Qualified Nurse (HF, DN II or FH) as a Relief Worker for the Night Shift

About the job

Qualified Nurse (HF, DN II or FH) as a Relief Worker for the Night Shift

The socio-pedagogical-psychiatric model ward SOMOSA offers an inpatient 6- to 12-month intensive treatment programme for 14- to 18-year-old clients who are in a severe adolescent crisis. The aim of the treatment is to stabilise the clients' personalities to such an extent that they can cope upon discharge within the existing supportive or substitute socialisation systems.

As a recognised listed hospital in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry and as a youth home with a socio-pedagogical mandate, we fulfil both requirements through long-standing, intersystemic collaboration in the specialist fields of social pedagogy, nursing, psychotherapy and work therapy.

We are looking for a qualified nurse (HF, DN II or FH) as a relief worker for the night shift

by arrangement

Your area of responsibility

• Together with your colleagues on the night shifts, you ensure the clients' night rest in our residential groups. The two residential groups for male clients, each with 10 rooms, are combined at night; the residential group for female clients, with one group of 10 and one of 4 rooms, is located in another building, a 5-minute walk from the main house.
• Thanks to your professional qualifications and experience, you are able to provide security and competently assess delicate situations.
• In case of need, you act confidently and solution-oriented, alerting the on-call service in the house or external support.
• When everything is quiet, you carry out, in addition to regular rounds and safety checks, medication checks and other tasks delegated by the day service.
• If young people work externally, you wake them in the morning and take care of them as far as necessary.
• Contact with the treatment team of the day services is maintained through daily morning and evening handovers.

You bring with you

• Qualified nurse HF, DN II or FH with a focus on psychiatry
• Experience in the inpatient adolescent psychiatric field and/or in dealing with socially maladjusted young men and women
• Desire and physical ability to work regularly at night
• PC skills: Word, Excel (pure application)
• You are at least 28 years old

You can expect an exciting workplace from us as well as

• A collegial and open team
• Additional on-call service during the night
• Internal and external training opportunities with time and financial support
• At least 25 days of holiday
• Internal social events for employees
• Pension fund affiliated with the "Pensionskasse Stadt Zürich"
• The employment conditions are progressive, based on the cantonal Zurich guidelines
• Excellent public transport connections
• Free parking spaces available
• Eulach park area in the immediate vicinity
• Further attractive fringe benefits

Application deadline and further information

Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis

For verbal enquiries, Ms Anja Tanner, Team Leader Night Shift and Nursing Department, will be happy to assist you. Telephone 052 244 50 00

Please send your written application with the usual documents preferably by e-mail: personal@somosa.ch

or by post to

Model Ward SOMOSA

Personnel Department

Zum Park 20

8404 Winterthur