Senior Physician / Lead Physician for Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine 80-100%

The clinical service spectrum of the Institute for Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine (IFA) includes all anesthesia procedures for outpatient and inpatient operative as well as diagnostic interventions, including comprehensive pre- and postoperative care. Other central areas of responsibility are the treatment of acute and chronic pain, the trauma room care of critically ill patients, and the in-hospital resuscitation service. Furthermore, the Institute provides emergency physicians for preclinical ground- and air-based emergency care as well as the intensive care transfer service in close cooperation with Schutz & Rettung Zürich (SRZ) and the Schweizerische Rettungsflugwacht (REGA). Within the framework of highly specialized medicine, the USZ also holds service mandates for all transplantations and for the treatment of severely burned and polytrauma patients. The Institute is a training center of category A1 certified by the Schweizerische Institut für ärztliche Weiter- und Fortbildung (SIWF). The Universitätsspital Zürich is one of the largest hospitals in Switzerland. Our over 8'600 employees and around 700 trainees are committed daily to the well-being of our patients. Senior Physician / Lead Physician (w/m/d) for Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine 80-100% immediately or by arrangement Your main tasks Independent anesthesiological care of patients across all medical disciplines in operative, interventional, and diagnostic areas of basic care, maximum care, and highly specialized medicine, including the care of complex cardio- and vascular surgical as well as transplantation medicine interventions Participation in shift and on-call service Assumption of leadership, organizational, and coordination tasks Commitment to the continuous further development of the institute, in particular active co-design and further development of medical training, patient care, quality assurance, research, and teaching, including the design and implementation of new teaching and training formats Instruction, supervision, training, and mentoring of assistant and senior physicians Assumption of regulatory leadership responsibility in the field of translational research Your profile Specialist title in Anesthesiology (FMH or equivalent) Long-term professional and leadership experience in a university environment with universal operative applicability and flexibility Profound experience in cardiothoracic, vascular surgical, and transplantation medicine anesthesiology Habilitation or habilitation-equivalent achievement as well as proven experience in experimental and translational research, didactic skills Commitment and enthusiasm for the training and promotion of assistant physicians as well as the further development of medical training and university teaching Enjoyment of interprofessional and interdisciplinary cooperation - particularly in complex patient care Strong leadership and social competence as well as a high sense of responsibility High resilience, initiative, and a solution-oriented way of working Enjoyment of actively shaping change processes With your empathetic, integrative personality, you specifically promote team spirit, interprofessional cooperation, and strengthen the trust of patients Our benefits We offer you an outstanding, professionally demanding activity in a university environment of international top medicine. You will work in an institute with a wide clinical anesthesiological spectrum with direct access to highly specialized medicine - including, among others, transplantation medicine, burn medicine, polytrauma care, materno-fetal surgery, as well as cardiovascular medicine. As a university center, we combine clinical excellence with innovation, research, and interdisciplinary cooperation at the highest level. You will benefit from an academic environment with international networking, state-of-the-art infrastructure, and active co-design of future-oriented care concepts. We offer you targeted career development opportunities - clinical, scientific, and in leadership functions. You can actively help shape the further development of the field as well as take an active role in teaching and training. Last but not least, you will become part of a dedicated, interprofessional team characterized by high professional expertise, spirit of innovation, mutual appreciation, and open, collegial cooperation. Universitätsspital Zürich 8091 Zürich Senior Physician / Lead Physician (w/m/d) for Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine 80-100% The clinical service spectrum of the Institute for Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine (IFA) includes all anesthesia procedures for outpatient and inpatient operative as well as diagnostic interventions, including comprehensive pre- and postoperative care. Other central areas of responsibility are the treatment of acute and chronic pain, the trauma room care of critically ill patients, and the in-hospital resuscitation service. Furthermore, the Institute provides emergency physicians for preclinical ground- and air-based emergency care as well as the intensive care transfer service in close cooperation with Schutz & Rettung Zürich (SRZ) and the Schweizerische Rettungsflugwacht (REGA). Within the framework of highly specialized medicine, the USZ also holds service mandates for all transplantations and for the treatment of severely burned and polytrauma patients. The Institute is a training center certified by the Schweizerische Institut für ärztliche Weiter- und Fortbildung (SIWF)