Team Leader Health Service / Certified Nursing Specialist mbA 80 - 100%
Kanton Zürich
Zürich
Key information
- Publication date:15 December 2025
- Workload:80 – 100%
- Place of work:Zürich
Job summary
Join the team at Gefängnis Zürich West for a fulfilling role! Enjoy a dynamic work environment and benefits.
Tasks
- Lead a motivated team with innovative management principles.
- Ensure comprehensive health care for inmates, including prevention.
- Organize and manage medical consultations efficiently.
Skills
- Required: Experience in healthcare, ideally in a leadership role.
- Strong interpersonal skills and team collaboration.
- Fluent in German; additional languages a plus.
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At Zurich West Prison (GZW), we serve the population 365 days a year and 24 hours a day. Our tasks and challenges are diverse, but we master them together as a team. To complement the health service, we are looking for you immediately or by arrangement.
This is your field of activity
- You are the motivating head of a team and lead it according to our innovative leadership principles – experimenting, letting go, trusting
- As a team leader, you are responsible not only for the medical, dental, psychiatric, and psychological basic care of the inmates but also bear professional responsibility for health promotion, infection prevention, and hygiene
- Your organizational expertise is demonstrated in the efficient planning and execution of somatic, psychological, and psychiatric consultations to ensure comprehensive basic health care for the inmates
- By actively contributing your expertise and participating in decisions within the management team, you significantly contribute to the development of the health service and the GZW
- As a decisive personality, you support the recruitment of new employees and actively shape the team
- Promoting smooth collaboration in an interdisciplinary treatment and care team is in your hands. You are the central contact person for internal and external partners on health-related matters
- Your responsibility also extends to medication management and the careful handling of medications to ensure safe and effective care
This is what you bring
- You appreciate working in an interdisciplinary and dynamic environment. With training in psychiatric or somatic health and nursing (DN II, HF, or FH), you bring the required expertise
- You embrace a role model function: you promote a culture of mutual support and shared learning through your behavior, are solution-oriented, and approach conflicts constructively
- You bring extensive experience in acute care, ideally in emergency or psychiatry. It is advantageous if you have already held a leadership position
- You can express yourself very well in written and spoken German. Additionally, it is beneficial if you are fluent in at least one other language to ensure effective and intercultural communication
- In challenging situations, you keep a clear head and demonstrate psychological resilience. Your willingness to work shifts makes you a valued team member
- With a minimum age of 25 years, you bring not only professional competence but also a certain life experience. Your impeccable reputation, without entries in the criminal and employment register, underscores your integrity and trustworthiness
This is what makes this position special
- You take on meaningful, responsible, and demanding tasks in a lively and unusual work environment that promises variety
- Look forward to challenging and exciting activities embedded in a team full of motivation and diversity. Here you will find an inspiring work environment where joint commitment and collaboration are central
- Benefit from employment conditions that comply with cantonal guidelines
- Furthermore, we offer extensive internal and external training and continuing education opportunities to promote your professional development
- Our location in Zurich is optimally connected by public transport to enable convenient commuting
- With us, you have 24/7 access to a fitness area – the ideal opportunity to stay active at any time and promote your well-being
Your application
Would you like to help shape and further develop the GZW and the health service? Then take the next step with us and send us your application via our online tool. We look forward to your energetic support!
We are committed to prejudice-free application processes and therefore ask you to refrain from including a cover letter and photo in your application.
If you have any questions, please contact Eleni Vantsia, Head of Health Service GZW, at 043 257 33 18. Questions about the application process can be answered by Laurine Savoy, Recruitment & Assessment Team, at 043 258 34 59.
More information about our recruitment process and employment at JuWe can be found at Working at JuWe | Canton Zurich (zh.ch). We do not use the support of personnel service companies for filling this vacancy.
