Specialist Physician Eating Disorders and Obesity (50-60%) - outpatient, planned, family-friendly

Do you want to help people regain a healthy relationship with food and their body? And are you looking for a position that allows you enough time for family, personal projects, or a second professional activity?

In a specialised clinic for eating disorders and obesity at a regional hospital, psychology, nutritional counselling, and medicine work closely together. Treatment is based on current scientific standards, with plenty of room for individual support. The hospital employs around 1,300 staff and is located in Oberaargau, easily accessible from Bern, Basel, and Zurich.

Your tasks:

• Diagnosis and medical support for eating disorders, obesity, and accompanying mental illnesses
• Joint case discussions and treatment planning within the interdisciplinary team
• Maintaining contact with referrers and partners inside and outside the hospital
• Contributing to the further development of the clinic
• Participation in the evaluation of therapy offerings

Your skills:

• Enjoy working at the interface of body and mind, including collaboration with other medical specialties
• Specialist title in psychiatry and psychotherapy or in general internal medicine, alternatively close to completion with an already completed outpatient training year
• Title from the EU? Recognition by MEBEKO is generally feasible, and Medimeo supports you in this
• Very good German language skills
• A plus: membership in SAPPM, the Swiss professional society for psychosomatics
• An open ear for patients and enthusiasm for teamwork

Your benefits:

• 50-60% workload with planned working hours in an outpatient setting, well compatible with family
• Parental leave above the legal minimum: 16 weeks maternity leave and 15 days paternity leave, both with full pay
• Monthly childcare allowance of CHF 180 to 250 in addition to statutory family allowances
• A collegial team from several disciplines
• Regular supervision and intervision as well as training opportunities
• Pension scheme where the employer covers more than half of the contributions
• In Oberaargau, you live where others go on holiday: among gentle hills, the Aare and the Jura, yet never far from Bern, Basel or Zurich