Senior Physician Psychiatry and Psychotherapy 80-100% - Outpatient Adult and Geriatric Psychiatry

Outpatient psychiatry with scope for creativity: You are responsible for the diagnosis and treatment of adults up to old age, shape the geriatric psychiatric services and pass on your knowledge to the next generation. If you wish, you can acquire the specialist title in geriatric psychiatry entirely on site - at an academic clinic near Basel.

Your employer is a large public-law psychiatric institution in north-west Switzerland. It treats adults as well as children and adolescents on an outpatient basis, day clinic, inpatient and in home treatment. In adult psychiatry there are several specialist focuses, including geriatric psychiatry, crisis intervention, addiction disorders as well as psychotherapy and psychosocial therapies. The institution is a certified training centre of the highest category.

The outpatient clinic works in social psychiatry and general psychiatry, with a focus on geriatric psychiatry. It has the highest category A training recognition for the specialist title in geriatric psychiatry and psychotherapy. Your workplace is a modern campus in a green setting, in a small town in the Basel agglomeration. With the S-Bahn you are in Basel in about a quarter of an hour. There is a car park for employees directly on the campus.

Your tasks:

• You bear the specialist medical responsibility for diagnosis and treatment in the outpatient setting, general psychiatry and geriatric psychiatry
• You assess psychiatric, somatic and psychosocial issues holistically and manage individual treatment concepts, with the aim of maintaining independence and quality of life for as long as possible
• You work closely with relatives, general practitioners, institutions and authorities
• You actively develop modern psychiatric and geriatric psychiatric treatment services and promote interprofessional collaboration
• You train assistant doctors, assistant psychologists and medical students

Your skills:

• Specialist title in psychiatry and psychotherapy or in the final year of training
• Enjoyment of outpatient treatment of people from 18 years to old age and of networked collaboration
• Independent, structured working style, high social competence as well as leadership experience or interest in professional development
• Good knowledge of German
• Foreign diploma? Recognition via MEBEKO is a prerequisite. You will be supported organisationally and financially by us

Your benefits:

• Additional title on site: You can acquire the specialist title in geriatric psychiatry and psychotherapy entirely at your own workplace, at a training centre of category A, if interested
• Academic environment: Teaching at the University of Basel and training of medical and psychological junior staff
• Transparent salary: comprehensible salary system with defined salary bands, paid in 13 monthly salaries, with regular review of pay equality
• Family and career: 16 weeks maternity leave with full pay, 10 days paternity leave, up to 12 months unpaid parental leave, discounted childcare places and a parenting allowance in addition to the child allowance
• Strong security: 100% salary in case of illness or accident for up to 730 days, own pension scheme in a cantonal pension fund
• Recreation: 25 days holiday (27 days from age 50), two additional days off after the third year of service, plus eleven public holidays
• Location: modern campus in a green setting, very well accessible by public transport, Basel in about 15 minutes