Chef ou Cheffe de clinique en gériatrie aiguë et réadaptation - 50% à 100% — HUG

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With over 13,000 employees representing 160 trades, the University Hospitals in Geneva are a reference institution at the national and international levels. To learn more about our institution, take a few minutes to consult our 2025 retrospective by clicking here . With nearly 1,500 collaborators, the Rehabilitation and Geriatrics Department (DRG) specializes in complex care for the elderly as well as patients with multiple pathologies. It consists of the three medical centres: geriatrics, internal medicine and rehabilitation and palliative medicine. It is spread over 6 sites: Trois-Chêne, Loëx, Bellerive, Beau-Séjour, Joli-Mont and Cluse Roseraie. Located in the heart of a park on the Belle-Idée estate, the Trois-Chêne Hospital welcomes people whose health requires hospitalization for acute geriatric or rehabilitation care. The Hospital has a geriatric emergency unit that can accommodate patients aged 75 and over, out of a vital emergency, a complete radiology unit, an intermediate care unit, and acute care and rehabilitation units.

Description of post

As head or head of clinic, you aim to obtain your position as a specialist in general internal medicine or geriatrics and want to join a team recognized for its clinical expertise, academic commitment and interdisciplinary approach to caring for the elderly. In this function, you ensure all clinical activities and evolve in a stimulating academic environment, at the interface of care, teaching and research. As part of your training course, you benefit from a structured tournus within the different units. You develop your skills in acute geriatrics, including continuous care and geriatric emergencies, acute medicine, including infectious disease, and cognitive and behavioural geriatrics. You are also involved in the psychiatric care of the elderly and in geriatric liaison, especially with patients in orthopaedic surgery and psycho-geriatric hospitals. Depending on your training plan, you can also intervene in rehabilitation units. Under the supervision of an assistant doctor or physician, you independently assess, diagnose and monitor often complex clinical situations, while providing your expertise to medical teams. You coordinate the clinical activities and the diagnostic and therapeutic strategies of the patients you are responsible for. You mobilize your clinical sense, analytical spirit and decision-making capacity to ensure quality management based on best medical practices. Thanks to your organizational sense and ability to manage priorities, you effectively conduct your clinical activities while responding to the many demands associated with your function (patients, telephones, correspondence, meetings). You ensure compliance with institutional procedures and actively contribute to the continuous improvement of the quality and safety of care. In the face of demanding situations and the diversity of issues you encounter, you demonstrate discernment, resilience and excellent stress management. Your intellectual curiosity and interest in the evolution of medical knowledge allow you to maintain a high level of expertise. Building on your team spirit, you show solidarity in the face of unforeseen and high workloads. You work closely with the entire medical-care team and ensure clear, fluid and respectful communication, both with your colleagues and with patients, by adapting your speech to their understanding. As head of clinic, you are actively involved in the supervision and training of in-house physicians by adopting a mentoring posture and sharing your expertise. In addition, you can participate in clinical research activities and you can start, depending on your personal interest, a quality or clinical research project with specific supervision.

Qualifications

You have a federal doctor's degree or training deemed equivalent by the Medical Professions Commission of the Federal Office of Public Health (MEBEKO). You get or are about to get the FMH General Internal Medicine Specialty. If you are in receipt of an FMH specialty title, you must have a right of practice in the canton of Geneva. For non-French candidates, the French level C1 on the spoken and written test is required. An experience in acute internal medicine (emergency or intermediate care) or in-depth training in geriatrics is a plus. You are a person with good communication skills in an interdisciplinary team and with the patient, you are dynamic, flexible and committed.

Further information

You can work both in daytime, nighttime and weekend hours.

• Place of Work: Three Oak Hospital
• Entry into office: to be agreed
• Number of posts: 3
• Participation rate: 50% to 100%
• Function class: 22 or 24 depending on function
• Type of contract: CDI and CDD (short term replacements possible)
• Deadline for applications: 05.11.2026
• Request for information: Dr. D. Zekry, Service Physician, [email protected] or Dr. K. Di Silvestro, Assistant Physician, [email protected].

Your application must include a letter showing your motivation, curriculum vitae, copies of the diplomas and certificates required for the position and the last 2 work certificates. This announcement is open to women and men alike. Wishing to engage in the fight against unemployment, the HUGs encourage applications from the cantonal employment office. Only applications submitted via the recruitment platform are taken into account. Paper and e-mail applications will not be processed.

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