Wetzikon
Senior Consultant / Consultant in Addiction Disorders
- 26 August 2026
- 60 – 100%
- Permanent position
- German (Fluent)
About the job
For the Wetzikon location, we are looking for an immediate or agreed appointment of a
Senior Consultant / Consultant in Addiction Disorders
60 - 100%
Addiction
The Clienia Psychiatry Centre Wetzikon (PZW) is an outpatient institution of Clienia Schlössli AG (Medical Director Prof. Dr. med. Wolfram Kawohl) and, together with the Clienia Psychiatry Centre Zürichsee (PZZ), holds the care mandate for the canton of Zurich. The psychiatry centres operate outpatient clinics with a wide range of specialist consultations, two day clinics, as well as a consultation and liaison psychiatry service. From Monday to Friday, 8 am to 6 pm, the PZZ and PZW provide psychiatric emergency services for the Zurich Oberland region. The PZZ and PZW are outpatient training centres of category A (3 years).
Your Tasks
In this role, as Senior Consultant / Consultant at the Wetzikon site, you will actively shape the outpatient-polyclinic care in the field of addiction disorders. You conduct assessment interviews and support patients with addiction disorders and psychiatric comorbidities in their psychiatric-psychotherapeutic treatment, including opioid agonist therapies (OAT) as well as heroin-assisted treatment (HeGeBe), a professionally demanding and socially significant field of activity. You participate in the emergency, consultation, and liaison service of the care region.
Your Profile
You bring several years of inpatient and outpatient psychiatric experience as well as advanced or completed psychotherapeutic training and hold the specialist title or specialist readiness for psychiatry and psychotherapy. Experience or strong interest in addiction medicine is an advantage. You work independently and with enthusiasm for the best possible, responsible, and well-networked patient care.
Our Offer
We offer you a varied and meaningful role in a committed interdisciplinary team where professional exchange and mutual support are a matter of course. You benefit from an extensive range of internal and external training and supervision, regulated working hours (Monday to Friday without night and weekend duties), as well as progressive employment conditions. Recognition as a training centre for the specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy category A (3 years PZW and PZZ), for the focus on psychiatry and psychotherapy of addiction disorders category B (1 year PZW), as well as for the focuses consultation and liaison psychiatry category A (2 years PZW) and old age psychiatry and psychotherapy category B (1 year PZW). There is the possibility of expert witness work upon request.
For further information, please contact Dr. med. (A) Elisabeth Scherr, Chief Physician, Tel. +41 44 931 39 39.
(Please send your online application directly to Dr. med. (A) Elisabeth Scherr, Chief Physician).
We look forward to receiving your application via the application tool.
Workplace
Clienia Schlössli AG
Psychiatry Centre
Bahnhofstrasse 196
CH-8620 Wetzikon
Tel. +41 44 931 39 39
info.pzw@clienia.ch
Your Contact Person
Dr. med. Benedikt Habermeyer
Chief Physician PZW
Tel. +41 44 931 39 39
