Assistant or assistant physician in the community medicine and care unit (UMSCOM) – 80%

In your capacity as an assistant or assistant physician of the community medicine and care unit (UMSCOM), you assist the assistant physician responsible for the unit in the implementation and supervision of clinical, academic, and administrative activities. You participate in the smooth running of the unit by helping to coordinate and by collaborating with the multidisciplinary team, composed of physicians, social workers, nurses, and secretaries. You are concerned with offering a dynamic and caring working environment by valuing and developing the skills of your team. Through your leadership, you have the ability to unite your team around common goals and to involve them in development, research, and institutional projects. You contribute to the improvement of the quality of services of the UMSCOM, particularly regarding the care of the patient population, through personal proposals and initiatives validated by the management. You carry an ambition of academicization of your position and actively contribute to scientific research in the field of health for disadvantaged persons. You lead study projects, publish, and develop the academic expertise of your unit. You participate in pre- and postgraduate teaching, and collaborate closely with the management to design and provide quality training. Finally, as a specialist in the care of precarious patients, you represent the unit (UMSCOM), the service (SMPR), and the department (DMCPR) both within the HUG and towards any external interlocutor. You hold a federal medical diploma (or a title deemed equivalent recognized by the Commission des professions médicales of the Office fédéral de la santé publique (MEBEKO)), a doctoral thesis in medicine (MD) or are in the process of obtaining one, a specialty title in general internal medicine, as well as training in public health. You possess the right of practice allowing you to practice in the canton of Geneva. You justify several years of experience in community health, a contribution to teaching, and scientific research activities. You have experience in the field of managing the care system for precarious patients within the HUG. You can also justify successful experience in supervision or team management. For non-French speaking persons, a C1 level of French in spoken and written tests is required. Start date: 01.11.2026 Number of positions: 1 Activity rate: 80% Function class: 26 or according to profile Contract: CDI Application deadline: 31.08.2026 Inquiries: Prof. I. Guessous, chief physician of the primary care medicine service, Prof. Y. Jackson, physician responsible for UMSCOM 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 advertisement is addressed indistinctly to women and men. Wishing to engage in 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. With more than 13,000 employees representing 160 professions, the Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève are a reference institution at the national and international level. To learn more about our institution, take a few minutes to consult our 2025 retrospective by clicking here. The Département de médecine communautaire et de premier recours (DMCPR) has the societal mission to allow access to quality care for all through local medicine, to ensure the management of minor medical and surgical emergencies, to promote prevention among citizens, to provide medical knowledge to judicial investigations, and to promote the health of travelers. The service de médecine de premier recours (SMPR) ensures the outpatient care of adult patients belonging to primary care medicine. This service also offers outpatient emergency medicine services to the population. As part of the general interest missions of the HUG, it offers access to care for populations disadvantaged by their age, social, economic, or legal status (asylum seekers, those hit by non-admission, undocumented persons, prisoners), or their lifestyle; if necessary, the service de médecine de premier recours also ensures the continuity of their care.