physician - Geriatric Psychiatry

About the job

Senior Physician - Geriatric Psychiatry

80%, immediately or by arrangement

Your work environment

With over 1000 employees, the University Geriatric Medicine FELIX PLATTER is one of the leading institutions in Switzerland for geriatric medicine, psychiatry, and rehabilitation. With us, the highest medical competence and genuine empathy come together – become part of our dedicated team!

The geriatric psychiatry department of the University Geriatric Medicine Felix Platter is an interdisciplinary and interprofessional working department. Through close collaboration with the medical colleagues from geriatrics, neurology, and internal medicine within the hospital, patients with extensive somatic comorbidities can also be treated in geriatric psychiatry, thus avoiding transfers to other hospitals. Geriatric psychiatry has a highly specialized setting for people with pronounced behavioral abnormalities in dementia and/or delirium in dementia. In addition, there is a close connection to the hospital's Memory Clinic, where modern (early) diagnostic and therapeutic approaches are integrated into care. The department is also involved in university research structures (e.g., Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel), allowing staff the opportunity to actively participate in clinical and translational research projects.

Your activities

Senior medical leadership of an interprofessional ward team

Regular joint ward rounds with colleagues from geriatrics

Close collaboration with the Memory Clinic in the hospital with joint interdisciplinary case discussions as well as involvement in innovative concepts, e.g., in the area of biomarker-based diagnostics and novel therapeutic approaches

Close cooperation with the Delirium Unit in the hospital

Professional training of assistant physicians

Consultation and liaison activities within the hospital and in cooperating elderly and nursing homes as part of the geriatric psychiatric care networks

Opportunity to participate in clinical and translational research projects

What we offer

• Content and conceptual co-design of the evolving interdisciplinary geriatric psychiatric area at UAFP
• Training time with a focus on geriatric psychiatry
• Regular interdisciplinary geriatric medical training program within the hospital
• Joint psychiatric training events with the University Psychiatric Clinics Basel
• Opportunity for research and academic development in a university environment

Your profile

You enjoy working in a dynamic, interdisciplinary, and interprofessional team

You are interested in innovative care and therapy concepts

You appreciate the special features of a university environment with research and development opportunities

You want to combine clinical work with scientific curiosity and actively engage in clinical and/or translational research projects

You are in advanced specialist training or are a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy

You have experience and/or interest in the field of geriatric psychiatry

You have very good German skills, additional languages are an advantage

Application contact

PD Dr. med. Sarah Trost

Head of Geriatric Psychiatry

Department: Geriatric Psychiatry

Specialties: Specialist in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy MBA, focus on Geriatric Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Certificate in Consultation and Liaison Psychiatry (DGPPN, D), Certified Medical Expert SIM