Assistant Physician / Assistant Doctor Psychiatry Center for Young Adults / 80% - 100%
Privatklinik Reichenbach b. Meiringen AG
Thun
Key information
- Publication date:01 September 2025
- Workload:80 – 100%
- Contract type:Unlimited employment
- Place of work:Thun
Job summary
The Privatklinik Meiringen offers comprehensive psychiatric care. It's a leading facility for mental health in Switzerland.
Tasks
- Manage therapeutic cases of inpatients under supervision.
- Responsible for diagnostics and multimodal therapy in a team.
- Conduct psychotherapeutic group sessions and weekend shifts.
Skills
- Swiss medical diploma or equivalent; C1 German level.
- Experience with psychiatric patients is a plus.
- Enjoy interdisciplinary teamwork and working with young adults.
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At the Meiringen Private Clinic, people with all forms of mental illness find admission, treatment, and care. The third largest psychiatric clinic in the canton of Bern is open to patients from all over Switzerland and abroad and is responsible for inpatient psychiatric basic care in the eastern Bernese Oberland. Care and support are provided according to the current medical-psychiatric and nursing knowledge.
The Meiringen Private Clinic, as a member of the "Swiss Leading Hospitals," is one of the leading private clinics in Switzerland.
At the PZJE (Psychiatry Center for Young Adults), we treat young adults aged between 16 and 25 years with disorders from the entire spectrum of psychiatry with comprehensive psychiatric-psychotherapeutic treatment. The center has 30 beds and is divided into a crisis intervention area and a psychotherapy area. Treatment is based on the latest evidence-based medical, therapeutic, and nursing knowledge.
Your tasks
- Therapeutic case management of inpatient patients under supervision
- Responsibility for admission, diagnostics, and multimodal therapy in an interprofessional team
- Conducting psychotherapeutic group sessions
- Weekend and late shifts as well as occasional night shifts at the PZJE
Our expectations
- Swiss or Switzerland-recognized medical diploma.
- Experience in diagnostics, dealing with, and treating mentally ill patients is an advantage.
However, we also welcome career starters or those from other specialties with a strong willingness to learn the field. - German language level at least C1
- Independent, committed, friendly, and collegial personality
- Enjoyment of interdisciplinary collaboration and working with young people
Our offer
- Further training in the current field of transition psychiatry
- Participation under guidance in our central therapy elements (DBT and Safewards)
- Direct psychiatric, psychotherapeutic, and internal medicine supervision
- Training center A for the specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy with comprehensive training content
- Financial support for further training, supervision, and psychotherapy training
- Opportunity for scientific work (PhD) if interested
- Independent and varied activity
