Senior Physician

• Your focus is on inpatient care in Pfäfers and outpatient care in Sargans.
• You take over the professional leadership of the interdisciplinary team in a partnership dual leadership with the nursing ward management in Pfäfers.
• You lead the focus area of geriatric and neuropsychiatry with outpatient services, day clinic, and memory clinic in Sargans.
• You independently and case-responsibly conduct treatments of outpatient patients in individual, group, and family settings including documentation, correspondence, and service recording.
• You ensure therapeutic and medical care together with assistant physicians and psychologists.
• You maintain and promote networking with surrounding nursing and retirement homes and take over ward rounds as well as consultative and supervisory requests.
• You accompany, nurture, and promote the assigned assistant physicians and assistant psychologists through structured training and regular supervision.
• Together with the senior physician team and nursing management, you continuously develop concepts and the orientation of the wards and locations in Sargans and Pfäfers.
• You enjoy variety and therefore find working at two locations, which are very close to each other, interesting.
• You participate in the clinic-wide background service (2–3 weeks per year). You also have the option to work exclusively inpatient at the Pfäfers clinic or exclusively outpatient in Sargans.

• You are a specialist physician in psychiatry or in training and are interested in the focus area of geriatric psychiatry (we are happy to support you in obtaining the title).
• You have a professional practice license from the canton of St. Gallen or meet the necessary requirements to obtain it before starting the position.
• You bring experience in treating psychiatric patients or in geriatrics or neurology.
• You are committed, like to take responsibility, feel comfortable in a multiprofessional team, and appreciate collaboration on equal footing.
• You are a flexible, team-oriented, communicative, and socially competent personality with motivation for further development.
• You enjoy working with patients and a recovery-oriented attitude is a matter of course for you.
• You have very good German skills (at least C1).

Apply Online

We are digital and committed to sustainability, so we look forward to receiving your online application via our homepage.

As soon as your application is received online, you will receive a confirmation of receipt by email. We look forward to getting to know you through your dossier and will check whether your qualifications, skills, and personality fit the advertised position and Psychiatry St. Gallen. We will then get back to you.

In a personal interview, we get to know each other and you learn more about Psychiatry St. Gallen, the advertised position, and the challenges.

In the second round, we would like to get an even better picture of you and find out together if we are a good match. You will also have the opportunity to meet your future team.

You will receive a telephone offer from us if we decide in your favor after the second interview and will ask if you are still convinced by us. If we agree, we will prepare your contract.

In the following days, we will send you the contract in duplicate by post. Along with the contract, you will receive relevant information about your employment.

Between accepting the position and the first working day, you as a new employee can already access relevant internal information. This allows you to form a detailed picture of the company and prepare for the job.

On the first day, you will be onboarded in your new team and with other colleagues. You will set up your new workplace and get an overview of your upcoming tasks. You will also receive your individual introduction plan to help you quickly find your way.