Universitätsspital Basel
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Head of Nursing (Women’s Clinic) 80-100%
- Publication date:27 November 2025
- Workload:80 – 100%
- Place of work:Basel
Job summary
Join the USB team as a leader in the Women's Clinic, shaping care! Enjoy a supportive work environment with great benefits.
Tasks
- Lead strategic, organizational, and clinical responsibilities in the clinic.
- Enhance clinic development focusing on quality and patient-centered care.
- Manage nursing staff and ensure high-quality care delivery.
Skills
- Master’s degree in relevant fields and extensive leadership experience required.
- Strong leadership and communication skills are essential.
- Innovative thinking and decision-making abilities are crucial.
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About the job
What you can achieve
- You share the strategic, organizational, and nursing professional responsibility for the Women’s Clinic together with the medical and business management
- You actively shape the further development of the clinic from qualitative, economic, and patient-centered perspectives
- You lead the nursing management level with six direct and around 150 indirect employees and promote a high-performance and appreciative leadership culture.
- You ensure high-quality nursing care and promote evidence-based nursing practice
- You are responsible for the nursing budget of the Women’s Clinic and optimize resource planning and control in close interprofessional collaboration with nursing and midwifery management
- You take over the bed management of the Women’s Clinic and ensure efficient occupancy
- You continuously establish, evaluate, and improve processes and structures in terms of efficiency, economy, and quality
What you bring with you
- Completed HF/FH nursing diploma as well as a relevant master’s degree (e.g., nursing science, healthcare management, advanced practice nursing)
- Several years of leadership experience in a complex, highly specialized hospital environment, ideally in gynecology/obstetrics
- High leadership, communication, and change management skills
- Decisiveness and implementation orientation
- Enjoyment of interprofessional collaboration and cooperative work at eye level
- High innovation power and strategic thinking in a university environment
Your benefits at USB
- Attractive salary policy and excellent social benefits
- Discounts in shopping, sports, and leisure
- Support with relocation and apartment search
- 25 vacation days plus 5 additional flexible days off
- Support for further education and career planning
- Campus in the heart of Basel and the tri-border area
- Comprehensive childcare options
- Free sports and exercise program
About USB
There are many reasons to join us: Working at USB primarily means being part of a dedicated team of over 7,500 employees from around 90 nations. Our lively everyday life is characterized by pioneering research, top-level medicine, and knowledge transfer at the highest level. Added to this are a modern corporate culture, interdisciplinarity, inspiring innovative power, and diverse training and development opportunities.
Would you like to help shape the hospital of the future with us? Then become part of us! #TeamUSB
