Thun
11 hours ago
Specialist in Positioning Care 80-100%
- Publication date:19 November 2025
- Workload:80 – 100%
- Place of work:Thun
Job summary
Join our efficient surgical team at Spital Thun, where you’ll thrive. Enjoy flexible leisure options in beautiful nature and lake regions.
Tasks
- Ensure proper patient positioning for various surgical specialties.
- Operate and monitor technical devices during procedures.
- Apply casts and splints directly in the OR area.
Skills
- Experience in patient positioning or willingness to learn.
- Team-oriented with strong communication skills.
- Physically fit and capable of manual tasks.
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About the job
Depending on your level of experience in positioning and in the specialist fields, you will be comprehensively introduced to our very efficiently functioning OR world. Afterwards, you will be responsible for the correct positioning of patients for their specific operation in all specialist fields (orthopedics, spinal surgery, visceral surgery, gynecology, urology, ENT). During the procedure, you operate and monitor the technical devices used and the Phoenix. Additionally, you are responsible for the application of plaster casts and splints directly in the OR area.
Entry immediately by arrangement.
How you become part of our team
- OR positioning course (advantageous) with experience in positioning care or willingness to complete the OR positioning course
- Experience in the mentioned specialist fields, with technical devices and the Phoenix is advantageous
- Willingness to work shifts
- High sense of responsibility, initiative, and flexibility
- Very team-oriented, communicative, flexible, manually skilled, and physically fit person with very good German communication skills
What awaits you
- Intensive interdisciplinary collaboration with all professional groups in the OR environment
- Reception and preparation of patients in the operating room
- Manual, technical work on patients
- Good introduction to missing specialist fields and/or technical devices as well as the Phoenix
- Usually one positioning care specialist per OR room
- Flexibly selectable vacation and pension fund model
- Attractive leisure opportunities in lake and mountain regions
If you have any questions, Bruno Berger, team leader of plaster and positioning care, is available by phone: +41 (0) 58 636 26 96.
A job with prospects: At Thun Hospital, in addition to the state-of-the-art infrastructure and a versatile activity in a family environment, you will also find the possibility for flexible leisure activities in the surrounding nature and lake region. Are you looking for meaningful but also fair work? Then you are in the right place.
