Certified Nurses for the Palliative Care Service

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Certified nurses for the Palliative Care Service

To complete our team, we are looking for certified nurses at an activity rate of 80% to 90% for the Palliative Care Service. Start date: November 1, 2025.

Context

The Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) is one of the 5 Swiss university hospitals. Thanks to its collaboration with the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne and EPFL, CHUV plays a leading role in medical care, medical research, and education.

Following an expansion, the service will have 14 beds in single rooms and is located at Beaumont Hospital.

The mission is to improve the quality of life of patients and their relatives.

Palliative care encompasses a set of somatic, psychological, social, and spiritual approaches aimed at helping seriously ill adults of all ages to live as well as possible, as long as possible, in comfort. Families and relatives are integrated into our care. Our team consists of doctors, nurses, nursing assistants, psychologists, spiritual assistants, physiotherapists, dietitians, liaison nurses, and social workers.

Mission

• You are responsible, within your own role, for identifying, planning, executing, and evaluating nursing care in the preventive, curative, palliative, and educational fields for the patients under your care, respecting professional standards and the rules in force within the institution
• You are responsible for performing delegated medical acts and, in this context, you may delegate acts dependent on your own role and ensure responsibility for them
• You actively participate in welcoming and supporting patients and their relatives, as well as in organizing work and ensuring the smooth running and continuity of the Unit's activities (for example during evening or night shifts)
• You participate in supervising and evaluating students and interns and integrating new collaborators
• You contribute to an interdisciplinary approach to care and teamwork.

Profile

• Holder of a HES nursing diploma (or equivalent title as well as Red Cross Recognition, mandatory)
• You have proven experience in acute care
• You have experience in this sector (mandatory)
• You hold a CAS in palliative care, an asset
• You have excellent interpersonal skills, a sense of contact, and team spirit
• You collaborate easily within a multidisciplinary team
• You have analytical and synthesis skills, a sense of responsibility, good adaptability, and are well organized.
• You possess qualities such as empathy, kindness, and a great sense of listening
• You manage stress well
• Proficient in common computer tools
• Fluent in spoken/written French (level C1).

We offer

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

• Top 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 salary and 25 days of vacation per year
• A right to at least three days of training per year, with access to a varied offer within the CHUV Training Center and partner training centers of the State of Vaud
• Facilitated access to one of the 500 furnished apartments offered in the surrounding neighborhoods 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 bikes)
• Quality hotel-style company restaurants in each hospital building with preferential rates.

Contact and application submission

Contact for information about the position: Mr. Alexandre Lopes, Deputy Director of Nursing of the Department of Medicine: 079 556 21 01

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

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 need 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.

We kindly ask placement agencies to note that applications submitted directly on our recruitment platform by them are not accepted and cannot be invoiced. Thank you for your understanding.