Care Assistants in Community Health at the Department of Medicine

About the job

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Care Assistants in Community Health at the Department of Medicine

The Department of Medicine is looking for care assistants in community health from 60% to 100% for various services. Starting date: as soon as possible.

Context

The Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) is one of the 5 Swiss university hospitals. Thanks to its collaboration with the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne and EPFL, the CHUV plays a leading role in medical care, medical research, and education.

Our Department of Medicine is a pillar of CHUV's activity and has solid expertise in managing patients with multiple and complex conditions.

Its mission is to care for patients with the best medical, nursing, medico-technical, and administrative skills during their stay.

The Department of Medicine consists of:

• More than 1,600 employees
• 550 full-time equivalent nursing staff
• 13 specialties, including 2 centers (sleep center and obesity center)

Mission

• You collaborate closely in patient care within a multidisciplinary team and with the nursing team
• You provide varied, comprehensive, and individualized care under the delegation of a nurse and responsibly and autonomously support patients in aspects of daily living activities
• You deliver medico-technical care under the delegation of the nurse
• You perform administrative and logistical tasks related to patient care.

Profile

• You hold a Federal VET Diploma (CFC) as a care assistant in community health, mandatory
• You are a dynamic, committed, motivated person with a sense of responsibility
• You have knowledge of institutional software, an asset
• You demonstrate excellent mastery of the French language, both oral and written (level C1)

We offer

As a care assistant, you will have access to various training courses, such as:

• Daily living activities: a common goal in adult hospital settings
• Chronic and acute pain - observations and care
• Patient medical equipment - care and monitoring
• Mental disability - care and communication
• Skin integrity and wounds - analysis of concrete situations
• Medications - from prescription to administration
• Patient nutrition - needs, care, and monitoring
• Prevention and management of violence – nursing staff
• Wounds - care and monitoring – care assistants
• Chaplaincy - observation days in spiritual accompaniment
• Etc.

Becoming a collaborator at the Lausanne University Hospital means benefiting from:

• Top-tier 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 salary and 25 days of vacation per year
• A right to at least three days of training per year, with access to a varied offer within the CHUV Training Center and partner training centers of the State of Vaud
• Facilitated access to one of the 500 furnished apartments offered in the surrounding neighborhoods
• Social, cultural, and economic benefits offered to members of the H-Oxygène association
• Benefits within the mobility plan (discounts on public transport subscriptions, promotion of "Mobility" vehicles, and discounts on the purchase of electric bikes)
• Quality hotel-style company restaurants in each hospital building with preferential rates.

Contact and application submission

Contact for information about the position: Mr. Alexandre Lopes, Deputy Director of Nursing at the Department of Medicine, phone 079 556 21 01

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

If you have difficulty applying, you can consult our procedure on how to apply online. If for technical reasons you cannot 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 collaborators, we pay attention to different life paths and do everything possible to ensure equal treatment and avoid any discrimination. We look forward to receiving your application.

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