General Practitioner F and/or D

Company Description

A locally established institution firmly rooted in its region, the Arc Network offers comprehensive patient care. It includes two hospital sites located in Moutier and Saint-Imier, five Medicentres, and the Biel Medical Center (Medizinisches Zentrum Biel). Its care offerings are complemented by an ambulance network, two nursing homes, two radiology institutes, a center for physical and cognitive therapies, as well as a home hospitalization service. Thanks to its multidisciplinary expertise serving patients, the Arc Network provides high value-added medical services. With nearly 1,250 employees, it meets the medical and hospital needs of a population of about 80,000 inhabitants.

As part of the VIVA project, the Arc Network became the first fully integrated healthcare organization in Switzerland to offer a health insurance plan. The VIVA health plan is available to residents of the Jura Arc, ensuring optimal and coordinated care.

At the heart of this dynamic, the Biel Medical Center (CMB) fully embodies the values of accessibility, continuity of care, and coordination. A true primary care hub, it brings together a multidisciplinary team composed of general practitioners, specialists, nurses, psychologists, therapists, and care staff. Each patient is accompanied by a referring physician, ensuring personalized long-term follow-up.

The CMB stands out for its integrated approach, closely linked with partner hospitals and other entities of the Arc Network. It offers a wide range of services: medical consultations, outpatient emergencies, specialized care, pediatric follow-up, mental health, physiotherapy, wound care, dental medicine, and technical examinations (radiology, laboratory, etc.).

Thanks to its Walk-in Clinic, the CMB also meets urgent needs without appointments, from Monday to Saturday. It offers quick, smooth, and coordinated access to care, strengthened by the expertise of the Swiss Medical Network to which it has been affiliated since 2020.

Its VIVA general medicine practice complements this offering, providing insured persons of the VIVA health plan with personalized support integrated within the medical center itself. For the population of Biel, it constitutes a privileged entry point to all network services, while ensuring coherent, simplified, and sustainable medical follow-up.

A reference point for the Biel region, the Biel Medical Center is an example of modern local medicine, patient-centered, open to its territory, and committed to integrated care. To meet growing demand, we are looking for the following profile for a mixed position at the Biel site:

A General Practitioner F and/or D

VIVA Practice / Walk-in Clinic

Job Description

Mixed position between the VIVA general medicine practice (longitudinal follow-up) and the Walk-in Clinic (acute care without appointment), this position offers you a wide variety of clinical situations in a multidisciplinary environment.

By joining the VIVA practice in Biel, you integrate a patient-centered integrated care system, promoting coordinated pathways, active prevention, and daily interdisciplinary collaboration. In this role, your general activities include:

• Conducting medical consultations to diagnose, treat, and monitor a wide variety of pathologies, while ensuring the general health of patients.
• Performing comprehensive health assessments, including clinical examinations, medical history, and necessary prescriptions.
• Considering patients' medical history to provide adapted advice and recommendations.
• Carrying out regular patient follow-ups, ensuring comprehensive, preventive, and acute pathology management.
• Maintaining up-to-date medical records, ensuring precise traceability of consultations and treatments administered.
• Performing preventive actions, notably in screening, vaccination, and advice on healthy lifestyles.
• Keeping medical knowledge up to date and regularly training to provide quality health services.
• Coordinating with other specialists if necessary, within multidisciplinary care frameworks.

Qualifications

• Degree as a general or family physician recognized in Switzerland or eligible for equivalence.
• Registration or MEBEKO recognition in Switzerland or in process.
• Proven experience in general medicine and management of varied pathologies.
• Skills in preventive health management and chronic disease care.
• Ability to work in a team and collaborate with other health professionals.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to establish trust with patients.
• Ideally, you are comfortable in French and German (including Swiss German); any other language is an asset.

Additional Information

• We offer a varied and stimulating activity within a dynamic and constantly evolving institution. Our employees benefit from quality professional support as well as real career development prospects and very good remuneration conditions.

• Thanks to a highly qualified multidisciplinary team and state-of-the-art technical facilities, we guarantee a work environment conducive to excellence. Moreover, we place great importance on continuing education to allow everyone to develop their skills and evolve professionally.

• We pay particular attention to the diversity of life paths of our employees. Our positions are open to both women and men, in a spirit of inclusion and equal opportunity.

• Our institution promotes diversity and equity, encouraging applications from professionals of all backgrounds wishing to invest in a demanding and innovative medical environment.

Start date: immediately or to be agreed

Work location(s): BIEL– BIENNE