Deputy Ward Manager

Riehen

Key information

Publication date:24 December 2025
Workload:100%
Place of work:Riehen

The Adullam Foundation is a leading institution for geriatric medicine, therapy, and care in Northwestern Switzerland. It operates a hospital and an affiliated care center each in Basel and Riehen. The approximately 800 employees offer elderly people a regionally unique comprehensive care from acute medicine through rehabilitation to transitional and long-term care. Holistic care at Adullam includes a high quality standard, lived humanity, and great respect for old age.

Good geriatric care thrives on relationships.
Good leadership creates the framework for this.
Taking on leadership or growing into it intentionally, both are welcome.

Are you a qualified nurse with a special heart for elderly people?
Do you already have leadership experience and want to contribute it in a professional, humane environment?
Or do you want to specifically develop into a leadership role – well supported?
Then you are right with us.

Deputy Ward Manager

70 - 80%

| Location Riehen

Your Role

Together with the team, you ensure high-quality, individualized care for elderly patients

You are responsible for the nursing diagnostic process according to NANDA

You meet patients and relatives with respect, patience, and professional presence

You support the ward manager in daily operations and leadership matters

Depending on experience, you already take on leadership responsibility or are gradually and supportedly built into this role

You actively contribute to interprofessional collaboration as well as continuous improvements (Lean Management)

What You Bring

Completed training as a certified nurse HF or health and nursing professional (D)

Joy in working with elderly people and interest in geriatric care

Either: existing leadership experience

or: motivation and willingness to take on leadership responsibility

An empathetic, reflective, and reliable personality

Good communication skills and team orientation

Very good German language skills in spoken and written form

Applications from persons without formal leadership experience are explicitly welcome

What we offer you:
A role with real scope for design and a clear function as deputy
Individual support: tailored to your leadership experience and development goals
Close, partnership-based collaboration with the ward manager
Further training and development opportunities in leadership and geriatrics
A respectful working environment focused on quality, relationships, and collaboration

Why this role?
Because good leadership in geriatrics is not loud but mindful, clear, and humane. And because development succeeds best when it is supported.

We look forward to your application!

For further information, Sandra Pfammatter, Head of Nursing Riehen,
phone +41 61 266 60 01, is gladly available.