General Practitioner F and/or D

About the job

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 Centre (Medizinisches Zentrum Biel). Its care offering is complemented by an ambulance network, two nursing homes, two radiology institutes, a centre for physical and cognitive therapies, as well as a home hospitalisation 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 around 80,000 inhabitants.

As part of the VIVA project, the Arc Network became the first fully integrated healthcare organisation 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 Centre (CMB) fully embodies the values of accessibility, continuity of care, and coordination. A true hub of primary care medicine, it brings together a multidisciplinary team composed of general practitioners, specialists, nurses, psychologists, therapists, and care staff. Each patient is supported by a referring doctor, ensuring personalised 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, specialised care, paediatric 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 appointment, from Monday to Saturday. It offers rapid, smooth, and coordinated access to care, reinforced by the expertise of the Swiss Medical Network to which it has been affiliated since 2020.

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

A reference point for the Biel region, the Biel Medical Centre is an example of modern local medicine, patient-centred, 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 medical practice (longitudinal follow-up) and the Walk-in Clinic (acute care without appointment), this role offers you a wide variety of clinical situations in a multidisciplinary environment.

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

• Conducting medical consultations to diagnose, treat, and monitor a wide range of pathologies, while ensuring patients’ general health.
• Performing comprehensive health assessments, including clinical examinations, medical history, and necessary prescriptions.
• Considering patients’ medical histories to provide tailored 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.
• Engaging in preventive actions, notably in screening, vaccination, and advice on healthy lifestyles.
• Keeping medical knowledge current and regularly training to provide quality healthcare services.
• Coordinating with other specialists if necessary, within multidisciplinary care frameworks.

Qualifications

• Recognised general or family medicine diploma in Switzerland or eligible for equivalence.
• Registration or MEBEKO recognition in Switzerland or ongoing procedure.
• 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 healthcare 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 enable everyone to develop their skills and progress 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 opportunities.

• 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