Senior Emergency Medicine Specialist (M/F)
- 17 October 2026
- 100%
Job summary
L’Ensemble Hospitalier de la Côte (EHC) is a healthcare network serving the community.
Tasks
- Provide medical care for adult patients in emergencies.
- Ensure timely patient management for all types of urgencies.
- Lead and develop the emergency service team effectively.
Skills
- Requires ISFM specialist certification in general internal medicine.
- Strong leadership and teamwork skills are essential.
- Interest in teaching and quality improvement in healthcare.
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About the job
The Ensemble Hospitalier de la Côte (EHC) is a healthcare network serving the population for over 25 years. It offers local healthcare services, notably through its emergency department and medical on-call services. As part of an ambitious project to develop and coordinate emergency response at the regional level, the EHC wishes to strengthen its medical team and is seeking a senior emergency medicine specialist (M/F) for its Emergency Department and on-call network. You will join a team committed to a transformation dynamic, aiming to improve patient pathways, enhance the quality and safety of care, and develop genuine expertise in emergency medicine within the network.
Senior Emergency Medicine Specialist (M/F)
Start date and workload to be defined.
WE OFFER YOU
- The opportunity to actively participate in the construction and development of a regional emergency medicine organisation.
- A dynamic interprofessional working environment fostering collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement of practices.
- The possibility to contribute to structuring projects in the fields of training, simulation, quality, and care organisation.
- A senior physician role combining clinical activity, supervision, and participation in service development.
YOU HAVE
- ISFM title as a specialist in general internal medicine or an equivalent recognised qualification.
- Advanced interdisciplinary training in hospital emergency medicine and certification in prehospital emergency medicine.
- Certification in Point-of-Care Ultrasonography - POCUS.
- Proven clinical experience in emergency care management.
- Leadership skills, a sense of responsibility, and the ability to unite an interprofessional team.
- A strong interest in teaching, quality and safety of care, as well as the development of new projects.
YOUR OBJECTIVES
- Ensure medical care for adult patients: care, investigation, treatment.
- Ensure adult patients are seen within a short waiting time (with and without appointment and for all types of emergencies).
WE ARE
- An institution comprising acute care and rehabilitation facilities, a private clinic, nursing homes, medical centres, and on-call services distributed across the La Côte region, as well as the first clinical hypnosis school dedicated to healthcare in French-speaking Switzerland.
- A care network offering numerous internal mobility opportunities according to employees’ aspirations and development projects.
- More than 2000 employees caring for patients and residents in the region, sharing values of Responsibility, Proximity, Humanity, Competence, in an agile environment fostering project realisation.
- A training organisation committed to developing future professionals, with around 80 apprentices in 16 different trades, 200 university of applied sciences and technical college interns, and nearly 300 doctors in training.
For any further information regarding the position or the emergency development project, please contact Dr Thomas Schmutz, Chief Emergency Physician at EHC, at the following address: thomas.schmutz@ehc.vd.ch
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