Co-Head of Specialised Unit

About the job

At the Meiringen Private Clinic, people with all forms of mental illness find admission, treatment, and care. The third largest psychiatric clinic in the canton of Bern is open to patients from all over Switzerland and abroad and is responsible for inpatient psychiatric basic care in the eastern Bernese Oberland. Care and support are provided according to the current medical-psychiatric and nursing knowledge.

The Meiringen Private Clinic, as a member of the "Swiss Leading Hospitals", is one of the leading private clinics in Switzerland.

The teams with the focus on acute admission, both open and protected, care for people with illnesses from the entire spectrum of psychiatry who require extensive psychiatric-psychotherapeutic treatment. The protected unit has a 24-hour emergency admission obligation. The service mandate is based on the latest scientific findings in an individually defined treatment and care process. Psychosocial reintegration is regarded as a primary treatment goal.

Your tasks

• You have the main responsibility for the organisational, personnel, and professional management of the specialised unit
• You ensure the service mandate of the unit, taking into account operational requirements and objectives
• You promote interprofessional collaboration and develop the unit in line with the corporate strategy
• You are primarily responsible for implementing patient-oriented professional nursing within the nursing process and key worker system and actively participate in patient care
• You actively shape the treatment process in interprofessional collaboration
• You ensure a high standard of nursing quality in cooperation with the nursing specialist responsibility
• You ensure the training mandate in cooperation with the vocational trainers

Your profile

• You have a completed degree at HF/FH level or an equivalent SRK recognition for foreign diplomas
• You bring experience in psychiatry and leadership
• You have completed further training at CAS Leadership level or a comparable management qualification or are willing to undertake this
• You possess strong skills in communication, organisation, and personnel management
• You have a high service orientation and business understanding, and can think and act in a solution- and process-oriented manner
• You are an independent, responsible, and resilient personality
• You practise your profession with great professionalism and commitment
• You are characterised by an exact and goal-oriented way of working
• You place great value on a collegial and social team behaviour
• You appreciate a varied work and field of activity

Our offer

• Attractive leadership position with an exciting and dynamic range of tasks
• Scope for design with the aim of merging and establishing the newly emerging acute admission unit, both open and protected, as a single entity
• Development and implementation of processes together with the head of the adult psychiatry centre
• Work usually Monday to Friday
• Attractive working and employment conditions with very good social benefits and attractive perks, such as a day off on your birthday
• Generous training opportunities
• Own daycare centre on the clinic premises
• A workplace in the relaxing environment of the Haslital holiday region
• Free parking spaces

Workplace

Meiringen is located in the heart of Switzerland, 45 minutes from Lucerne, 1 hour from Bern, 1.5 hours from Zurich.