Assistant Physician 80 - 100% Geriatric Psychiatry

About the job

What you will achieve with us

• You will conduct integrative geriatric psychiatric and psychotherapeutic treatments in outpatient and day clinic settings.
• You will work interdisciplinarily in our certified Memory Clinic on the neuropsychiatric assessment of cognitive impairments as well as behavioural or personality changes.
• If interested, you will participate in the treatment of therapy-resistant depression (especially Esketamine treatment) and conduct home visits in regional institutions.
• You will work closely with specialised nursing staff, neuropsychology, the internal social service, general practitioners, Spitex, and regional elderly and nursing homes.

What you bring with you

• You hold a Swiss or MEBEKO-recognised medical diploma and are undergoing further training in psychiatry and psychotherapy or specialising in geriatric psychiatry and psychotherapy.
• The position is explicitly suitable as an external year for the specialities of geriatrics, general internal medicine, as well as for (re-)entrants from other disciplines.
• You bring self-responsibility as well as willingness for cross-departmental collaboration and participation in on-call duties.
• You have very good German language skills in spoken and written form (at least level C1).

Working with us

• You can expect a small, collegial interdisciplinary team with short communication paths and plenty of room for professional exchange.
• We offer you thorough induction into holistic differential diagnostics in direct collaboration with the SRO clinics for internal medicine, neurology, and radiology.
• We support your development through structured coaching, an extensive internal training programme, and continuous external case and psychotherapy supervision.
• If interested, attractive follow-up and rotation opportunities exist within the entire Psychiatric Services of SRO AG (SIWF category A for 3 years, both inpatient and outpatient) as well as in the Clinic for Internal Medicine / Geriatrics at Langenthal Hospital (e.g. for the clinical-somatic external year).
• Modern working and employment conditions according to the collective labour agreement as well as progressive social benefits complete our offer.