Director of Nursing at the Department of Interdisciplinary Centres (13407-IN-100-2026)

About the job

Nursing

Director of Nursing at the Department of Interdisciplinary Centres

Within the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), the Department of Interdisciplinary Centres (DCI) has the primary mission of providing specialised acute medical services to patients and other clinical services of the CHUV, with a transversal vision. The DCI is composed of seven services: the emergency department, adult intensive care, anaesthesia, the endoscopy centre, the main operating theatre, the emergency medical call centre (CASU 144) and the pharmacy, bringing together more than 1,500 staff members.

The Nursing Directorate and the DCI Directorate are advertising the position of

Department Director of Nursing

Context

In this key role, as a member of the Department Directorate, you will ensure the leadership of the entire nursing sector, supported by a team of managers responsible for more than 880 nursing professionals. You will encourage the development of the services that make up the department and ensure the stability of their missions.

Do you have the ambition to advance patient care, to deploy within your department the strategic plan’s axes and the CHUV’s vision, to strengthen a safe, innovative and demanding nursing organisation, and to contribute to efficient resource management within a dynamic leadership?

Do you recognise yourself in the sought profile? Are you ready to take on this exciting challenge? Then you are the person we want to meet!

Mission

• Contribute to the strategic and budgetary management of the department in partnership with other members of the leadership
• Guarantee the services and quality of care within the framework of the department’s development project and the CHUV’s nursing policy, respecting budgetary targets
• Manage the development of care that is both reliable and innovative for patients and their relatives
• Embody and promote a participative, respectful and empowering managerial culture while ensuring the application of institutional directives
• Actively participate, within the CHUV Nursing Directorate College, in the promotion of nursing, reflections on development, identification and preparation of successors, training and research.

Profile

• Master’s degree in nursing sciences and diploma in one of the department’s clinical specialisations
• Advanced training in healthcare management
• Proven clinical experience in one of the department’s specialisation areas
• Confirmed experience in management, team leadership and large-scale management of a care structure within a major hospital centre
• Successful experience in project management and change support
• Ability to communicate, influence, inspire a vision and values, to unite and sustainably mobilise staff
• Capacity to delegate, manage conflicts and make sound decisions
• Tenacity, perseverance, rigour and organisation
• Interest in the development of nursing research as well as in "Evidence Based Nursing"
• Ability to collaborate interprofessionally and foster synergies between services
• Ability to periodically assume the nursing leadership on-call duty for the entire CHUV (excluding psychiatry)

We offer

Becoming a member of the Lausanne University Hospital team means benefiting from:

• First-rate social benefits, 20 days paternity leave and 4 months maternity leave (with the possibility of an additional month of breastfeeding leave)
• Regular salary progression adapted to responsibilities
• A 13th month salary and 25 days of annual leave
• A right to a minimum of three training days per year, with access to a varied offer within the CHUV Training Centre and partner training centres of the Canton of Vaud
• Facilitated access to one of the 500 furnished apartments offered in the surrounding neighbourhoods for people relocating to Switzerland from abroad
• Social, cultural and economic benefits offered to members of the H-Oxygène association
• Benefits offered within the mobility plan (discounts on public transport subscriptions, promotion of "Mobility" vehicles and discounts on the purchase of electric bicycles)
• Quality staff restaurants in each hospital building with preferential rates.

Contact and application submission

Contact for information about the position: Vincent Adatte, Acting Director of Nursing at CHUV, at 079 556 53 37.

As all our applications are processed electronically, we kindly ask you to apply exclusively online by clicking the APPLY button at the bottom of the advertisement.

If you have difficulty applying, you can consult our procedure on how to apply online. If for technical reasons you are unable to apply online, we invite you to contact our Recruitment Unit, which will assist you in your process, either by email at e.recrutement@chuv.ch or by phone at 021 314 85 70.

As part of the recruitment process for this position, if hired, you will be required to provide an original criminal record extract. You will also be asked to present your original diplomas and an identity document.

CHUV applies the highest quality standards in its recruitment processes. Furthermore, committed to promoting diversity among our staff, we are attentive to different life paths and make every effort to ensure equal treatment and avoid any discrimination. We look forward to receiving your application.

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