Medical Secretary for the Interventional Psychiatry Unit

About the job

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Medical secretary for the Interventional Psychiatry Unit

The Department of Psychiatry at CHUV is looking for a medical secretary at a 40% activity rate for the Interventional Psychiatry Unit. The workplace is located in Prilly (Cery site), on a permanent contract. The starting date is scheduled for 1 August 2026 or to be agreed.

Context

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

Interventional psychiatry is a branch of psychiatry that includes various methods of brain stimulation and modulation. These methods complement current standard treatments in psychiatry and psychotherapy. They include electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) and ketamine infusions.

This unit is associated with the University Service of Psychiatry of Advanced Age (SUPAA), a specialised service whose mission is to ensure care, teaching and research in the field of psychiatry for the elderly. This mandate is entrusted to it by the Department of Health and Social Action. It is led by Professor Armin von Gunten.

Mission

• You ensure telephone reception of the unit's patients
• You guarantee the administrative management of patients and handle admissions, updating patient data, and entering services
• You prepare medical files in anticipation of treatments
• You maintain medical records and ensure proofreading for correction of various documents in the file (consultation letters, discharge letters, reports, ...)
• You coordinate and organise appointments with patients and the responsible physician
• You provide support to collaborators and colleagues for various administrative tasks
• You manage mail and its distribution.

Profile

• You hold a Federal VET Diploma as a commercial employee, ideally complemented by a medical secretary diploma
• You have at least 3 years of experience in autonomous medical secretarial work
• You have perfect command of French, both spoken and written (a foreign language is an asset)
• You possess excellent mastery of common IT tools
• You have a service-oriented mindset and appreciate working in a multidisciplinary team
• You demonstrate empathy, flexibility and excellent organisational skills
• You ideally know the functioning of Vaud state structures and parapublic bodies related to the psychiatric field.

We offer

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

• First-class social benefits, 20 days paternity leave and 4 months 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 holiday per year
• A right to a minimum of three training days per year, with access to a varied offer within the CHUV Training Centre and partner training centres of the State of Vaud
• Facilitated access to one of the 500 furnished apartments offered in the surrounding neighbourhoods 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 bicycles)
• Quality staff restaurants in each hospital building with preferential rates.

Contact and application submission

Contact for information about the position: Mrs Vera Rodrigues, coordinator of SUPAA secretaries, tel.: 021 314 81 91.

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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

As part of the recruitment process for this position, if hired, you will be required to provide an original criminal record extract. You will also be asked to present your original diplomas as well as an identity document.

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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