Director of Nursing at CHUV (12812-IN-100-2025)

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Director of Nursing at CHUV

We are looking for our next Director of Nursing (80 to 100%).

As a member of the CHUV Executive Committee, you play a key role in steering, monitoring, and implementing our strategy and major projects, particularly in the field of care and its organization. As a bearer of an innovative vision, you assume an essential role in driving the evolution of care in relation to the needs of our healthcare system while ensuring efficiency. You contribute to clinical excellence in care and guarantee quality and safety for our patients, within an interprofessional approach.

Context

The University Hospital of Vaud (CHUV) is an internationally recognized institution known for its care, research, and training activities.

With more than 12,500 employees from about a hundred nationalities and an operating budget of two billion Swiss francs, CHUV is a key healthcare player in Vaud. Its values are competence, empathy, creativity, responsibility, and transparency.

The Nursing Directorate (DSO) of CHUV is an essential component of institutional management, ensuring innovative development, coordination, and quality of care within all clinical departments of CHUV.

With more than 5,200 professionals, this Directorate includes, besides management, nursing and assistance staff, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, social workers, educators, spiritual companions, and volunteers.

Mission

• You assume hierarchical and strategic responsibility for the organization and functioning of health and social work professions within CHUV, ensuring their quality, efficiency, and availability
• You advise and assist the General Management in its ongoing responsibilities, particularly in the fields of care and social work, and actively contribute to institutional strategy
• You guarantee institutional coherence of organization and care practices across all CHUV departments
• You ensure representation and promotion of care and social work within the CHUV Executive Committee and with cantonal or national authorities
• You oversee skills development, continuing education, and applied research in nursing, therapeutic, and social fields
• You promote collaborative leadership based on responsibility, innovation, and recognition of professional skills
• You actively contribute to the development of interprofessional work and the quality of comprehensive care for patients and their relatives.

Profile

• You hold a Master’s degree in nursing sciences or an equivalent qualification
• You have advanced managerial training at DAS level
• Ideally, you hold a certificate as an expert in intensive care, anesthesia, or emergency care, or a DAS in a clinical specialty
• You have proven experience in strategic management of large-scale care teams within a major hospital center
• You have at least 10 years of clinical practice in the field of care
• You master management and analysis tools and have an excellent understanding of hospital and budgetary issues
• As a committed personality, you demonstrate strategic vision, strong leadership, influence, communication, and collaboration skills
• You are recognized for your rigor, integrity, ability to unite, and willingness to innovate in the service of patients, relatives, and teams
• You are able to express yourself in English and German

We offer

Becoming a collaborator at the University Hospital of Vaud 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 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: Ms. Claire Charmet, General Director of CHUV, at 021 314 14 01 or Mr. Vincent Adatte, Interim Director of Nursing at CHUV, at 021 314 18 37.

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.

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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