Assistant Physician in the Cardio-Pediatric Unit - 100%

Company Description ##

With more than 13,000 employees representing 160 professions, the Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève are a reference institution at national and international levels. To learn more about our institution, take a few minutes to discover the highlights of the year 2025 by clicking here.

The position is attached to the Department of Women, Children, and Adolescents, 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 adolescents from birth until the age of 18.

For many years, the Department of Women, Children, and Adolescents has continuously developed cutting-edge services and centers of expertise in several medical specialties.

The Pediatric Specialties Service ensures the care of inpatients or outpatients for the following specialties: pediatric allergology, pediatric cardiology, pediatric gastroenterology, pediatric nephrology and metabolism, pediatric pulmonology, neuropediatrics, exercise and obesity medicine. It works towards the development of cutting-edge services and specialty competence centers.

The Cardio-Pediatric Unit provides care for 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 admission, during their stay in intensive care, and then on the pediatric ward in collaboration with doctors from other services.

Job Description ##

In your capacity as an assistant physician in the Cardio-Pediatric Unit, you contribute to the supervision of activity, and the supervision of resident doctors and senior registrars.

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

You ensure the coordination of practical activities, the 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 make use of your excellent organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills, in multidisciplinary teams and with the patients and their families.

Qualifications ##

You hold a federal medical diploma, a specialist title in pediatrics, and advanced training in pediatric cardiology, or you 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 registrar or consultant in a hospital.

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

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

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

Additional Information ##

You can work both during daytime hours and 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 agrégée unit head, [email protected]

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 2 most recent 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 will be considered. Paper and email applications will not be processed.