Senior Consultant / Senior Physician Inpatient Geriatric Psychiatry

University Clinic for Geriatric Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

immediately or by arrangement

Geriatric psychiatry means combining medical excellence with foresight, humanity and scientific curiosity. At the University Psychiatric Centre (UPZ) Bern, you will actively shape geriatric psychiatry as a senior consultant or senior physician – professionally, structurally and in terms of content. You will take responsibility in clinical care, influence the further development of services and contribute your expertise in research, teaching and interdisciplinary collaboration. In a university environment with a high degree of freedom to shape your role, you will make a sustainable contribution to the care of older people with psychiatric illnesses and cognitive changes.

Your tasks

• You will medically lead a geriatric psychiatric ward (all clinical pictures) and actively shape the services
• You will treat patients with integrated psychiatric-psychotherapeutic care
• You will conduct geriatric psychiatric training and case supervisions within the interprofessional team
• You will lead and promote assistant doctors as well as the interprofessional team and participate in the clinical teaching of medical students
• You will network and coordinate care with adjacent psychiatric and somatic clinics and across sectors
• You will support research projects and, if interested and suitably qualified, develop your own scientific projects within the framework of a doctorate or habilitation

Your profile

• You have a specialist qualification in psychiatry, ideally with a focus on geriatric psychiatry, alternatively a specialist qualification in neurology, general internal medicine or a focus on geriatrics with corresponding clinical experience in psychiatry during your training period
• You have a completed medical degree recognised in Switzerland, the EU or EFTA (MEBEKO recognition)
• You are interested in neurocognitive disorders and geriatric medicine
• You enjoy working interprofessionally, are flexible and take pleasure in teamwork
• You act independently, proactively and in a structured manner
• You have command of the German language in spoken and written form at level C2

Your contacts

PD Dr med Dr phil Severin Pinilla

Severin Pinilla will answer your specialist questions: T: +41 58 630 79 84

For questions about the application process, please contact

Nicole Portner

Email: bewerbungen@upd.ch T: +41 58 630 96 71

The UPZ

The University Psychiatric Centre Bern (UPZ) is the leading competence centre for psychiatry and psychotherapy in the capital region as a university clinic. It ensures psychiatric care in the canton of Bern along the entire care chain, from early detection through outpatient, day clinic and inpatient therapies to rehabilitation and forensics. With over 30 locations, the UPZ offers a comprehensive care network. In addition, the UPZ makes an important contribution in the areas of teaching, training and further education as well as research.

Learn more

https://jobs.upz-bern.ch/de/warum-upz

Your workplace

Bolligenstrasse 111, 3000 Bern 60