Description
With more than 13,000 employees representing 160 professions, the Geneva University Hospitals are a reference institution at both national and international levels. To learn more about our institution, take a few minutes to view our 2025 retrospective by clicking here.
The Department of Community and Primary Care Medicine (DMCPR) has the societal mission to provide access to quality healthcare for all through local medicine, to ensure the management of minor medical and surgical emergencies, to promote prevention among citizens, to provide medical knowledge for judicial investigations, and to promote the health of travellers.
The Prison Medicine Service offers quality care to detainees in the prisons of the Republic and Canton of Geneva while applying medical law and professional ethics. It develops prevention and health promotion actions within the prison environment.
You will join an outpatient prison unit (category A according to ISFM) and, as part of a multidisciplinary team, provide psychological and psychotherapeutic follow-up for adolescents admitted to La Clairière.
This position grants access to the postgraduate training in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy of the OMP and to all services provided within this training framework.
The Prison Medicine Service also offers active support in research and teaching.
In line with your training path to obtain your title in psychiatry and psychotherapy, you will join a care unit of the department and provide outpatient psychiatric and psychotherapeutic follow-up for adolescents at La Clairière as part of a multidisciplinary team.
Alongside your activity, you will benefit from a high-quality, structured clinical postgraduate training according to FMH requirements for obtaining the specialist title in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy.
You may also participate in ongoing research activities within the services. Support is also available for undertaking a doctoral thesis.
Qualifications
You hold a federal medical diploma or have training deemed equivalent by the Medical Professions Commission of the Federal Office of Public Health (MEBEKO).
Previous experience in psychiatry and/or somatic medicine is an asset.
For non-French speakers, a C1 level in spoken and written French is required.
We offer
An integrated quality training meeting the requirements of the Swiss Medical Association (FMH), including both practical training through clinical activity and theoretical training in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy.
The opportunity to participate in a noble and socially important mission; involvement in exciting and innovative activities within an academic setting; integration into a highly qualified multidisciplinary team where interdisciplinarity is a guarantee of quality; supervision and support from your hierarchy.
In addition to practical and theoretical training, participation in psychotherapy supervisions and congresses is included. The department covers the entire training cost.
Additional Information
The fulfilment of our employees in their mission is an important value for us. Therefore, a personalised development and career path and several prospects for advancement within the institution are assured.
Your initial commitment is fixed-term and will be renewed as a permanent contract from the second year of activity depending on the department's needs and the quality of your performance.
- Information from the Swiss Medical Association (FMH) regarding the conditions for obtaining the specialist title in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy https://www.siwf.ch/fr/formation-postgraduee/titres-specialiste-formations/psychiatrie-et-psychoth-enfant.cfm
- Postgraduate training provided by the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Service: https://www.hug.ch/enfants-ados/devenir-psychiatre-pour-enfants-adolescents
- Working conditions and procedures to follow (including diploma recognition): https://www.hug.ch/emploi
- Start date: 01.11.2026
- Number of positions: 1
- Work rate: 100%
- Job grade: 20
- Contract: 12-month fixed-term, renewable as permanent
- Application deadline: 24.07.2026
- Contact for information: Dr P. Heller, Assistant Physician, Head of the Prison Psychiatry Unit, patrick.heller@hug.ch
Your application must include a motivation letter, your curriculum vitae, copies of diplomas and certificates required for the position, and the last two work certificates.
This announcement is addressed equally to women and men.
Committed to fighting 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.