Working in Switzerland

[Judith Mollet]

You have to have your qualifications approved by the swiss physio society; it used to be done by the red cross I think but has changed since I did it. They compare hours done etc during undergraduate courses. The old physio diploma years ago was enough, I haven't met anyone recently "new" here. There are basically enough physios in switzerland now but it may be possible to get jobs in big institutions/ hospitals. They may also have "contingents" for work permits that you need to work in switzerland. If you already know where you want to be try directly writing to hospitals /clinics in the area. Years ago one could get away with basic french on the french side and basic german on the german side and improve as fast as possible. I doubt if that approach would work anymore. Without language you can't treat patients! You also can't understand team meetings and generally whats going on. Although some people speak english the caseloads in switzerland in most hospitals include turkish, albanian, ex jugoslavian, spanish, portuguese, italian patients. After a year here you'd just be getting into the language nicely. Shame to go then! I've worked in all sorts of different places in german speaking switzerland and am now selfemployed. Get in touch with me if you want any more information.

[debbskaz]

Hi,
sorry I noticed it has been a while since this post but I am hoping you might be able to help me.
Are you still in Switzerland? I want to work in Switzerland but am not sure how likely it is for me to find a job/
I am German and have an english physio degree plus 1 years of NHS work experiance.

It would be great to hear from you!

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Hi,
sorry I noticed it has been a while since this post but I am hoping you might be able to help me.
Are you still in Switzerland? I want to work in Switzerland but am not sure how likely it is for me to find a job/
I am German and have an english physio degree plus 1 years of NHS work experiance.

It would be great to hear from you!

[Judith Mollet]

Hi there. Yes I'm still here and living near Basel. The physio market here is possibly quite saturated and newly qualified swiss physios have problems with their first jobs, as far as I've heard. In privat practise you need at least a years experience if not more before the practise can employ you. All physio course here are also degrees now and I'm not sure how the degrees compare. My old English diploma course was fine many years ago and got SRK acceptance.. (Swiss Red Cross do it, or did it) We have loads of German physios here and if you would still live in Germany while working here in a hospital or rehab near the border it might be easier as a "Grenzgänger" How about contacting the swiss physio verband after looking at the website: physiothrapie, table de massage, matriels pour physiothrapeute, matriels mdical and asking for current information? Here it's still very "hands on" and although I'm no longer in contact with many NHS physios I think it's probably quite good working here compared to England. At the moment! bye the way the translation blurb if still there happened without my doing and I can't get rid of it !