Head of Nursing and Care

Your heart beats for older people and you want to actively shape nursing quality? With us, you combine professional responsibility with appreciative leadership and contribute to ensuring that our guests can live independently and safely.

For our Residence Horgen, we are looking for a

Head of Nursing and Care

starting 1 December 2026 or by arrangement

The Tertianum Residence Horgen is located between Zimmerberg and Lake Zurich. We combine living in apartments with in-house Spitex as well as nursing and care in the nursing care area. The individual needs and quality of life of our guests are at the centre.

Your Tasks

- Responsibility for nursing quality and implementation of the service mandate as well as management and further development of nursing and care processes.

- Further development of the nursing care area and coordination of processes with the in-house Spitex to ensure our guests are well supported when care needs change.

- Personnel and professional leadership of the subordinate employees; promotion of a binding, appreciative collaboration.

- Recruitment, structured induction and further development of employees in cooperation with management and HR.

- Ensuring needs-based personnel and deployment planning taking into account qualifications and available resources.

- Ensuring complete nursing documentation in CareCoach as well as correct nursing needs assessment and service recording.

- Monitoring quality indicators, personnel deployment and budget; deriving appropriate measures and contributing to needs-based occupancy in coordination with administration and management.

- Coordination of admissions, transfers and discharges in cooperation with triage, in-house Spitex and involved specialists.

- Trustful cooperation with guests, relatives, doctors, hospitals and other partners; support in demanding conversations.

- Implementation and review of nursing, hygiene and safety standards as well as promotion of an open learning and error culture.

- Close cooperation with management and the departments of administration, housekeeping, gastronomy and technical service.

Your Profile

- Completed training as a certified nurse HF/FH/DN II or an equivalent qualification recognised by the SRK.

- Professional and leadership experience in long-term care; experience in outpatient care and dealing with people with dementia is an advantage.

- At least one to two years of experience as head of nursing and care or at least three to four years of leadership experience as group or team leader.

- Completed leadership training or willingness to undertake appropriate further training.

- Confidence in managing the nursing process, quality assurance and handling electronic nursing documentation.

- Organisational strength, business understanding and an independent, solution-oriented working style.

- An empathetic and decisive leadership personality with team spirit, warmth and humour.

- Very good German skills in spoken and written form as well as clear, target-group appropriate communication.

Why Tertianum

A regional network with other heads of nursing and care offers you professional exchange and mutual support. Tertianum also opens up development opportunities in specialist and leadership careers.

For the compatibility of work and private life and your personal development, we offer various benefits:

- Internal and external training opportunities

- Additional day off in the birthday month

- Daily lunch for CHF 10

- Discounted mobile and internet subscriptions with Sunrise

- Discounts on selected supplementary health insurance

- SBB half-fare travelcard

- Various fleet discounts

Further benefits can be found on our website.

Your Application

Would you like to contribute your experience and help shape nursing and care in our residence? We look forward to receiving your complete online application. Click on "Apply now" and submit your documents via our application tool.

If you have any questions, Linda Qazimi, Managing Director, is happy to assist you at 043 244 16 10 or linda.qazimi@tertianum.ch.