Chief Nursing Officer (CNO)

As a member of the executive management, you actively shape the strategic development of the hospital and take overall responsibility for the strategic and operational management of the Nursing and Accommodation department. With the transfer of nursing staff from Medicine and Surgery to the Nursing and Accommodation department, an important development step will be implemented from 1 January 2028. You will design this new organisational structure together with the clinical departments and contribute to successfully establishing the new nursing organisation. Furthermore, the areas of nursing development, aftercare management, guest service, patient disposition, sitting watch pool, as well as the telephone switchboard and information, fall within your area of responsibility.

This role offers you great scope for creativity: as a member of the executive management, you shape the development of the entire hospital, establish a new nursing organisation, and can consistently integrate nursing quality, workforce, digitalisation, and interprofessional care. Together with a committed leadership team, you will have the opportunity to sustainably further develop nursing and patient-centred care at a major Swiss centre hospital.

We offer attractive working conditions, opportunities for flexible work, comprehensive training and employee benefits, excellent social benefits, as well as an open and inclusive corporate culture.

Who we are

Your tasks

• As a member of the executive management, you share responsibility for the strategic, organisational, and economic development of the entire hospital and effectively bring the perspective of nursing and patient-centred care into corporate management
• You take overall responsibility for the Nursing and Accommodation department and shape the new nursing organisation with a clear transformation mandate. You successfully lead the transfer of nursing staff from Medicine and Surgery together with the clinical departments and establish a sustainable, interprofessional leadership and collaboration culture
• Together with your team, you strategically develop nursing strategies and care models as well as nursing, quality, and care concepts, consistently aligning them with patient safety, cost-effectiveness, and innovation
• You manage personnel, financial, and operational resources based on clearly defined quality, performance, and efficiency indicators
• Together with the Chief Medical Officers (CMOs) and other key persons/departments, you further develop interprofessional care models and patient processes
• You drive the digital transformation of nursing forward and use technologies, data, digital systems (e.g. HIS, LEP), and nursing science findings purposefully to relieve staff and further improve quality, patient safety, and productivity
• Together with HR and the clinical departments, you further develop the nursing workforce strategy and create attractive conditions for the sustainable recruitment, retention, development, and needs-based deployment of staff. In doing so, you promote contemporary professional roles, career models, as well as further education and training
• You lead your team in a goal-oriented manner, promote its development, and are responsible for recruitment and personnel decisions
• You represent nursing in specialist committees, maintain cooperation with educational institutions as well as with upstream and downstream health institutions and authorities

Your profile

• You have a solid nursing education as well as a university degree and/or a proven management qualification at university level
• You bring several years of leadership and management experience in a demanding nursing or healthcare organisation and have demonstrably successfully managed major organisational changes
• You are a credible and inspiring leader with high change and implementation competence. You win people over to common goals, develop leaders, and provide orientation even in challenging change processes
• You combine nursing expertise with entrepreneurial and business thinking and convince through decisiveness, performance orientation, and a consistently solution-oriented attitude
• You lead and communicate on an equal footing across professional and hierarchical boundaries and further develop consistently interprofessional care together with the CMOs and other leaders

Please send your application to VERUS Advisory AG, whom we have commissioned. Guido Meyer and Sarah Calvi are happy to provide you with further information at +41 44 545 80 80.

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