Checkpoint Zürich
Zürich
Senior Psychiatrist with Focus on Queer Health 60-100%
- 30 September 2026
- 60 – 100%
- Permanent position
About the job
Your tasks:- You take on psychiatric and psychotherapeutic assessment, counselling and treatment of gay, queer and trans people with complex issues with a great deal of personal responsibility and scope for design
- You work in a highly interdisciplinary team and actively contribute your professional perspective to the joint care
- You delegate purposefully and coordinate treatment closely with the team of psychologists
- You regularly participate in intervisions with the psychotherapists in the organisation
- You issue orders and cost approvals for our clients, in close cooperation with the team of psychologists
- You contribute to projects of the Checkpoint and help to further develop our offer for the LGBTIQ+ community
What you bring:
- Completed specialist training in psychiatry and psychotherapy (FMH)
- Knowledge of the life reality of queer people and a closeness to the target group - whether through personal or professional experience - is desirable
- Strong team player qualities combined with the ability to independently and with high quality awareness complete responsible tasks even on hectic days
- Openness and appreciation towards the most diverse life realities, sexual orientations and gender identities
- Good communication skills, resilience and flexibility in dealing with a demanding, diverse client base
- Enjoyment of direct client contact and working in an interdisciplinary, committed environment
- Foreign language skills are an advantage
What you can expect from us:
- You deepen your expertise in addiction medicine and actively shape the collaboration between psychiatry, psychotherapy, internal medicine and social work.
- We offer you a regulated 45-hour week from Monday to Friday, without night or weekend shifts in the ward operation, as well as 6 weeks of holiday and attractive conditions with the pension fund.
- We support you in further training and offer regular supervision and intervision.
- Look forward to an inspiring, collegial working atmosphere in a pioneering company of Swiss addiction medicine and become part of a committed team that supports you and achieves great things together with you.
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