MPA (m/f) - With Additional Tasks in Vocational Training & Process Optimization
Key information
- Publication date:30 October 2025
- Workload:100%
- Place of work:Basel
The Adullam Foundation is a leading institution for geriatric medicine, therapy, and care in Northwestern Switzerland. It operates a hospital and an affiliated care center each in Basel and Riehen. The approximately 800 employees offer elderly people a regionally unique comprehensive care from acute medicine through rehabilitation to transitional and long-term care. Holistic care at Adullam includes a high quality standard, lived humanity, and great respect for old age.
No day is like the other with us!
As a Medical Practice Assistant (MPA), you work at the interface between doctors, nursing, and administration. You bring your medical expertise, organizational skills, and empathetic nature into the daily care of our geriatric patients.
As a Medical Practice Assistant (MPA), you work at the interface between doctors, nursing, and administration. You bring your medical expertise, organizational skills, and empathetic nature into the daily care of our geriatric patients.
Due to retirement, we are looking for a committed, proactive, and competent person at the Basel location starting January 1, 2026
MPA (m/f) - With Additional Tasks in Vocational Training & Process Optimization
80%
| Basel Location
Your Tasks
Classic areas of responsibility:
- Organization of daily practice: working at reception, telephone service, appointment scheduling, administration, correspondence and electronic medical records, writing protocols as well as transcription from dictation
- Laboratory work: performing blood draws (venous/capillary), vaccinations, infusions (especially Ferinject) as well as simple laboratory tests (including internal and external quality controls)
- Assistance or performance of e.g. wound dressing and ear irrigations
- Application and removal of 24h ECGs and 24h blood pressure measurements
- Ensuring medical billing and invoice control (TARMED, SwissDRG)
- Close cooperation and communication with doctors, nursing, and interprofessional teams
Special tasks and areas of responsibility:
- Process optimization: You identify improvement potentials in administrative and medical workflows, develop practical solutions, and support their implementation (e.g. within Lean Hospital, Kaizen, or Six Sigma projects).
- Vocational training: As an MPA trainer, you take care of, promote, and support our apprentices in daily life – thus actively contributing to the development of the next generation of MPAs.
- Project participation: You contribute to internal hospital projects, especially in the areas of quality, digitalization, and interprofessional collaboration.
- Organization of daily practice: working at reception, telephone service, appointment scheduling, administration, correspondence and electronic medical records, writing protocols as well as transcription from dictation
- Laboratory work: performing blood draws (venous/capillary), vaccinations, infusions (especially Ferinject) as well as simple laboratory tests (including internal and external quality controls)
- Assistance or performance of e.g. wound dressing and ear irrigations
- Application and removal of 24h ECGs and 24h blood pressure measurements
- Ensuring medical billing and invoice control (TARMED, SwissDRG)
- Close cooperation and communication with doctors, nursing, and interprofessional teams
Special tasks and areas of responsibility:
- Process optimization: You identify improvement potentials in administrative and medical workflows, develop practical solutions, and support their implementation (e.g. within Lean Hospital, Kaizen, or Six Sigma projects).
- Vocational training: As an MPA trainer, you take care of, promote, and support our apprentices in daily life – thus actively contributing to the development of the next generation of MPAs.
- Project participation: You contribute to internal hospital projects, especially in the areas of quality, digitalization, and interprofessional collaboration.
Your Profile
- Completed training as MPA EFZ, ideally with experience in practice or hospital laboratory
- Further training or experience in process management / Lean Hospital / Six Sigma is an advantage
- Completed trainer course or willingness to complete it
- Solid knowledge of medical terminology and confident handling of MS Office as well as practice software
- Independent, structured working style with high quality awareness
- Empathy and joy in dealing with elderly people and their relatives
- Resilient, communicative personality with team spirit and organizational strength
- The workload is spread over four days – Tuesday is your day off
- Further training or experience in process management / Lean Hospital / Six Sigma is an advantage
- Completed trainer course or willingness to complete it
- Solid knowledge of medical terminology and confident handling of MS Office as well as practice software
- Independent, structured working style with high quality awareness
- Empathy and joy in dealing with elderly people and their relatives
- Resilient, communicative personality with team spirit and organizational strength
- The workload is spread over four days – Tuesday is your day off
Apply now and help shape a caring future for older people with us! We look forward to your application.
For further information, please contact Ms. Jasmin Kehrli, Head of Medical Secretariat, at +41 61 266 81 72.
Please apply exclusively via our homepage www.adullam.ch
For further information, please contact Ms. Jasmin Kehrli, Head of Medical Secretariat, at +41 61 266 81 72.
Please apply exclusively via our homepage www.adullam.ch
Our Offer
A job with meaning: You contribute to the best possible medical care for older people
Staff restaurant with discounted meals
Paid break with free morning snack
Development opportunities: Support for further training and active involvement in quality and process projects
Fair social benefits and attractive vacation regulations
Excitement & variety: Broad range of tasks between practice, laboratory, vocational training, and project work
Structure & support: Thorough onboarding, modern work tools, and clear processes
External company social counseling for employees
Warm welcome culture and appreciative working environment
Pure team spirit: An appreciative, interprofessional environment with heart and humor
Attractive employment conditions & benefits of the Adullam Foundation
About the company
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- Salary and benefits4.7
- Career opportunities5.0
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