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Klinikum Stuttgart

Senior Physician Institute for Hospital Hygiene

Original title: Oberarzt (m/w/d) Institut für Krankenhaushygiene

Klinikum Stuttgart
Stuttgart (Mitte, Bad Cannstatt), Baden-Württemberg201-500 employees
Apprenticeship
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  • Start Date

    On request

  • Sector

    Healthcare

  • Salary

    Competitive salary

Listing data as of October 21, 2026

About this Apprenticeship

Klinikum Stuttgart - Choose something big. With our three hospitals "Katharinenhospital", "Olgahospital" and "Krankenhaus Bad Cannstatt" we are the largest hospital in Baden-Württemberg. Over 9,500 employees care for patients on wards, in operating rooms and functional areas or work in administration, technology or IT to ensure smooth hospital operations. At two attractively located sites in Stuttgart, we offer you a meaningful and future-oriented workplace in over 55 clinics and institutes as a maximum care provider and academic teaching hospital of the University of Tübingen. Our motto: "Strong team. Strong hospital." Our institute is responsible for integrated hospital hygiene and infectiology and is the central contact for all questions of infection prevention, infection management and rational anti-infective therapy in the hospital. In addition to clinical advice and infectious disease co-management, a particular focus is on the continuous development of hygienic structures and processes as well as interdisciplinary cooperation with clinical and diagnostic areas.

What You'll Learn

Our institute is responsible for integrated hospital hygiene and infectiology and is the central contact for all questions of infection prevention, infection management and rational anti-infective therapy in the hospital. In addition to clinical advice and infectious disease co-management, a particular focus is on the continuous development of hygienic structures and processes as well as interdisciplinary cooperation with clinical and diagnostic areas. Your tasks: Medical participation and co-responsibility in hospital hygiene and infection prevention; Advice to clinical departments on complex infectiological issues; Participation in the detection, assessment and control of nosocomial infections and outbreak events; Conduct and further development of hygienic-microbiological rounds and inspections; Advice on multi-resistant pathogens, isolation and prevention measures; Participation in the creation, updating and implementation of hygiene plans, standards and standard operating procedures; Cooperation with microbiology, nursing service, quality management, occupational safety, medical technology and other relevant professional groups; Expert advice on construction, conversion and renovation measures from a hygienic and infectiological perspective; Participation in the development and implementation of strategies for infection prevention and antibiotic stewardship; Participation in training and further education events for medical and nursing staff; Participation in quality assurance and further development of the institute's structures; Participation in senior physician duties and organizational development of the area.

Requirements

You have one of the following qualifications: Prerequisite is either a specialist (m/f/d) in hygiene and environmental medicine, or a specialist (m/f/d) in internal medicine and infectiology with interest in acquiring the additional training in medical hygiene, or a specialist (m/f/d) in internal medicine with additional training in medical hygiene and additional training in infectiology. In addition, we would like: sound practical experience in hospital hygiene and/or clinical infectiology; pronounced interest in issues of infection prevention and patient safety; enjoyment of interdisciplinary cooperation and advising clinical teams; a high degree of personal responsibility, communication skills and organizational talent; willingness to actively shape the further development of hospital hygiene at the hospital; ideally experience in outbreak management, surveillance, antibiotic stewardship and quality management.

What We Offer

A structured onboarding concept and over 500 internal training and further education opportunities through our in-house academy. If required, we support new employees in finding modern and sustainable staff accommodation. Additional benefits such as corporate health management, various sports offers and good, affordable catering in our staff casinos and kiosks. Work where it really matters: meaningful, crisis-proof and future-relevant - a job at Klinikum Stuttgart. We offer our employees access to the "Corporate Benefits", "Wellhub" and "JobRad" platforms. We have received the "Beruf und Familie" audit certificate several times and actively promote the compatibility of family and career. We offer our employees modern working time and childcare concepts that suit their lifestyle. At the Mitte and Bad Cannstatt sites, we provide a certain number of places in our company daycare center. Remuneration according to TVöD or TV-Ärzte VKA appropriate to the position and professional group, as well as an employer-financed company pension scheme via the ZVK. All employees receive a 50% subsidy for the "DeutschlandTicket Job" with the SSB.

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