Senior Physician
Pfäfers
Key information
- Publication date:25 November 2025
- Workload:100%
- Place of work:Pfäfers
Job summary
Join our team as a senior psychiatrist at St.Gallen, where you'll provide vital outpatient care. Enjoy a collaborative work culture with great benefits.
Tasks
- Independently conduct outpatient treatments and psychiatric visits.
- Collaborate on developing conceptual offerings with the team.
- Ensure comprehensive psychiatric treatment for diverse patient needs.
Skills
- Must be a certified psychiatrist or nearing completion of training.
- Experience in geriatric psychiatry or related fields is preferred.
- Strong communication and teamwork skills essential.
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- As a senior physician, you independently carry out outpatient treatments at the St.Gallen location and are responsible for psychiatric visits in nursing and retirement homes.
- Together with the department management and the interdisciplinary team, you conceptually further develop the service offering.
- You participate in the organizational design and interdisciplinary collaboration in the outpatient clinic.
- You share responsibility for ensuring outpatient psychiatric-psychotherapeutic treatment of patients with disorders from the entire diagnostic spectrum.
- You are part of the medical staff and participate in the clinic-wide on-call service (two to three weeks of on-call duty per year).
- You are a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy or are at the end of your specialist training.
- You have a professional practice license from the canton of St.Gallen or meet the necessary requirements to obtain it before starting the position.
- Ideally, you hold the FMH specialist title "Geriatric Psychiatry and Geriatric Psychotherapy" or are willing to acquire it.
- You bring experience in treating geriatric psychiatric patients or in internal medicine, geriatrics, or neurology.
- You are committed, appreciate working with patients, and enjoy working in a multiprofessional team.
- You are an independent, team-oriented, communicative, socially competent personality motivated to further develop the field of geriatric psychiatry.
With around 1,400 employees, we ensure accessible, personal, and effective psychiatric treatments and care for adults at our nine company locations in the cantons of St.Gallen and Appenzell Ausserrhoden as well as in the Principality of Liechtenstein.
Apply Online
We are digital and committed to sustainability, so we look forward to receiving your online application via our homepage.
Confirmation by Email
As soon as your application is received online, you will receive a confirmation of receipt by email. We look forward to getting to know you through your dossier and will check whether your qualifications, skills, and personality fit the advertised position and Psychiatry St.Gallen. We will then get back to you.
Interview with HR and Department
In a personal interview, we get to know each other and you learn more about Psychiatry St.Gallen, the advertised position, and the challenges.
Invitation to the Second Interview
In the second round, we would like to get an even better picture of you and find out together if we are a good match. You will also have the opportunity to meet your future team.
Oral Offer
You will receive a telephone offer from us if we decide in your favor after the second interview and will be asked if you are still convinced by us. If we agree, we will prepare your contract.
The Contract
In the following days, we will send you the contract in duplicate by mail. Along with the contract, you will receive relevant information about your employment.
Preboarding
Between accepting the position and your first day at work, you as a new employee can already access relevant internal information. This allows you to form a detailed picture of the company and prepare for the job.
First Day at Work
On the first day, you will be onboarded in your new team and with other colleagues. You will set up your new workplace and get an overview of your upcoming tasks. You will also receive your individual introduction plan to help you quickly find your way.
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