Senior Consultant Forensic Psychiatry

On the security ward (BEWA), you will encounter a special senior consultant role at the interface of psychiatry, somatic acute medicine, and forensic psychiatry. You will treat people in custody with complex psychiatric and somatic conditions and work closely with the specialist disciplines of the acute hospital. In the Forensic Day Clinic (FTK) in Burgdorf, you will design and be responsible for the psychiatric-psychotherapeutic treatment of people in custody in a day clinic setting.

Both services are part of the forensic care triangle of the UPZ and offer you an exceptionally diverse field of activity. You combine forensic psychiatric expertise with somatic medicine, actively shape innovative care services, and work in an interdisciplinary environment that enables professional exchange and new perspectives.

Fancy a special role in Bern and Burgdorf?
Then we look forward to your application. Become part of our team and actively shape forensic care in the Canton of Bern.

Your tasks

• Senior consultant responsibility – You take on senior consultant responsibility for psychiatric care on the BEWA and in the FTK – in close collaboration with a committed, interdisciplinary team
• Patient care – You ensure a high-quality, evidence-based, and guideline-compliant forensic psychiatric-psychotherapeutic treatment
• Supervision & training – You supervise assistant doctors and actively contribute to their professional development
• Concept work – You participate in the further development of clinical concepts and bring your ideas and expertise into a multiprofessional environment
• On-call duty – You participate in the senior consultant on-call service of the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
• Research – You support ongoing research projects and can develop your own projects within the framework of the clinic’s research concept if interested

• Professional qualification – You hold the specialist title in psychiatry and psychotherapy with MEBEKO recognition for foreign diplomas or are already well advanced in your training
• Interest in forensics – You are motivated to deepen your training in the field of forensics and ideally bring initial forensic psychiatric knowledge
• Leadership & organisation – You have leadership experience, organisational skills, and an interest in leadership and training responsibilities
• Collaboration – You are characterised by teamwork, strong communication skills, and enjoyment of interdisciplinary collaboration
• Development – You show high commitment to the continuous development of the department
• Language – You have very good oral and written German skills

Your contacts

Prof. Dr. med. Johannes Kirchebner

Johannes Kirchebner answers your specialist questions:
T: +41 58 630 90 41
Yanis Emanuel Ryser

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

Your workplace

Bolligenstrasse 111, 3000 Bern 60