Psychiatry Resident Doctor - 80% to 100%

About the job

Psychiatry Resident Doctor - 80% to 100%

• Part-time
• HUG contract type: Fixed-term contract
• Department: Department of Psychiatry

Company Description

With more than 13,000 employees representing 160 professions, the Geneva University Hospitals are a reference institution at both national and international levels. To learn more about our institution, take a few minutes to consult our 2025 retrospective by clicking here.

With over 1,300 employees, the Department of Psychiatry fulfils a triple mission concerning the treatment of mental disorders, education, and research.

Thus, the department's mission is to detect and effectively treat increasingly common and diverse pathologies while respecting patients and their relatives.

Organised into 6 services, the department offers a very broad and diverse range of care including hospital care, multidisciplinary outpatient care in various forms and intensities, organised according to the principles of community psychiatry, as well as specialised programmes and units. The department provides integrated, clinical, and structured quality teaching for doctors in training, raising their awareness of psychological, biological, and social dimensions. The department also provides structured theoretical training in the three main psychotherapy models as well as individual and group supervisions included in the training curriculum.

The department also actively supports research pathways that meet a high standard of quality.

Finally, the department seeks to understand the origins of mental disorders using cognitive and affective neurosciences, a true flagship of the Geneva site. To this end, it conducts patient-oriented academic and clinical research meeting high-quality standards.

Job Description

In line with your training path to obtain your title in psychiatry and psychotherapy, you will join a care unit of the department and, within a multidisciplinary team, provide psychiatric and psychotherapeutic follow-up for hospitalised or outpatient patients in your unit.

Alongside your activity, you will benefit from integrated, clinical, and structured postgraduate training of high quality according to the requirements of the FMH for obtaining the specialist title in psychiatry and psychotherapy.

You may also participate in ongoing research activities at the service level. You can also receive support to undertake a doctoral thesis.

Integrated quality training meeting the requirements of the Swiss Medical Association (FMH), which includes both practical training through clinical activity and theoretical training across all fields of psychiatry as well as the three main psychotherapy approaches.

As part of your training, you will undertake rotations within the different services of the department according to your chosen training path.

In addition to this practical and theoretical training, participation in psychotherapy supervisions and congresses is included.

The department covers the entire training.

Qualifications

You hold the federal medical diploma or have training deemed equivalent by the Medical Professions Commission of the Federal Office of Public Health (MEBEKO).

Experience in psychiatry and/or somatic medicine is an asset.

For non-French-speaking candidates, a C1 level in spoken and written French is required. When applying, please attach a certificate certifying your language level.

Additional Information

• Start date: 01.11.2027
• Number of positions: several
• Work rate: 80% to 100%
• Function class: 20
• Contract: 12-month fixed-term contract renewable as permanent
• Application deadline: 31.05.2027
• Contact for information: Dr J-P Bacchetta, assistant physician, recruitment commission coordinator, jean-pierre.bacchetta@hug.ch

Your initial engagement is fixed-term and will be converted to permanent from the second year of activity depending on the department's needs and the quality of your performance.

Information from the Swiss Medical Association (FMH) regarding the conditions for obtaining the specialist title in psychiatry and psychotherapy

Postgraduate training provided by the department: https://www.hug.ch/sante-mentale-psychiatrie/specialisation-psychiatrie-psychotherapie

Working conditions and procedures to be undertaken (including diploma recognition): https://www.hug.ch/emploi

Your application file must include a letter demonstrating your motivation, your curriculum vitae, copies of diplomas and certificates required for the position, and the last 2 work certificates.

This announcement is addressed equally to women and men.

Only applications submitted via the recruitment platform will be considered. Paper and email applications will not be processed.

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