Senior Physician / Senior Consultant Autism Specialist 60 - 100%

About the job

For our Autism Specialist Centre in Aarau, we are looking for you to start immediately or by arrangement as

• You will take on the personnel and professional leadership of the Autism Specialist Centre (in co-leadership with the Senior Psychologist and the Head of Special Education).
• You will lead the clinical staff in assessing patients suspected of having Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), advising their parents and caregivers, and providing treatment where necessary.
• You will administer common psychological test procedures and conduct psychopharmacological adjustments, consultations, and treatments.
• You will make diagnoses and assessments according to the valid diagnostic schema and develop an action plan based on these.
• You will participate in the background emergency service of the Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy.
• You will ensure mutual representation of your colleagues at your leadership level during absences.
• You will collaborate with the management of the Centre for Outpatient Triage, Crisis Interventions and Special Consultations, as well as other departments of the CAP and external partners.

• You hold a specialist medical title in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy FMH, are close to completing it, or have an equivalent MEBEKO-recognised qualification.
• Ideally, you have leadership experience and leadership training or are willing to undertake such training.
• You enjoy interdisciplinary and guideline-oriented work and actively promote it.
• You are motivated to provide the most efficient assessment and treatment of children and adolescents, involving their families.
• You are characterised by initiative, high social competence, appropriate communication skills, flexibility, and resilience.
• You are a humorous personality, both in everyday life and in dynamic situations, and thus complement our team ideally.