Desk Secretary at the Palliative and Support Care Service (12731-AD-200-2025)

About the job

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Desk Secretary at the Palliative and Support Care Service

Attached to the Department of Medicine, the Palliative and Support Care Service, located at Beaumont Hospital, is looking for a reception secretary for the Unit bed starting January 1, 2026, or a date to be agreed upon. As part of your role, you will be required to work every day from Monday to Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Context

The Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) is one of the 5 Swiss university hospitals. Thanks to its collaboration with the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne and EPFL, CHUV plays a leading role in the fields of medical care, medical research, and education.

Attached to the Department of Medicine, the Palliative and Support Care Service is responsible for all medical treatments, physical care, psychological, social, and spiritual support intended for patients suffering from a progressive incurable condition.

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Mission

• You welcome patients, their relatives, colleagues, and visitors in accordance with CHUV's guiding principles
• You ensure medical secretarial duties for hospitalized patients (discharge letters, patient file archiving, etc.)
• You manage the unit's secretariat (ordering supplies, repair orders, etc.)
• You ensure communication between the various service stakeholders as well as with other CHUV services.

Profile

Primarily responsible for welcoming patients, their relatives, and colleagues and managing the entire unit secretariat. The reception secretary must be personable and rigorous.

• You hold a Federal VET Diploma as a commercial employee or an equivalent qualification
• You have perfect command of spoken and written French and excellent interpersonal skills
• You are autonomous, rigorous, precise, reliable, and discreet
• You have several years of experience in a reception and medical secretarial role, ideally in a hospital environment.
• You will be particularly in charge of reception

We offer

Becoming a collaborator of the Lausanne University Hospital means benefiting from:

• Top-tier social benefits, 20 days of paternity leave, and 4 months of maternity leave (with the possibility of an additional month of breastfeeding leave)
• Regular salary progression adapted to responsibilities
• A 13th salary and 25 days of vacation per year
• A right to a minimum of three training days per year, with access to a varied offer within the CHUV Training Center and partner training centers of the State of Vaud
• Facilitated access to one of the 500 furnished apartments offered in the surrounding neighborhoods for people relocating to Switzerland from abroad
• Social, cultural, and economic benefits offered to members of the H-Oxygène association
• Benefits offered within the mobility plan (discounts on public transport subscriptions, promotion of "Mobility" vehicles, and discounts on the purchase of electric bikes)
• Quality hotel-style company restaurants in each hospital building with preferential rates.

Contact and application submission

Contact for information about the position: Valérie Schneiter, administrator, at 079 556 11 51.

Since all our applications are processed electronically, we kindly ask you to apply exclusively online by clicking the APPLY button at the bottom of the announcement.

If you have difficulty applying, you can consult our procedure on how to apply online. If for technical reasons you cannot apply online, we invite you to contact our Recruitment Unit, which will assist you in your process, either by email at e.recrutement@chuv.ch or by phone at 021 314 85 70.

CHUV applies the highest quality standards in its recruitment processes. Furthermore, committed to promoting diversity among our collaborators, we pay attention to different life paths and do everything possible to ensure equal treatment and avoid any discrimination. We look forward to receiving your application.

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