Assistant or Assistant Physician in the cardio-pediatric unit - 100%

In your capacity as an assistant or assistant physician in the Cardio-Pediatrics Unit, you will contribute to the supervision of activities, and the training of resident doctors and senior residents.

You collaborate on clinical activities with the heads of department and assistant physicians.

You ensure the coordination of practical activities, clinical, therapeutic or surgical interventions of the patients entrusted to you. You participate in the on-call and standby system.

Demonstrating a confirmed interest in teaching, you participate in pre/post-graduate and continuing education within the unit.

Of a dynamic, flexible and committed nature, you develop interdisciplinary clinical projects. You participate in, deploy and ensure research within the unit.

You are a person recognized for your leadership and leverage your excellent organizational, relational and communication skills, in a multidisciplinary team and with the people being cared for and their family.

You hold a federal medical diploma, a specialist title in pediatrics and advanced training in pediatric cardiology or have training deemed equivalent by the Commission des professions médicales of the Office fédéral de la santé publique (MEBEKO).

You hold a doctoral thesis and possess the right of practice allowing you to practice in the canton of Geneva or are able to obtain it before taking up your duties.

You have experience in pediatric cardiology and have already worked as a senior resident or senior physician in a hospital.

You are strong with experience as a senior resident in a pediatric cardiology unit as well as in team management and management.

You have experience in pre and post-graduate teaching and clinical research.

For non-French speaking persons, a C1 level in French for both spoken and written tests is required.

You can work both during daytime hours, and during night, weekend and holiday hours. You also participate in on-call and standby duties.

• Start date: 01.08.2027
• Number of positions: 1
• Activity rate: 100%
• Function class: 26
• Contract: CDI
• Application deadline: 26.11.2026
• Request for information: Dre J. Wacker Bou Puigdefabregas, assistant physician aggregate unit manager, Julie.Wacker@hug.ch (mailto:Julie.Wacker@hug.ch)

Your application file must include a letter demonstrating your motivation, your curriculum vitae according to faculty standards, copies of the diplomas and certificates required for the position and the last 2 work certificates.

This advertisement is addressed to women and men alike.

Wishing to commit to the fight against unemployment, the HUG encourage applications coming from the Office cantonal de l’emploi.

Only applications submitted via the recruitment platform are taken into account. Paper and email applications will not be processed.

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The position is attached to the Département de la femme, de l'enfant et de l'adolescent whose mission is to offer quality care adapted to the needs of women at each stage of their lives and to the health problems faced by newborns, children and adolescents from their birth until the age of 18 years.

For many years, the département de la femme, de l'enfant et de l'adolescent has continuously developed cutting-edge services and competence centers in several medical specialties.

The pediatric specialties service ensures the care of hospitalized or outpatient patients for the following specialties: pediatric allergology, pediatric cardiology, pediatric gastroenterology, pediatric nephrology and metabolism, pediatric pulmonology, neuropediatrics, exercise medicine and obesity. It works towards the development of cutting-edge services and specialty competence centers.

The Cardio-Pediatrics Unit (https://www.hug.ch/enfants-ados/specialites-medicales-chirurgicales/cardiologie-pediatrique) manages children from the fetal period (in collaboration with obstetrics) to adulthood. The Pediatric Cardiology Unit and congenital cardiac surgery have received the unrestricted qualification for highly specialized medicine (MHS).

Performing more than 2'000 consultations per year, the specialists are able to perform all cutting-edge examinations, such as electrocardiograms (ECG), Holters, transthoracic, transesophageal and vascular echocardiographies, stress tests, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and cardiac catheterization.

More than 200 cardiac operations are performed each year at the Hôpital des Enfants. Pediatric cardiologists supervise their care, from their admission, during the stay in intensive care, then on the pediatric ward in collaboration with doctors from other departments.