Unit Secretary at the Palliative and Supportive Care Service (12959-AD-200-2025)

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Unit secretary at the Palliative and Supportive Care Service

Attached to the Department of Medicine, the Palliative and Supportive Care Service, located at the Nestlé Hospital, is looking for a unit secretary at a 60% rate, on a fixed-term contract, starting March 1, 2026, or a date to be agreed upon, for the motor neuron center secretariat and for the extrahospital mobile team secretariat.

Context

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

Attached to the Department of Medicine, the Palliative and Supportive Care Service is responsible for all medical treatments, physical care, psychological, social, and spiritual support intended for patients suffering from a progressive incurable condition.

The motor neuron center project aims to create a Motor Neuron Disease Reference Center in the canton of Vaud to offer patients, particularly those with ALS, specialized, coordinated, and humane care, while establishing the French-speaking region as a center of clinical and scientific excellence. This project requires the support of a secretary to organize and manage schedules.

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Mission

• Ensure the administration of the motor neuron center project (organize meetings, take minutes, manage the referring physician's schedule)
• Conceptualize and document administrative support procedures for the extrahospital mobile team (propose improvements to existing processes and document them)

Profile

• You hold a commercial employee CFC or an equivalent qualification
• You have excellent organizational skills
• You have excellent analytical skills and are comfortable understanding and optimizing organizational processes
• You have perfect mastery of Excel
• You have perfect mastery of French and excellent interpersonal skills
• Autonomous, rigorous, precise, and reliable, you demonstrate discretion
• You have several years of experience in a complex and demanding secretariat, ideally in a hospital environment, which would be an asset.

We offer

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

• Top-tier social benefits, 20 days of paternity leave, and 4 months of 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 vacation per year
• A right to at least three days of training per year, with access to a varied offer within the CHUV Training Center and partner training centers of the State of Vaud
• Facilitated access to one of the 500 furnished accommodations offered in the surrounding neighborhoods 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 bikes)
• Quality hotel-style company restaurants in each hospital building with preferential rates.

Contact and application submission

Contact for information about the position: Valérie Schneiter, administrator, at 079 556 11 51.

Since all our applications are processed electronically, we kindly ask you to apply exclusively online by clicking the APPLY button at the bottom of the announcement.

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.

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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