Senior Physician Psychiatry with Focus on Queer Health 60-100%

Senior Physician Psychiatry with a Focus on Queer Health 60-100%

The Checkpoint Zurich is the health center for queer people and one of the largest in Switzerland for HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and sexual health. We offer a comprehensive range of medical, psychological, and psychosocial services. Additionally, we conduct campaigns and community work. The Checkpoint Zurich is part of Arud, a non-profit organization in the field of outpatient medical care and is operated in cooperation with the Sexual Health Zurich Association.

Are you a specialist in psychiatry, committed and competent? Then we are looking for you!

Your tasks:

• You take on the psychiatric and psychotherapeutic assessment, counseling, and treatment of gay, queer, and trans people with complex issues with a lot of personal responsibility and scope for design.

• You work in a highly interdisciplinary team and actively contribute your professional perspective to the joint care.

• You delegate purposefully and coordinate treatment closely with the psychology team.

• You regularly participate in intervisions with the psychotherapists in the organization.

• You issue orders and cost approvals for our clients in close collaboration with the psychology team.

• You contribute to projects of the Checkpoint and help to further develop our offerings for the LGBTIQ+ community.

What you bring:

• Completed specialist training in psychiatry and psychotherapy (FMH).

• Knowledge of the life realities of queer people and proximity to the target group – whether through personal or professional experience – is desirable.

• Strong team player qualities combined with the ability to independently and responsibly handle tasks even on hectic days with a high level of quality awareness.

• Openness and appreciation for various life realities, sexual orientations, and gender identities.

• Good communication skills, resilience, and flexibility in dealing with a demanding and diverse client base.

• Enjoyment of direct client contact and working in an interdisciplinary, committed environment.

• Foreign language skills are an advantage.

What you can expect from us:

You deepen your expertise in addiction medicine and actively shape the collaboration between psychiatry, psychotherapy, internal medicine, and social work.

We offer you a regulated 45-hour week from Monday to Friday, without night or weekend shifts in the ward operation, as well as 6 weeks of vacation and attractive conditions with the pension fund.

We support you in further training and offer regular supervision and intervision.

Look forward to an inspiring, collegial working atmosphere in a pioneering company of Swiss addiction medicine and become part of a committed team that supports you and achieves great things together with you.

Apply in under 1 minute and become part of our team!

If you have questions about the position or would like to exchange ideas informally in advance, I am happy to be your personal contact throughout the application process, feel free to contact me by phone or email at any time.

For professional inquiries, you can directly contact Benjamin Hampel at the following email address: [email protected].

For inquiries:

Kerstin Kastenhofer
HR Specialist Recruiting & HR Projects
+41 58 360 50 00
[email protected]