Community Health and Care Assistant for Maternity

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Community Health and Care Assistant for Maternity

The Prenatal Unit of the Maternity Department of the Women-Mother-Child Department (DFME) at CHUV is looking for a Care Assistant (ASSC) with a workload between 80 and 100%, for a start date from 1 July 2026 or as agreed.

Context

The Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) is one of the five Swiss university hospitals. Thanks to its collaboration with the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne and EPFL, it plays a leading role in the fields of care, medical research, and education.

The Women-Mother-Child Department (DFME) brings together the Gynaecology, Obstetrics, Neonatology, Paediatrics, and Child and Adolescent Surgery Services. More than 1,500 professionals work daily to provide comprehensive care for women throughout their lives, as well as for children from birth to adolescence.

The CHUV Maternity, level 3, has more than 200 caregivers (midwives, ASSC, and care assistants) and handles approximately 3,200 births per year. It has a state-of-the-art technical platform allowing the management of high-risk pregnancies, complex situations, as well as physiological follow-ups.

You will work in an environment that promotes teamwork and interprofessional collaboration, closely linked with doctors, midwives, nurses, and the entire perinatal network.

Mission

• You ensure the execution and monitoring of delegated activities
• You perform, under delegation, medico-technical acts in stable situations that do not present an emergency character
• You carry out administrative and logistical tasks, mainly related to the patients you care for
• You support the patients entrusted to you and assist them in daily life activities when their autonomy is limited.

Profile

You hold a Federal VET Diploma (CFC) as a Community Health and Care Assistant

Experience in the maternity sector is a definite asset

You are a dynamic, committed, motivated person with a sense of responsibility

You have knowledge of institutional software (Soarian electronic patient record), an advantage

• You have an excellent command of the French language, both spoken and written.

We offer

• A varied activity focused on personalised patient care
• An active role within the medical-midwife-nurse team
• Work within a dynamic team

Becoming a collaborator of the Lausanne University Hospital means benefiting from:

• First-class social benefits, 20 days paternity leave and 4 months maternity leave (with the possibility of an additional month of breastfeeding leave)
• Regular salary progression adapted to responsibilities
• A 13th month salary and 25 days of annual leave
• A right to a minimum of three training days per year, with access to a varied offer within the CHUV Training Centre and partner training centres of the Canton of Vaud
• Facilitated access to one of the 500 furnished apartments offered in the surrounding neighbourhoods for people relocating to Switzerland from abroad
• Social, cultural, and economic benefits offered to members of the H-Oxygène association
• Benefits offered within the mobility plan (discounts on public transport subscriptions, promotion of "Mobility" vehicles and discounts on the purchase of electric bicycles
• Quality staff restaurants in each hospital building with preferential rates.

Contact and application submission

Contact for information about the position: Ms Suzanna Trancoso, ICS, at 021 314 96 91

As all our applications are processed electronically, we kindly ask you to apply exclusively online by clicking the APPLY button at the bottom of the advertisement.

If you have difficulty applying, you can consult our procedure on how to apply online. If for technical reasons you cannot apply online, we invite you to contact our Recruitment Unit, which will assist you in your process, either by email at e.recrutement@chuv.ch or by phone at 021 314 85 70

As part of the recruitment process for this position, if hired, you will be required to provide an original criminal record extract. You will also be asked to present your original diplomas and an identity document.

CHUV applies the highest quality standards in its recruitment processes. Furthermore, committed to promoting diversity among our collaborators, we pay attention to different life paths and do everything possible to ensure equal treatment and avoid any discrimination. We look forward to receiving your application.

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