Deputy Head of Maternity Ward (certified midwife MSc)
Zurich
Key information
- Publication date:20 September 2025
- Workload:100%
- Place of work:Zurich
Job summary
Welcome to your new workplace at Spital Zollikerberg! Join our team in a supportive and collaborative environment.
Tasks
- Assist in leading the maternity care team effectively.
- Ensure high-quality care for mothers and newborns.
- Participate in quality improvement projects regularly.
Skills
- Must have a diploma as a Hebamme MSc and relevant experience.
- Strong leadership and organizational skills needed.
- Excellent communication and teamwork abilities required.
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Welcome to your new workplace.
Monika Stirnimann offers you a position immediately or by arrangement as
Deputy Head of Maternity Ward (Certified Midwife MSc)
If you also want to make a difference in people’s lives, these are your tasks:
- Deputy head of maternity care
- Personnel management and development of subordinate employees
- Ensuring efficient organizational structures in the organizational unit (personnel deployment planning)
- Participation in quality circles and projects
- Promotion of "nursing development" in cooperation with the head of nursing and nursing expert
- Ensuring a high quality of care provided
- Execution of controlling functions in the organizational unit
- Interprofessional work in the reference system (daily responsibility)
- Care of postpartum women with their newborns, patients with high-risk pregnancies, and gynecological patients
Become part of our women’s clinic, which lives interdisciplinary and interprofessional collaboration on equal footing. The innovative obstetrics clinic works closely with the neonatology clinic. The individual needs and well-being of families are always our top priority.
Get a first impression of your new workplace in our 360° tour .
To make you feel comfortable with us, many benefits await you. To name just a few:
- Own pension fund with employer’s over-obligatory contribution
- Eco bonus of up to CHF 650.– per year
- Free use of the fitness room on the premises
- Generous financial and time support for further training
This is how you convince us:
- Degree as certified midwife MSc (e.g., Master of Science in Midwifery FH or equivalent degree)
- Several years of professional experience in obstetrics, ideally on a postpartum ward in an acute hospital
- First leadership experience in a comparable role or willingness to take on leadership responsibility
- Strong social and professional competence as well as high resilience
- High customer and service orientation, combined with team spirit, flexibility, and sense of responsibility
- Enjoyment of interdisciplinary and interprofessional collaboration
- Willingness to actively shape processes and further develop care quality
- Confident appearance, strong communication skills, and solution-oriented thinking
For further information, please contact Monika Stirnimann, Head of Maternity Nursing, T 044 397 23 49.
We look forward to your online application.
We want to fill this position with direct applications without the support of recruitment agencies. Thank you very much in advance for your understanding.
About Zollikerberg Hospital #LI-PZ1
We stand for a comprehensive range of services and strong cooperation partners. With a public service mandate and 173 beds, Zollikerberg Hospital contributes to the optimal medical care of the greater Zurich area. More than 11,000 inpatient and 75,000 outpatient patients of all insurance classes feel comfortable and in good hands with us every year. Our broadly positioned basic care includes internal medicine, gynecology and obstetrics with neonatology, general surgery, an interdisciplinary emergency center, as well as orthopedics with specialized spinal surgery.