Head of Clinic with Specialty Title or Associate Physician - 40% to 100%

Company Description

With more than 13,000 employees representing 160 professions, the University Hospitals of Geneva are a nationally and internationally recognized institution. To learn more about our institution, take a few minutes to view our 2025 retrospective by clicking  here .

With nearly 1,000 employees, the Department of Psychiatry fulfills a triple mission involving the treatment of mental disorders, education, and research. The department's mission is to effectively detect and treat increasingly frequent and diverse pathologies while respecting patients and their families.

Quality teaching is also provided by the department to students as well as to physicians in training for specialist certification by raising awareness of psychological, biological, and social dimensions. The department also supports quality training in psychotherapy.

Organized into 6 services, the department offers a very broad and diversified range of care including inpatient care, multidisciplinary outpatient care in various modalities and intensities, organized according to the principles of community psychiatry, as well as specialized programs and units. The department provides integrated, clinical, and structured quality teaching for physicians in training by raising awareness of psychological, biological, and social dimensions. The department also provides structured theoretical training in the 3 main psychotherapy models as well as individual and group supervisions included in the training curriculum.

The department also actively supports research pathways in connection with a translational and clinical research hub that meets a high level of quality.

Finally, the department seeks to understand the origins of mental disorders through cognitive and affective neurosciences, a true flagship of the Geneva site. To this end, it conducts patient-oriented academic and clinical research meeting a high standard of quality.

The TraumaCare consultation is deployed within the Liaison Psychiatry and Crisis Intervention Service. This specialized consultation has complemented the Department of Psychiatry's care offerings at the HUG since January 2022 by providing assessment, orientation, and follow-up for patients suffering from various psychotraumatic disorders (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders, Dissociative Disorders, Conversion Disorders, etc.) in outpatient consultations.  We offer you the opportunity to join the Department of Psychiatry at an exciting time of project implementation within a continuity of vision; a noble mission of major societal utility; participation in innovative activities within an academic framework; integration into a multidisciplinary and highly qualified team where interdisciplinarity is a guarantee of quality .

The fulfillment of our employees in their mission is an important value for us, with a personalized career path and several opportunities for advancement within the institution.

Job Description

You will join the TraumaCare psychotraumatology consultation at the HUG and, within a multidisciplinary team, ensure the psychiatric and psychotherapeutic assessment, orientation, and follow-up of consultation patients. You will provide support following the collective disaster in Crans-Montana on 01.01.2026 to patients consulting TraumaCare for prevention or treatment of psychotraumatic sequelae related to this event.

Qualifications

You hold a federal medical diploma and an FMH title in psychiatry and psychotherapy or have equivalent recognized training by the Medical Professions Commission of the Federal Office of Public Health (MEBEKO), as well as personal clinical experience in psychotraumatology.

You are trained or training in one of the psychotherapies recommended for managing psychotraumatic disorders (EMDR and/or trauma-adapted CBT).

You hold the cantonal practice license or are able to obtain it before starting the position.

For non-French-speaking candidates, a C1 level in spoken and written French is required.

Additional Information

• Start date: to be agreed or as soon as possible
• Number of positions: 1
• Activity rate: 40% to 100%
• Function class: 24 or 25 depending on role
• Contract: Fixed-term contract of 3 to 6 months (depending on rate)
• Application deadline: 10.02.2026
• Contact for information: Dr. L. Benzakour, deputy unit physician lamyae.benzakour@hug.ch  

Your application file must include a motivation letter, your curriculum vitae, copies of diplomas and certificates required for the position, and the last 2 work certificates.

This announcement is addressed equally to women and men.

Wishing to engage in the fight against unemployment, the HUG encourages applications from the Cantonal Employment Office.

Only applications submitted via the recruitment platform will be considered. Paper and email applications will not be processed.