Mobile and versatile secretary for the children's hospital - 100%

• 29 August 2026
• 100%
• Temporary
• Genève

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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 every stage of their lives, and to the health problems faced by newborns, children, and female and male adolescents from birth until the age of 16. It works towards the development of cutting-edge services and specialized competence centers.

It notably integrates the services of general pediatrics, pediatric specialties, pediatric surgery, development and growth, pediatric and neonatal intensive care, and pediatric emergencies.

Mobile and versatile secretary for the children's hospital - 100%

As part of your function, you will carry out replacement missions in various secretariats attached to Pediatrics (children's hospital), for short to medium durations, and must therefore be able to adapt quickly to changes. The major challenge of this position being the diversity of the activity and the short duration of the missions, you must therefore possess an excellent capacity for learning, analysis, and listening to successfully carry out your mission.

Thanks to your interpersonal skills, you will welcome, inform, and direct female and male patients, as well as their companions appearing in the service, and you will manage the telephone calls you receive.

You will organize consultations by managing the electronic agenda of the doctors and preparing patient files. After consultations, you will ensure the autonomous and rapid typing of medical reports. If necessary, you will schedule complementary medical examinations.

While responding to various requests, you will successfully and autonomously carry out the administrative activities related to your function, including, among others, the follow-up of patient files, the management of mail and electronic messaging, the management of holiday schedules, and the organization of medical staff congresses.

You will demonstrate proactivity in performing logistical tasks arising from the life of a secretariat such as orders, fee notes, and archiving.

Within the team, you will develop a close link with your medical secretary colleagues and ensure continuity of service during absences. And more generally, your sense of service makes you an agile person ready to put your versatility at the service of the institution to work in different services according to needs.

Qualifications

You hold a CFC as a commercial employee and a diploma as a medical secretary, or any training deemed equivalent.

You have several years of experience in a medical secretariat, ideally in a similar position.

You have perfect mastery of French, both spoken and written, and a proven writing capacity. Medical terminology is easily understandable to you. Knowledge of English is an asset.

You possess the ECDL Advanced certification including Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook and/or Web and you have very good knowledge of the software in use at the HUG (DPA, DPI, OPALE, GRECO, Winscribe and Requête Labo).

Thanks to your good team spirit, you are able to work in a shared office with several secretaries.

While having a good sense of organization and priorities, you are an autonomous, rigorous, and precise person in the tasks entrusted to you.

You also possess the tools allowing you to deal with unforeseen events and thus easily manage stress situations.

Finally, you demonstrate a keen sense of confidentiality.

Additional information

• Start date: 01.11.2026
• Number of positions: 1
• Activity rate: 100%
• Function class: 12
• Contract: CDD of 12 months
• Application deadline: 14.09.2026
• Request for information: Mme V.Lopez Sanchez, head of secretariats of the children's hospital, Write an email
• Request for job description: M. C. Clerc, deputy HR, Write an email

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

This announcement 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.