Deputy Director of Nursing / Director of Nursing

About the job

Company Description

Treatment at the highest level, top-class medical care and support, competent nursing in a more familiar, private atmosphere with hotel comfort, dedication, conscientiousness and absolute discretion - this is what the Bethanien Private Clinic stands for. Around 340 attending physicians from various specialties ensure high-quality, integrated medical care. The most important specialties include orthopaedics, visceral and thoracic surgery, urology, gynaecology and obstetrics, gastroenterology, cardiology, pneumology and internal medicine including oncology. Around 500 children are born annually in the maternity ward. Founded in 1912, the Bethanien Private Clinic is part of the Swiss private clinic group Swiss Medical Network.

Job Description

Do you want to shape nursing not only strategically but also be present where nursing takes place daily? Do you enjoy working closely with managers and teams, tackling operational issues yourself while keeping an eye on the bigger picture?

Then we look forward to getting to know you.

For our nursing management, we are looking for an experienced and committed leader who supports our Director of Nursing and actively participates in the operational nursing routine of our clinic.

Your tasks

• You support the Director of Nursing in the operational and strategic management of the nursing department.
• You are regularly present on the wards and in the departments and know the challenges of clinical everyday life.
• You support our ward and department managers with personnel, organisational and professional issues.
• You actively help to ensure smooth day-to-day operations and handle short-term operational challenges.
• Together with the management teams, you ensure high nursing quality, patient safety and efficient processes.
• You accompany change, quality and digitalisation projects and implement them together with the teams in practice.
• You promote an open, appreciative and binding collaboration between nursing, medical staff and other professional groups.
• You deputise for the Director of Nursing during their absence and assume the corresponding leadership responsibility.

Qualifications

• Completed nursing training (HF/FH) with further management qualification (e.g. MAS, CAS Leadership in Healthcare)
• Several years of leadership experience in acute care, ideally in a comparable position
• Enjoyment of an operational leadership role close to nursing practice
• Sound knowledge of the Swiss healthcare system as well as quality and process management
• High social competence, assertiveness and communication skills
• Strategic thinking as well as pronounced organisational skills
• Structured, solution-oriented and resilient personality
• Language skills: French, Italian and English

You are part of the operational activities, help shape them and can achieve immediate impact.

We offer you a responsible leadership position with short decision-making paths, plenty of scope for design and close cooperation with the nursing management and our interprofessional teams.

Interested?
Then we look forward to getting to know you and developing nursing at the Bethanien Private Clinic together with you.

Additional Information

• A warm, collegial working environment
• A varied activity in cooperation with many specialist areas
• Interdisciplinary teamwork
• A familiar, personal working atmosphere
• Development opportunities within the clinic as well as the Swiss Medical Network
• Support for individual training wishes
• Numerous discounts (see here ), including a rich lunch buffet for only CHF 5.-
• Discounts via Benefits at Work
• Full coverage of daily sickness allowance insurance
• Various employee events such as summer party, birthday and Christmas gifts, etc.
• Free breakfast, coffee/tea