Physician not in training to become a Psychiatrist

As a graduated general practitioner, do you want to gain experience within psychiatry and are you that professional physician who wants to develop themselves and is flexible?
The general tasks will be:

• Conducting psychiatric anamnesis;

• Performing psychiatric and physical examinations;

• Diagnosing;

• Formulating treatment plans;

• Treating patients;

• Guiding patients and/or family within the disease process;

• Participating in clinical discussions, patient discussions, and work meetings;

• Participating in the duty roster including on-call services in the evening, night, and weekend.

The Brain+Nerve Center (HZC) is a collaboration of ten specialties within the MUMC+ in which the clinical and operational approaches are jointly coordinated and implemented. The HZC focuses on patients with complex conditions related to the brain and/or nervous system, where the conditions often consist of multiple types of complaints and are characterized by complexity and comorbidity. Because the complaints are investigated by specialists from various medical fields, we can perform efficient diagnostics and treatments, also for complex, tertiary care questions. Furthermore, within the HZC, the various specialties work closely together in the fields of scientific research, education, and training, whereby innovations and fundamental knowledge are continuously generated and further developed.

At the HZC, specialists from the following medical fields work together:

• Psychiatry

• Medical Psychology

• Neurology

• Neurosurgery

• Clinical Neurophysiology

• ENT

• Audiology

The Psychiatry department leads the Psychiatry University Clinic (PUK) of the MUMC+. Within it, the department focuses on academic psychiatric and hospital psychiatric care within 5 care pathways, being 1) Cognition 2) Psychosomatics, 3) Mood, 4) Child, Youth & Adolescents and 5) Eating disorders.

The care processes take place across the settings of outpatient clinic, day treatment, and clinic within the PUK, and also via psychiatric consultation in other departments in the MUMC+. Together with the Medical Psychology department and the psychiatric nursing ward, the department provides Mental Health Care (GGZ) within the MUMC+. The staff members of the psychiatry department are directly connected to the Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology at Maastricht University. The department holds a unique position in the region, where, together with network partners, the academization of psychiatry and mental health care in care, research, and training is shaped in South-East Netherlands. An important part of the department in this regard concerns the independent (university) training to become a psychiatrist within the MUMC+, together with network partners.

Together with the department within UM and Mondriaan, the MUMC+ has developed a network of active care programs in regional mental health care over the past 10 years, with much attention to transmuralization, continuous care evaluation, and a proper balance between scientific evidence and the unique experiences of individual patients. The region has a national exemplary function in the field of psychosis care, neuropsychiatry (also in the context of gerontopsychiatry), and hospital psychiatry (top-referral and nationally unique MedPsych units for adults and children).

The psychiatrists attach importance to cultivating and maintaining a collegial atmosphere and a safe training climate. On Friday afternoons, there is a local educational program that can be participated in. Maastricht University is one of the few Dutch Universities with a KNAW-recognized top psychiatric research program.

You have successfully completed your medical studies, possess a recognized general practitioner diploma in the Netherlands, and are BIG-registered. Furthermore, you possess good social and interpersonal skills. You enjoy working in a multidisciplinary team.
Recently graduated physicians or lateral entrants are very welcome to apply.

There is also the possibility to subsequently apply for a position as an AIOS psychiatry.

For this position, it applies that you must be able to hand over a Certificate of Conduct (VOG) before the start of employment.

To start successfully in this role, it is important that you have a good command of the Dutch language (minimum B2 level) due to contact with, among others, patients and colleagues. Additionally, it is a condition that you are permitted to work in the Netherlands (EU/EEA nationality or a valid work permit).

Depending on education and experience, the salary is at least € 4,642.- and at most € 6,393.- gross per month for a full-time appointment (46 hours per week). This salary is exclusive of irregularity allowances, holiday allowance, and an end-of-year bonus of 8.3% of your gross annual salary.

This concerns a temporary employment contract for a duration of 12 months for an average of 27 to 46 hours per week in accordance with article 2.4.2 of the Cao umc.

It is expected that you perform irregularity shifts during evening, night, and weekend hours and public holidays.

At Maastricht UMC+, we ensure that you have everything to make your contribution to ultimate care. The right employment conditions belong with that. Read here what we offer you.

For more information about the position or the training and career opportunities, you may contact prof. dr. A. Leentjens (trainer) reachable at 043-387 7443 or via opleiding.psychiatrie@mumc.nl. Shadowing for a day? That is also a possibility!

For information about the application procedure, follow this link. General information about employment conditions and working at Maastricht UMC+ can be found here. Unable to find the answer to your question? Then contact the Recruitment team.

Have you become enthusiastic? Feel free to apply—as long as the vacancy is open, we continue to process responses.

We recruit our candidates ourselves and do not work with external agencies for this vacancy.