Senior Consultant in Neurology

About the job

Senior Consultant in Neurology

80-100%, start by arrangement

Your working environment

The University Geriatric Medicine FELIX PLATTER is a centrally located clinic in Basel with 300 beds. The clinic includes the departments of Acute Geriatrics, Neurology & Rehabilitation, as well as Dementia Diseases. Clinic, teaching and research are closely intertwined with us. We live interprofessional patient care and stand for meaningful work, strong team spirit and high professional competence.

For the Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation, we are looking for a Senior Consultant in Neurology (80-100%) due to the increasing demand for neurological expertise.

You can expect an exciting working environment in the fields of acute neurology and neurorehabilitation with a total of approx. 65 beds and staffing that allows sufficient time for patients, teaching and your own specialisations. We offer a wide range of diagnostic and treatment options (including EEG, ENMG, neurosonology, FEES, CT including CT angiography, gait analysis using GAITRite, lumbar puncture, neuropsychological assessments) and research activities at a university level. There is active interaction with acute geriatrics (including delirium unit and monitoring ward) and old age psychiatry (including memory clinic) on site. Interprofessional and interdisciplinary collaboration with flat hierarchies in a respectful working atmosphere plays a central role with us. Furthermore, there is close cooperation with the University Hospital Basel, which ensures optimal treatment of our patients at the highest level, not least through the development of a hospital-wide stroke treatment pathway.

We offer you predictable working hours, a manageable on-call load and a central location of our institution in Basel with very good public transport connections.

Your duties

Senior medical duties on the neurological and neurorehabilitation ward

Teaching of assistant doctors and junior assistants

Participation in neurological consultation service/diagnostics/clinics - depending on qualification/focus

Interprofessional and interdisciplinary collaboration with other medical and non-medical specialists

Participation in on-call duties

Active involvement in internal and external training events

What we offer

• Opportunity and support for developing your own specialisations (e.g. Parkinson’s treatment, spasticity treatment, stroke aftercare)

• Shaping and further development of the neurological-neurorehabilitation area and treatment spectrum

• Opportunity for supervised scientific work (including doctoral studies)

• Financial support for further training and participation in the diverse internal training programme

Your profile

Specialist in neurology or close to obtaining the specialist title

Commitment, willingness to work and a strong sense of responsibility

High social competence and enjoyment in dealing with our patients and their relatives

Enjoyment of interprofessional and interdisciplinary work

Proficiency in German at least at level C2

Application contact

Prof. Dr. med. Stefan Engelter

Department Head / Chief Physician

Area: Rehabilitation & Neurology

Specialties: Specialist in Neurology FMH, Neurorehabilitation (SIWF), Fellow of the European Stroke Organization, Fellow of the European Academy of Neurology, Certificates for Neuroduplex Sonography and Electroneuromyography

Further information

Applications from recruitment agencies will not be considered.