Head of the Care Department 80 – 100%

About the job

About the offer

Join the Lavaux Hospital, a modern and integrated regional center, recognized for the excellence of its local care, its specialization in geriatrics, rehabilitation, and specialized palliative care, and its commitment to innovation and quality.

We are looking for our Head of the Care Department, a member of the management team and a key strategic player, responsible for the quality of care, team stability, and the development of practices, at the heart of an ambitious institutional project serving patients, staff, and the community.

Your responsibilities

Strategic leadership and care governance

• Carry the vision of care and deploy the institutional strategy by integrating innovation and skills development.
• Manage all care activities (inpatient and outpatient) with rigor, efficiency, and quality, in close collaboration with the medical staff and support functions. Identify opportunities for evolution by improving patient pathway efficiency and supporting the growth and quality of services.
• Establish transformational leadership promoting interdisciplinarity, team engagement, and clinical excellence, referencing the leadership model of swiss nurse leaders.
• Implement standards and obtain Pathway to Excellence® accreditation.

Organizational and financial management

• Ensure strategic, organizational, and budgetary management of the scope (rehabilitation, palliative care, medico-therapeutic activities), guaranteeing efficiency, safety, and resource control.
• Actively contribute to the development, implementation, and evaluation of the establishment's project.
• Coordinate and support the appropriation and integration of the new hospital by the teams, ensuring organizational coherence, professional adherence, and process optimization.
• Develop internal skills, organize succession, and guarantee business continuity.
• Simplify processes and create conditions allowing teams to fully focus on care.

Performance, quality, and data

• Ensure compliant, structured, and secure clinical documentation supporting quality, continuity of care pathways, and risk management.
• Manage the implementation and optimization of the Electronic Patient Record and transform activity data into strategic management levers.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, professional responsibility, and collective learning.

Partnerships and attractiveness

• Develop patient–family partnerships based on co-construction and lived experience.
• Strengthen regional anchoring and actively contribute to the institution's influence and attractiveness.
• Maintaining professional association engagement is encouraged, with a view to network development, political-professional monitoring, and continuous integration of innovations and sector developments into daily practice.

We offer

At the dawn of the opening of our new hospital in spring 2027, we invite you to join a founding project: to help bring to life a completely redesigned work tool, where the human experience — for patients as well as staff — is at the heart of priorities, where team well-being is a lever for performance, and where sound financial management sustainably supports our future development.

Required skills

• Holder of a Master of Science in Nursing (MScSI) with confirmed clinical expertise in rehabilitation, long-term care, outpatient, palliative care.
• Mastery of professional frameworks, regulatory frameworks, and quality standards applicable to care.
• Solid understanding of clinical processes and patient pathways, with the ability to analyze and optimize care flows.
• Ability to plan, coordinate, implement, and evaluate health service improvement measures at a strategic and operational level.
• Management training.
• Knowledge of new technologies (automation, artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, foresight) is an asset.

Human and relational skills

• Experienced leader
• Strong facilitator role.
• Ability to mobilize, inspire.
• Promoter of interdisciplinary work.
• Service orientation, patients and staff.