Doctor, Head of Adult Intensive Care Medicine Department (13575-ME-999-2026)

About the job

Doctors

Doctor, Head of Adult Intensive Care Medicine Department

A leading international teaching and research institution, UNIL has nearly 5,000 staff and 17,500 students, distributed between the Dorigny campus and the CHUV and Epalinges sites. UNIL and CHUV promote excellence, recognition of individuals, and responsibility.

The Faculty of Biology and Medicine (FBM) and the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) are advertising a position for:

Start date: August 2027 or by agreement Location: Lausanne, Switzerland – 100%

Context

The CHUV SMIA is a reference service in intensive care medicine, providing specialised 24/7 care to a large population. It manages adult patients with organ failures, polytrauma, severe burns, or requiring post-transplant follow-up. With three polyvalent units (35 beds) and an intermediate care unit (7 beds), the service has a complete technical platform and highly specialised teams. Recognised for its medical (ISFM) and nursing (EP-SI) training, it offers a dynamic, interdisciplinary environment firmly focused on excellence. A major player in intensive care training and research, the SMIA conducts innovative projects of international scope and actively contributes to advancing knowledge in the field.

Mission

Position responsibilities:

• Lead the department, ensure its operation, organise and manage the development of all highly specialised medicine activities of a university adult intensive care unit.
• Ensure and strengthen the expertise and quality of the department’s clinical missions/services while developing multidisciplinary and inter-institutional collaborations and synergies in line with the CHUV strategic plan.
• Provide managerial leadership of the department, in close collaboration with nursing managers, departmental teams, and CHUV management.
• Unite, lead, and develop high-level clinical and academic research, funded by peer-reviewed external grants and published in quality scientific journals.
• Ensure and lead undergraduate (according to FBM needs), postgraduate (ISFM training centre cat. A1), and continuing education missions in the discipline, acting as the official discipline head.
• Guarantee a quality medical and scientific succession, consolidate the clinical and academic domain’s reputation internally and externally, and collaborate with hospitals of the Vaud Hospitals Federation (FHV), neighbouring cantons, Switzerland, and international networks.

Profile

Desired profile:

• Federal medical diploma (or mandatory Mebeko recognition), MD or MD-PhD.
• Specialist title in intensive care medicine (ISFM or mandatory Mebeko recognitions).
• Extensive clinical experience in adult intensive care in a tertiary centre.
• Ability to unite teams, inspire enthusiasm, and enhance the department’s attractiveness.
• Recognised managerial skills in leading a large team, training academic medical successors, and extensive project management experience.
• Academic knowledge and expertise at professorial level with proven practice in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.
• Ability to establish and lead clinical research programmes (peer-reviewed external funding).
• Good knowledge of French (native speaker or C1 ideal, minimum B2 with ability to acquire quickly).
• History demonstrating impeccable professional conduct: the selected candidate must provide all guarantees of integrity and compliance with the legal and regulatory requirements of the position.

We offer

We offer you a pleasant working environment in a multicultural and diverse academic setting. Opportunities for continuing education, a multitude of activities, and other benefits to discover.

UNIL and CHUV are committed to equality and encourage female applications www.unil.ch/egalite.

Contact and application submission

Applications, entirely written in English, should include i) a cover letter, ii) curriculum vitae, iii) list of publications with an indication of the five most significant articles, iv) a brief description of past and future research programmes, v) teaching experience (if applicable), vi) names and contact details of three referees, vii) copies of diplomas, and vii) a valid identity document.

They must be sent by 13 September 2026 (23:59 GMT+1) to wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/application as a single PDF file. The job description is also available at the same link.

Only applications submitted via this site will be considered.