Job Opportunities

Join us in shaping the new Medical School OWL at Bielefeld University:
Future-oriented, interprofessional, and strong in research and teaching

The Medical School OWL at Bielefeld University intends to fill at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Campus Bielefeld-Bethel (CBB) a

Professorship for Geriatric Psychiatry (W2 TT W3 or W3)

at the earliest possible date. This is associated with the position as Senior Physician of the Geriatric Psychiatry devision.

At Bielefeld University, an innovative Medical School with an interdisciplinary individual and population medicine orientation and the University Medical Center OWL (UMC OWL), with the Klinikum Bielefeld, Evangelisches Klinikum Bethel (EvKB), and Klinikum Lippe as holders, are established. We are looking for personalities who want to seize the development situation and its challenges as a chance and actively participate in research, teaching, patient care, and organization. We offer an exciting environment that opens up a wide range of opportunities. You will be significantly involved in the further planning and implementation of the model study program in human medicine (according to ÄApprO), as well as in implementing the "clinician" and "advanced clinician scientist" programs, and you will have the opportunity to apply innovative concepts in teaching. At the same time, you will take on a significant role in developing an interconnected, inter/nationally competitive research profile "Medicine for people with disabilities and chronic diseases".
For more information, please visit https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/medizin/forschung/profil/.

Against the background of the current demographic situation and the developments to be expected in the next decades, geriatrics plays a central role in the prevention, rehabilitation and care of older people with acute and chronic diseases as well as multiple impairments, also within the framework of the research profile of the Medical School OWL.
In close cooperation with the geriatric specialist clinics at the UMC OWL, a university medical center-wide concept for health care research in the field of health and medicine of ageing will be developed and implemented. The concept should take into account the specifics of geriatric medical care for patients in rural (district of Lippe) and urban (city of Bielefeld) structures and should address cross-sectoral care structures. In the future, this topic will be dealt with jointly, with the individual hospitals establishing their own focus of research that can be linked to each other.

In addition, close networking and cooperation with the medical community in private practice and with representatives of the various health care professions in the region are expected, as well as cooperation with representatives of other faculties, including the School of Public Health.

The call aims at personalities in an early career stage with an already promising profile (W2 TT W3) or personalities with an already established national and international profile (W3) who can represent the field of expertise in research, teaching, and patient care in its entirety.

The prerequisites are:

• specialist qualification in psychiatry and psychotherapy
• additional designation in geriatrics
• relevant doctorate, and additionally scientific achievements according to § 36 paras. 1; no. 4 HG NRW
• promisingly (W2 TT W3) or high-ranking (W3) scientific achievements reflected in corresponding publications and third-party funding
• broad (W2 TT W3) or extensive (W3) clinical experience as well as leadership experience in the field of expertise
• broad (W2 TT W3) or extensive (W3) experience in planning, management, implementation and evaluation of clinical and interventional health care studies
• experience in cooperation with physicians and psychologists/ psychotherapists working in clinical and private practice in the neuroscientific and psychiatric-psychosomatic specialties
• connectivity to the research profile of the Medical School OWL
• extensive teaching experience and experience with innovative teaching formats in the subject to be represented
• experience and active involvement in the equality-oriented promotion of young scientists

Desirable:

• specialist qualification in neurology
• joint certificate in geriatric psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatics from the DGPPN and DGGPP
• experience in non-pharmacological delirium prevention and therapy

As the holder of this position, you will head the Geriatric Psychiatry devision at the Campus Bielefeld-Bethel (CBB) of the UMC OWL, which is to be expanded and developed. This devision is a growing part of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the EvKB, currently provides 52 inpatients and 16 semi-inpatients treatment places and also includes the geriatric psychiatry area of the outpatient institute. In addition, a large interdisciplinary delirium prevention project is being managed cooperatively from the devision.

We expect the expansion of the very close cooperation with the Departments of Neuromedicine, for People with Neurodevelopmental Disorders and, in particular, for Geriatrics at EvKB, with the Mara hospital as well as with Klinikum Bielefeld and Klinikum Lippe. You will be involved in the development and operation of a university MR-Imaging Core Facility.

Accordingly, we are looking for a personality with leadership experience and expertise in the entire field and excellent communication and coordination skills.

As the holder of this position, you should also be willing to address gender and diversity-related issues in order to improve health care practice.

The EvKB would like to encourage female candidates, in particular, to apply for this position. Through a family-conscious personnel policy, EvKB promotes a viable balance between personal lifestyle and career. Competent support is provided in arranging childcare places.

For the appeals applies:

A private-law employment contract with the University is envisaged for the performance of the duties of the professorship. The requirements for employment follow § 36 HG.
The tasks within patient care, including the right to liquidation, will be regulated via a contract with the EvKB.

The W2 tenure variant is initially limited to five years; after appointment, a target agreement is formulated. If the evaluation is positive in the final year, the appointment is converted into a permanent W3 professorship. Tenure evaluations are regulated in the statute for quality assurance of professorships with tenure track (TT). Tenure-track professorships are firmly established at Bielefeld University as an equal tenure option. Tenure-track professors are offered a target-group- specific personnel development program that provides support during the arrival phase and in preparation for the tenure evaluation.

Applications from suitable persons with severe disabilities and persons with disabilities of equal status are expressly encouraged.

Bielefeld University has received several awards for its successes within equality and is certified as a family-friendly university. The university pursues a committed equal opportunities policy concerning the appointment of professorships, among other things, and would expressly like to invite qualified female applicants to apply. Applications are treated in concert with the State Equality Act. Family times will be considered in the context of the selection decision.

The Medical School OWL and the EvKB consider equality between women and men to be one main task, and the future jobholder will be involved in its implementation.
Bielefeld University supports dual-career constellations to establish a common centre of life and work.

Please submit your application by 30/01/2025 via the online appointment portal of Bielefeld University:

https://berufungen.uni-bielefeld.de/

In addition to the usual application documents and information, we ask you to submit each a 2- page teaching and research concept paper and a concept concerning patient care. These concept papers should integrate gender- and diversity-specific content relevant to the advertised professorship. We expect a brief description of your previous and planned gender equality activities, besides, particularly for the promotion of young female scientists and the compatibility of career and family.

Contact:

Bielefeld University
Medical School OWL
The Dean Prof. Dr. med. Claudia Hornberg, Dipl.-Biol., Dipl.-Ökol.
PO Box 10 01 31
33501 Bielefeld
Phone +49 (0) 521/106-67467 (secretariat Stephanie Heuer)
dekanin.medizin@uni-bielefeld.de

and additionally

Evangelisches Klinikum Bethel
Scientific Director of the v. Bodelschwinghsche Stiftungen Bethel
Prof. Dr. med. Fritz Mertzlufft
Telefon +49 (0) 521/77279010 (secretariat Monika Wohlfahrt)
fritz.mertzlufft@evkb.de

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